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What Nikki Haley left out of her answer about the cause of the Civil War
Well knock me over with a feather: The Times Trump-whisperer troika pretends they have a scoop!
From our house to your house, good cheer!
An icy night of snow and blues
The 12 immunities of Christmas
The thunderous, wondrous, revenge-packed 14th Amendment to the Constitution
The Supreme Court's long downhill slide
Fight back, Mr. President. Fight back for us.
Let me tell you about the poisoning of America
The Supreme Court goes fishing
Thumb-twiddler caucus toys with funding while Ukraine fights for its very existence
It's called the Nixon rule, and the Supreme Court should uphold it without delay
Great democracies don't fail when they are tested. We haven't before, and we won't this time either.
Lickspittle suck-a-zoid Kash Patel says the loud part even louder
How countries fall down the fascist rabbit hole
Who'd-a-thunk? Florida's Humpty-Dumpty power couple had a great fall
Ghosts of Christmas past: Aspen, 1967
What a day for the rule of law!
Let’s take a quick look at what’s under the Trump Christmas tree, shall we?
Lying, whining, thieving, lying, fraudulent, horrid, lying congressman expelled
You can't win a war by dribs and drabs
Trump: My free speech rights don't end where your body begins
Donald Trump and the end of American exceptionalism
Objective, subjective -- let's just call the whole thing off
High, wide and handsome: The John Lombardi years
It's getting nasty out there in Republican nyah-nyah land
Mr. President, our Constitution is calling
Suffering written in disappearing ink
Abortion laws: There is no male equivalent
NY Times has analyzed Tuesday's election results: Heads Trump wins, tails Biden loses
Polls, schmolls: Democrats and abortion rights won across the board yesterday
WTF New York Times? Are you really going to do to Biden what you did to Hillary Clinton in 2016?
Be afraid, be very very afraid: The phrase "regional war" is here
The rise and very fast fall of Sam Bankman-Fried-Madoff
How do you cover a war that is 5,800 miles away?
Netanyahu's excuses for bungling the intelligence on Hamas don't add up
And now for something a bit lighter: The great Garfinkel's caper
The world is coming apart at the seams
There has been another one: 18 dead, 13 wounded this time in Maine
Before the next teardrop falls
Israel and Gaza: The cold calculus of a ground invasion
One day only deal on "Dress Gray"
The latest on the al-Ahli hospital explosion in Gaza
What's up with Israel's Gaza pause?
Iran has warned Israel through the U.N. not to go into Gaza
You knew he couldn't keep his big trap shut, didn't you?
Gaza: An argument against going in
Threats of a wider war emerge from Hamas attack on Israel
At least 700 Israelis killed in Hamas attack; more than 370 Palestinians dead
Hamas launches massive suicide attack on Israel
New charges on the horizon for Trump?
Donald Trump's word is good when it comes to threats of violence and plans for fascism
Rudy Giuliani's drinking isn't funny
What did I tell you yesterday? It was a good day for Leon Trotsky and Steve Bannon
Kevin McCarthy is just a bump in the MAGA road
We have lost Ed Fancher: A memory of a great man, and of another time
There are more of us than there are of them
How's that whole law and order thing working out for you, Republicans?
New York finally caught up with Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice
Donald Trump is going to get someone killed
Guess who gets paid during the coming government shutdown? Congress.
Gen. Mark Milley has his Medal of Honor
Clarence Thomas is the worst thing to happen to this country in my lifetime
Double reversed, upside down, and backwards: Inside the new Republican politics of national defense
Extra! Extra! Extra! Lin Wood bonus lip-smacking treat!
It's almost autumn, and Trump attorney law licenses are falling like leaves
Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy: Where do Republicans get these worms?
Special Counsel Smith to Trump: Shut your Big Mac hole
Optics, schmoptics, says Judge Cannon
Election, impeachment -- election, impeachment: rinse, spin, repeat
What will World War III look like?
9/11 and the dawn of off the shelf warfare
A rainy slow news night in Milford
Bad news for Ukraine: Army finally admits Abrams tank is a dud
Enrique Tarrio sentenced to stand back and stand by for 22 years
Hey Proud Boys, was it worth it?
It's come to this: The anti-vax movement is now after your dog
Seventy-five cents okay with you?
Why is the Republican Party committing suicide?
Mark Meadows: International man of modesty
The mongo supremo indictment and a half
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!”
Indictments handed down in Georgia
Trump gets schooled on the rules faced by criminal defendants
Ukraine is fighting a war against Russian aggression with one hand tied behind its back
Some good news before you lay your head down to sleep
DeSantis new campaign strategy: Reshuffle, reboot, reload, and shift into reverse
Big storm hitting us; internet going out
You can't make this shit up: A novelist looks at Trump as a fictional character
Free media got Trump elected in 2016. Now the cable shows are doing it all over again.
The monciferous, humongous, monumental, immeasurable hole in the "free speech" defense.
They've got him: One Defendant, six Co-conspirators
Blown to bits: Warfare from gunpowder to AI
The desperation of Defendant Trump: What will he do?
What Defendant Trump does not understand
Superseding column: I read the new indictment so you don't have to
Indictment watch: Episode three
How we should talk about slavery
The distinction between a proffer and flipping just went...poof!
Post-Civil War anti-Ku Klux Klan law cited in Defendant Trump target letter
He's keeping us very, very busy
New developments for Defendant Trump, none of them nice
It's official: Defendant Trump is a target of the Jan. 6 investigation
Inside the Prigozhin-Putin relationship: I'm rubber and you're glue
President Biden has a lot to be proud of as he returns from the NATO summit in Vilnius
House Republicans vote to damage the U.S. military
Tommy Tuberville's wink-and-a-nod racism
Special Counsel investigations of Defendant Trump: let's count 'em.
Trump's big mouth is going to get him in the end
Trump promises new travel ban on Muslims
Biden just agreed to send cluster munitions to Ukraine. Was he right?
We need to rethink who our founders are
While others have fireworks for the Fourth, we had a flood
Taking the day off with kittens
Yet more evidence that this Supreme Court is the most corrupt in history
Chief Justice Roberts is a liar and a racist
What is a proffer, and why Defendant Trump should be very worried about two of them this week
What's more deadly than nuclear fallout? Political fallout, especially in Russia.
What's really going on with the new Bedminster audio tape everyone is calling a smoking gun
Odds but definitely not ends from the confusing clusterf-ck in Russia
Today's interim temporary what the hell could happen next outcome in Russia
It's never a good sign when a losing foreign war comes home
Putin's panic transforms a brushfire into a turning point
Where will Defendant Trump store his new boxes of anxiety?
Bulletin...bulletin...bulletin
Russia goes to war against itself
Procedure recovery celebration breakfast
Trump's spiral staircase: down, down, down he goes, where he stops, nobody knows
Let us now celebrate Juneteenth
Weary of political crimes and shenanigans, he said...kittens!
Are you ready for another outrage?
When T-R-U-M-P was spelled N-I-X-O-N
Try not to take it so personally
Ukraine's counteroffensive begins in earnest
38 counts and 49 pages: I read the Trump indictment so you don't have to
Finally! The Trump indictment dinner!
Now we know Trump's defense: "It was all just a big mistake!"
Trump told he is target of criminal investigation celebration dinner
Squeeze time for Orange Julius
Child abusers are organized and they live near you
Late breaking news on the Trump tape
Keeping your brain from melting and running out your ears is getting harder and harder
Curiosity Kittens of Milford: Day 26
On this and every Memorial Day, my family and I remember Grandpa
Paxton impeachment celebration dinner
What is the Espionage Act, and why is Trump likely to be indicted for violating it?
Prigozhin praises Ukraine's army and predicts "revolution" if Russia doesn't win the war
The exciting life of a young writer in 70's
Gee, I wonder who dictated this missive?
E. Jean Carroll second defamation lawsuit celebration dinner!
Hi! My name is Donald Trump and I would like to apply for membership in the Aryan Brotherhood!
News both good and mixed about Ukraine
What is the whole right-wing campaign to control the judiciary really about, anyway?
How Leonard Leo dug the right-wing's political grave 1.6 billion feet deep
Kitten watch day 12 and other news
Breaking news: Giuliani sued by former aide for sexual assault and wage theft
Special Counsel John Durham finds bupkis
Intelligence twist in battle for Bakhmut
What's up with the battle for Bakhmut?
Is Clarence Thomas the worst Supreme Court justice ever?
Santos charged by feds with same crimes Trump is under investigation for
The reign of Enterprise Rent-a-Justice
The part I took out of yesterday's column, "Notes on the state of whiteness."
Notes on the state of whiteness
Our lady of the perpetual tummy
I wish they would show the pictures of the dead
A brushfire of leaked U.S. secrets sputters out on the battlefield in Ukraine
With blood in the water and tears on the carpet, Murdoch closes the deal
Trump's entire platform is insurrection
How Rupert Murdoch began his career in ruining America
How Murdoch steamrolled Tucker
A Sunday drive in Northeast Pennsylvania
Today it gives me great pleasure...
Does any of this sound familiar?
There is no such thing as an accidental shooting
This country has fallen into a canyon between politics and reality
An unexpected development at the Harris-Truscott manse
Vindication and Accountability
Kamala Harris comes into her own
If you see one flea, the whole house is infested
Secrets, lies, and extremism: An embarrassing moment for the U.S. military
Some parts I left out of the LKTIV origin story
Another American weapon of war was used to kill five people in a Louisville bank
Leaked documents and the wilderness of mirrors
Should the Left start buying guns?
The first shot in a cold civil war
Twitter banned Substack but allowed the posting of stolen top-secret national security documents
Justice Thomas and his regular guy vacations
Key Russian war mystery solved: it's their satellites, stupid
Meanwhile, as we slept, a political earthquake hit Wisconsin
Arraignment celebration dinner!
Trump indictment and statement of facts revealed
Preliminary reporting on indictment
As he awaits arraignment, Trump is now officially under arrest in the Criminal Court Building
MTG lies; Chinese spy balloon is back; Trump is on his way to indictment in New York
Taking the night off with our newest member
"We own our children" but the state owns our bodies
It turns out Republican Congressman Tim Burchett has an answer for killings of children in schools
This is the way Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is playing the Nashville school shooting story
This is who voters in Tennessee sent to Congress to represent them
Sadly, this will be only too familiar
Three children, three adults, dead in shooting at Nashville grade school
Another spectacular Trump legal backfire
Deranged psychopath threatens violence
Neocon Iraq war supporter Bret Stephens has no regrets
Failed banks and greedy Republicans
Shock, awe, disaster and humiliation
This is not the way we do things in this country
This is the way Florida is using its attack on "woke" to whitewash Civil Rights history
A Federalist Society for all things: Dark money enters the culture wars
Arrest warrant issued in the Hague for Vladimir Putin
Trump Media under investigation for laundering Russian money
The death penalty comes to the abortion wars
Russian warplane hits U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea
DeSantis makes a pitch for Putin's endorsement
Will the battle for Bakhmut be a turning point in the war?
Republicans want children working on the killing floors of slaughterhouses
Mark your calendars. Pompeo is running for president.
Why are Republicans afraid of the free flow of information?
6,000 years of war: A brief history
A nation of enemies cannot stand
Let's give thanks to the Dilbert guy -- in a single rant, he put the lie to reverse racism
Russian terror campaign of kidnapping Ukrainian children continues
Israel is not the only country with a Supreme Court crisis
If the answer is Kevin McCarthy, what is the question?
I cannot bring myself to type the name of the subject of this column
This week in Ukraine vs. a year ago
Biden visits Ukraine while Republicans whine
It's the coverup. It's always the coverup.
There were things that happened
Hey, Trump! Be afraid...be very, very afraid.
The tangled web of Trump and Ukraine
UFO's: They're not telling us everything they know
Remember what I just said about UFO's?
In the news on Super Bowl Sunday
Putin apologist Elon Musk cuts Starlink's use by Ukrainian military
The new global electronic battlefield
SOTU: Biden laid a minefield and Republicans walked right into it.
Taaa-daaa! The counter-box compromise!
How the Durham investigation fizzled out
Does anyone have any advice...
Woodward reveals identity of Deep Stink
This is the kind of stuff that isn't worth fighting
The cost of Trump's four years of NATO niggling
U.S. to send M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine
Ukraine will get Leopard II tanks
This will turn out to be the week that was for Ukraine
Getting down and dirty with the debt ceiling
Ron DeSantis and his lethal lies
We are entering a COVID information black hole
It's a quiet MLK day here in NE Pennsylvania
Comparing the Trump and Biden classified documents cases
This is what losing looks like
"This is what madness looks like"
The fuck 'em caucus takes over
Kevin McCarthy didn't win. The mob did.
Either he had a plan or it was nerves
The steep cost of having no shame