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Trump, circling the wagons, forces out McMaster, and brings in John “The...
Six days ago, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders assured us that Donald Trump had no intention of firing national security adviser H.R. McMaster. Today, however, Trump did exactly that,...
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I hereby officially withdraw my Nobel Prize nomination for Donald “There is...
A Trump-suporting relative of mine pretty much told me not too long ago that, if my son lived into adulthood, I’d have Donald Trump to thank for it. He said this in response to my criticism of Trump,...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in France with Donald Trump
There are a lot of reasons not to like Donald Trump. Some, admittedly, are better than others. Today, I have a really trivial one to add to the list… Given his antics in Europe right now, he’s forcing...
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Trump says Mueller shouldn’t testify, as the administration moves toward war...
Under oath last week, Attorney General William Barr told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had “no objection” to Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifying before Congress. And, a few...
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Stand up to the Republican suicide cult, join the Climate Strike
We’re fast approaching the global climate strike. While events around the world are going to run for an entire week, beginning on September 20, and running though the 27th, it looks as though most of...
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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: Appeasing Tyrants, Freeing terrorists and Endangering...
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what...
View ArticleOf course we’re going to war
News has just broken that the Trump administration, without any congressional debate, has assassinated Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force. I hate to think it of my own government,...
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Why take out Soleimani now?
I posted something here last night about the assassination of Iranian general Qassim Soleimani. In that post, after having said what a terrible man that Soleimani was, and acknowledging that he likely...
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There was never a plan for navigating the aftermath of Soleimani’s killing
As it’s been reported that, several days before the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump had told members of his Mar-a-Lago golf club that his administration would soon be...
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My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist...
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