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Adding Power to No Kings Protests

After the No Kings Day in October, I felt good about the local and national turnout but also had a vague concern I couldn’t quite identify until reading Greg Palast’s Substack posting on Nov. 20, …

Big Oil, Big Expectations

Big Oil contributed one billion dollars to Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign fund, with expectations that this “investment” would benefit them in future government policy. And how! For Big Oil, …

Venezuela: Stolen Fair and Square

Trump says he invaded Venezuela because they stole “our” oil! But how did “we” come to own Venezuela’s oil ? We set up local dictators who then “sold” their country’s resources …

International Law Or Invasion — Again

It would be beneficial if all disputes would look to the rule of law for solutions to problems. The situation with Venezuelan alleged drug boats is a prime example. What does international law …

What is Trump Doing in the Caribbean?

Why has Secretary of Defense Hegseth ordered our largest, most lethal aircraft carrier with supporting destroyers and guided missile ships to sail near Venezuela? Trump says it’s to stop drug …

Know Trump Through His 3,500 Lawsuits

When Trump lost the 2020 election anyone who knew Trump personally or read about him should not have been surprised but expected him to insist he won the election. In a book published in 2019 one …

Revolutionary ‘War’ Was Over Stolen Land

A recent editorial by syndicated columnist George Will has him expressing his love for the Revolutionary “War,” and what an important historical event it was. But if Native Americans …

The Fiction of a Ceasefire

On Nov. 22, 2025, Israel carried out another airstrike on Gaza, killing more than 20 people and injuring dozens. Tell me … what kind of “ceasefire” conducts extrajudicial …

Non-Functioning Government

Why can’t Congressional leaders of both parties finally admit that the main reason the government can’t function and has no prospects of working in the near future is Donald Trump – …

Common Ground on a Snow Day

Today is a snow day. I haven’t been following politics. Except for the day I saw the New York mayor elect with the president, I’ve been laying low. I must have been somewhere with …

Republican Riggers are Going to Lose

BRUCE JOFFE, Piedmont, Calif.

Trump’s Chicago Slur

MARIA ROSE, Indianapolis, Ind.

Another Golden Age is Coming for Farmers

JOHN G. RUFF, Logan Kansas

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

ED ENGLER, Sebring, Fla.

Summer of Love Revisited

Ugly street protests, demands for law and order, inflation, wars, COVID, constitutional crises—many believe the US has never encountered today’s threats to its existence. Seriously? …

Case for a New Movement

I am weary of reading and hearing the laments from progressives that the Democratic Party is not taking more vigorous action against Trump’s outrageous and illegal policies. There are a couple …

They Doth Protest Too Much

There are things in this world that are so obvious that to assert them requires no supporting evidence. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Even your mother’s love hardly requires confirmation. …

Old-School Military Ethos Not a Winner

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is extremely inept, so it is fascinating that he is fixing people that he sees as being unqualified because they are products of DEI and “wokeness,” when he …

Megyn Fox Working to Get Back In MAGA

I was channel flipping and came across a “Turning Points” convention, which was being covered by C-SPAN 2; it was a rebroadcast. Turning Points USA is a Republican propaganda organization …

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