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HBO host John Oliver noted that Americans are reminded daily that President Donald Trump is doing the bare minimum at being a president. This week, according to the “Last Week Tonight” host, Trump proved he “was doing the bare minimum at being a f*cking person.” Even Trump’s staff confessed that the...

We are living in an age of technological disruption, so it figures that the most important trend in international politics is the rise of disrupters around the globe. Last week’s ascension of Boris Johnson—notorious bad boy, mocker of the system that produced him, the man as responsible as anyone fo...

Kamala Harris Is Now the Candidate to Beat - WSJ op-ed By Gerard Baker Editor at Large (snip) It’s an especially curious state because I suspect that, if we weren’t all talking about the squad right now, we would be talking incessantly about Kamala Harris. There’s not much doubt that the California ...

I don't trust Harris. She keeps changing her position, depending on the wind direction. And she supported Civil forfeiture. Still am having hard time understanding how a child of two university professors in Berkeley had to be bused.. I don't think that the country is ready for a gay president. He p...

So will you please give each $5.00 just to add "unique donors?"

(And then you will have to unsubscribe when you get one or two emails a day..)

May I suggest you should at least send donations to Klobuchar and to Bullock? Jut to keep them in the race? Both are moderate, both are from the middle of the country, neither offers "freebies" with no idea how to pay for them and both won in Trump country. Certainly preferable to the &quo...

Who has left Trump's administration and orbit?

A local city council decided to not include the pledge in opening its meetings. Which, of course, Whiny Donny had to stick his neck and complain. But what I like is a letter published today in the StarTribune: In 1966 I was a temporary fourth grade teacher in Savannah, Ga., before being reassigned t...

Hey, Joe Biden, stop. Stop apologizing. Your civil relationship with former segregationist Sens. Herman Talmadge of Georgia and James Eastland of Mississippi four decades ago is nothing to regret talking about (“Biden: ‘I regret’ debate comments,” July 7). Perhaps it’s alien to a new generation, but...

Like grave robbers opening King Tut’s tomb, Congress can’t wait to get its hands on America’s retirement-account assets. The House passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act, known by the acronym Secure, in May. The vote was 417-3. The Secure Act is widely expected to pass ...

From the second installment of PBS Chasing the Moon, culminating with the description of the successful mission of Apollo 8 that left the earth orbit and circled the moon. And this, after the tragic death of the Apollo 1 astronauts where, even today, the exact reasons are not known: "Everything...

Some have already been observed: Tiananmen Square protests in April 1989 and D-Day on June 6, 1944. Stonewall uprising June 28 1969 On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles, ending WW1 was signed. Still to come: the landing on the moon on July 20, 1969 Woodstock on August 1969. Sept 1st 1939 - Hit...

Strange thing, no one knows how he made his money

Warning, do not hold a cup of coffee or other drink while watching

Looks like the air battle over Newport Beach has flared up again. In a mini-replay of recent history, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is considering expanding business jet operations at John Wayne Airport–prompting the rich folks in Newport to protest that the plan would increase noise and ai...

Investigators probing two deadly crashes of Boeing Co. 737 MAX airliners are grappling with a hybrid of old and new technology, where a complex piece of software controls hydraulic pumps and motors similar to those used when Lyndon Johnson was president. The plane, first designed in the 1960s and mo...

(snip) But the number of Americans who use cannabis heavily is soaring. In 2006, about 3 million Americans reported using the drug at least 300 times a year, the standard for daily use. By 2017, that number had increased to 8 million—approaching the 12 million Americans who drank every day. Put anot...

I am the biggest, I am the strongest, I am the... most pugnacious

PG&E Corp. equipment started more than one fire a day in California on average in recent years as a historic drought turned the region into a tinderbox. The utility’s unsuccessful efforts to prevent such blazes have put it in a state of crisis. The fires included one on Oct. 8, 2017, when nearly...

And, I don't know why we need an Executive Branch. Just put Limpaw and Coulter in charge. They are, after all.