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Weapons Make the War

“One war over, Netanyahu heading to D.C.,” Minnesota Star Tribune, July 7. If a super-superpower did a “war” upon the U.S., and the U.S. was defenseless to the …

Dress Code Dictators

The obsession with uniforms in schools is nothing but an authoritarian shortcut to control, suppress, and mold young minds into flesh-and-blood robots. We’ve been brainwashed for years to …

Rectify Disparity Amongst Nation’s Wallets

Professor Robert Reich’s double-column history (August 2025 TPP) of how the “Demos” ditched the working class neglects to mention blundering Bill Clinton’s ill-advised …

Trump’s Pardon Scandal Reporting: Who Makes the Grade?

Having been a two-term elected prosecutor, I am well qualified to judge the theft, shakedowns and especially money for presidential pardons during Trump’s first six months of his second term. …

Our Expiring Empire

Thank you to Don Rollins for helping to sound the alarm on the decline and fall of this empire’s manifest destiny (“A Nation in Decline: Somebody Has to Break the News,” September …

Trump Pokes Pointed Sticks in Our Eyes

USA operates the best observatories in the world, on ground and in space, that study our planet, Earth. That’s about to change. Trump’s budget, passed by the Republicans in Congress, …

Wastefraudenabuse

“Wastefraudenabuse,” a.k.a. “wastefrausenabuse.” I have been hearing this semantic flash-bang grenade all my life from pols running for office. And guess what? When they got …

By Any Other Name

According to the dictionaries, “trump” means overbearing falsifier/swindler and is a corruption of triumph, fittingly suggesting that the unholy “First” Family’s dumping …

Patterson’s Love for FBI Shows Is Naive

Contrary to Mr. Patterson’s effusive and embarrassing praise of the disturbing proliferation of FBI dramas over recent decades, permit this 40-year criminal defense attorney to disabuse readers …

Don’t Make Our Nanny Flee

My granddaughter, Sarah, just graduated high school.   She’s a good student, raised by two “mothers” who have given her a bright future.   When Sarah was a toddler, her …

What Republican Party?

The Republican Party was formed in 1853, mainly to oppose the spread of slavery and the states’ rights argument that allowed for it. But since the Civil War was fought and the Union restored, …

The Great Sucking Sound

“The three greatest untruths are lies, damnable lies, and statistics.”—Mark Twain On April 2, a.k.a. “Liberation Day,” Donald Trump launched a tirade against the world …

ABC’s Terry Moran Fired for Honesty

If you want to work as a journalist for ABC, then you had better not speak out honestly. Long-time ABC correspondent Terry Moran was suspended then fired for doing just that. A more perfect …

The Problem With Equating Presidents

Our mainstream media distorts the view of our dire situation by often reporting on the new Trump administration as just more usual political news. I never expected Ted Rall to contribute to this …

We Need Good Jobs

Thanks, Thom Hartmann, for your fine article (“The great MAGA job scam: How Trump is plotting the new American sweatshops,” June 2025 TPP). Of course the corporations want many poor …

Our Own Gaza

Few would doubt that the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza represents one of the worst atrocities in human history. It is shocking for the drawn-out, almost casual nature of its bloody cruelty, …

‘Preventive War’ No Excuse

The bombings of Iran by Israel and the United States were illegal according to international law. Though our political class and mainline reporters tout ‘preemptive war,’ it doesn’t …

Homeland Security Starts at the Press Conference

Give the Bimbo a break. She no longer is in a position to use her rifle and gravel pit to promote her image of being a “Bad Ass Babe.” So when someone shows up atone of her press …

Farm Workers Far From ‘Border Crisis’

Trump is considering letting undocumented migrants who are farm workers the right to stay in the United States. Trump doesn’t even realize when he blows himself up. Do you need to see …

Gun Rights … And Wrongs

According to Everytown Research (5/9/24), a gun is stolen from a car, often unlocked, every nine minutes in the US. In the last 10 years, gun thefts have tripled. Cities in states like Florida, …

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