I guess all those articles and posts about Abigail failing early were based on Republican blah blah blah. Now they will say the big victory she wasn’t supposed to win is proof she is losing centrist appeal.
Democratic presidents - actually most presidents - but particularly the last three Democratic presidents - have been (egotistically?) inept at arranging a succession that empowers their party and secures its gains. In the case of Obama and Biden, with even higher stakes, history will not forget.
Anyone wanting details on why Hegseth ruling on flu vaccines is daft should read Douglas Cubbison: The American Northern Theater Army in 1776, The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force, re smallpox and John Barry: The Great Influenza, on Spanish flu. They are going to kill us all.
Best mayor of NYC in seventy.
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Kind of amazing how Ossoff went from being a no-name Hill staffer who lost an open House seat in Trump 1.0 to now being not only the sole incumbent Democrat running for reelection in a state Trump won, but also incredibly likely to win reelection.
Does anyone think NYers are anti-rich? Every New Yorker I have ever known wanted to "make it there." They are, however, royally pissed at how a few rich bastards have the fix in. And they know that if they don't change things, then they are chumps. And no one in New York wants to be a chump.
...and the Boy Scouts, and gasoline-powered cars and trucks, and NASA, and the PGA, and Dolly Parton, and Alexander Hamilton, and Costco....
Hey pollsters: Does the berserk Trump/GOP promotion of religion mean that Republican candidates are seeing serious defections over Epstein and recent Trump blasphemies?
We hear the voice of CALAMITY JANE --
CALAMITY JANE (O.S.)
What a fucking circus!
Manchester's first volume on Churchill for less than a cup of coffee. Maybe the greatest preface - "English fathers, sailing to save England's exhausted, bleeding sons" - in contemporary biography. Sadly, he didn't live to finish the trilogy. www.amazon.com/dp/B0092XHPW...
If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.
Our species isn't bound by the AI-is-Inevitable/Regulation-is-Pointless/Social Media-is-Sacred doctrines. History shows that human beings tinker, make mistakes, and solve problems. Nuclear weapons, smallpox, plague, seat belts, tobacco, biological warfare, Hitler - humanity can govern bad stuff.
If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
The gospels have Christ driving the moneylenders from the temple. But He forgave a prostitute, and tells us to minister to prisoners. And then there is the Sermon on the Mount. The Pope's not soft on crime - he just knows his Jesus. If even a moneychanger like Trump atoned, Leo would bless him.
I wish Vance well. He has a lot of practice at groveling while pretending to be brave, which pretty much defines Republican Party policy in the Persian Gulf today. Let's hope Iran gives us generous terms.
Mackenzie Gore 2026 season stats
W-L
2-0
Tied-3rd
ERA
2.76
Tied-31st
K
25
Tied-4th
WHIP
0.86
12th
Go Nats!
At a moment of maximum peril, John and Robert Kennedy chose to blockade Cuba during the Missile Crisis, instead of launching airstrikes as the military and others suggested. In addition to the danger of escalation, they didn't want their country to play the evil role Japan played at Pearl Harbor.
This guy has studied the William Donald Schaefer playbook.
If Trump is weighing the use of a tactical nuclear weapon, I hope a patriot in uniform will tell us before it goes off.
1. I know the idea of "norms" went out with Cheers and technically there's no law about presidential medical disclosures, but the White House and its doctors covering up the president's true medical condition ought to be a Watergate-level scandal
As Clarence Darrow's biographer and an individual, like him, who believes there is nothing but nothingness after death, I marvel at the NYT opinion writers, intently and rather desperately asserting today, sans proof, there is an afterlife. Jesus was a great teacher and moralist - but that's it.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post by President Trump that reads: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less.
We cannot let Trump normalize this.
We hear the voice of CALAMITY JANE --
CALAMITY JANE (O.S.)
What a fucking circus!
He should be careful with the might is right spiel, and telling great powers to cherish the oil and to go take it. Among other things, one may reach the logical conclusion that Netanyahu's Israel is the problem now - and helping Iran the solution. Because it is all just dollars and power, says DT.
If Congress and President Ford had not stepped in, the Nixon tapes and records would have been lost to Americans, and his loyalists would still be claiming Nixon was framed. But it was fully litigated and we got the records. It is pretty clear why Donald Trump wants to wiggle out of the law.
A real leader (and a savvier pol) would have gone to the Artemis blast off today instead of throwing a tantrum at the Supreme Court. It is a unique, special day of American promise in our 250th year. A smart president would be riding the moment. But DT would prefer to persecute children.
Like Abe said. “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
In this Holy Week, Pope Leo appeared to rebuke Pete Hegseth, who recently prayed for violence against those who merit “no mercy.” God will reject such prayers, the pontiff said, quoting the Bible: "Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.” (HT M Sullivan)
It appears that the Republicans (with their advantage in the SCOTUS) are repeating the liberal Democrats' mistake: they are relying on lawyers and judges to forge a friendly ruling instead of doing the hard work of persuading the voters and getting them to the polls.