PROLOGUE I wrote the blog below late last week and didn’t submit it for editing until April 6 because of Holy Week and Easter. It explains why I think Trump felt free to attack Iran almost 6 weeks ago. Over the weekend, we saw an alarming escalation of war mongering by Trump — not ...
Donald Trump was well into his second term when I realized — belatedly — how effectively he and his puppet masters have used a strategy they devised to fool us. They called it flooding the zone; I call it political trickery. Trump crony Steve Bannon is widely credited with inventing it to advance the goals ...
Late in January, we learned that the National Park Service had begun to dismantle exhibits at the President’s House in Philadelphia. The exhibits honored nine enslaved people kept at the house by George Washington while he was president. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trump and his lackey, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, had ordered all displays ...
Amid the outpouring of emotion following the death of Pope Francis, it’s not surprising that another news story was almost overlooked: The meeting of JD Vance with the Pontiff on Easter. Their encounter tells us something we should already have known about Pope Francis and a good deal more about the vice president. We’re ...
