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TRUMP’S ANTI-SEMITISM
Once again, as he does on a daily basis, Trump booby-traps truth and logic, this time by daring to claim that a No vote to Trump is a vote against Israel. How dare this fairground monstrosity impugn American Jews this … Continue reading
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IT’S ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM
In Willa Cather’s “Training for the Ballet: Making American Dancers,” a piece she wrote in 1913, she interviews Mme. Pauline Verhoeven, the new director of the Metropolitan Opera’s ballet school, who says that “High-kicking is not only ugly and disgusting … Continue reading
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IT’S TIME FOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN TO GO INTO ASSISTED LIVING
Addled, living in a dream world, Sen. Feinstein continues to insist that there is no threat to voting rights in this country, and announces that she opposes ending the filibuster, that ensuring that her party and its leader will accomplish … Continue reading
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BARR & TRUMP’S FIFTH COLUMN REMAINS IN PLACE AT THE DOJ
Is Attorney General Garland going to continue to allow Barr’s traitorous goon squad at DOJ to subvert justice and democracy?
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APPALLINGLY BIPARTISAN
It seems that the major priority of the bipartisan gang’s new infrastructure proposal is to continue to shield incredibly profitable corporations from paying taxes.
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EPAULEMENT
and so much more. Watch this and swoon: Alla Shelest coaching a young dancer in Les Sylphides. “It’s everything I believe in in about four minutes,” a dancer told me.
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OOH! TUCKER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS COMING OUT!!
It’s called The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism. He said it; I didn’t.
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WE PAY TAXES SO THAT THE WEALTHY WON’T HAVE TO
Pro Publica has earned an award for exposing in nitty gritty granulation how toothless is the tax bite on wealthy Americans. In 40 years, the wealthy in America have succeeded in transferring the national tax burden onto the poor and … Continue reading
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MANCHIN WAITING FOR 10 GODOTS
And we all know how that turned out.
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MINORITY RULE BY PSYCHOPATHS
It dos not have to be this way. Thom Hartman clarifies who we are: “Although humans are wired for empathy, collaboration and cooperation, there is a small percentage—most estimates run between .5% to 2%—of people among us who are psychopaths; … Continue reading
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