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Last week she asked whether our presumed new Attorney General would be questioned at this week’s confirmation hearings about his role in persuading President George H.W. Bush in 1992 to pardon everyone indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal, thus ending the … Continue reading →

The GOP senator who issued dire prophecies that Obamacare would be the end of the world is now travelling to Canada, that sinkhole of socialized medicine, for his hernia operation.

Merle Marsicano wrote in Dance Magazine in 1957: “In this strange interval, in this curious time of the dance, familiar movement may be invested with a new temporal reality. The long reach of an arm can reveal avenues of eternity—the … Continue reading →

John Bolton has got to leave government. His latest incredibly dangerous betise has been revealed: Dion Nissenbaum in The Wall Street Journal describes Bolton’s rabid campaign to bomb Iran. All we need, right? Another war. That would be, another endless … Continue reading →

I’ll give you the back story later, but this was the message on my phone machine, September 1995: “What kind of loser are you that you don’t return the call of a woman who wrote the best book on Tallulah … Continue reading →

And if you don’t believe me, read Bill Curry at Salon.

Speaker Pelosi asks Majority Leader McConnell: “Do you take an oath to the Constitution or an oath to Donald Trump?

Mired in trivia, “news” shows and “news”papers take a pass on the most urgent issues–climate change, anyone? Thom Hartman writes at Common Dreams: “Ever since the media began, in a big way in the 1980s, to ignore actual news and … Continue reading →

We have reached that nightmare dystopia.

Truly, Sen. McConnell is one of the most malevolent, destructive figures in the history of this country. He is, naturally enough, thoroughly disapproved of by the folks in Kentucky. Time for a Democratic challenger to announce herself.