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The Wall Street Journal says the Trump/Putin peace plan is all about money. I’m shocked — SHOCKED! — that they would sell out Ukraine for 40 pieces of silver. 2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law...

Like most people, the word “woke” is oxymoronic, depending as it does on some relative lack of consciousness. Now that a “kill order” was given by Hegseth and a GOP senator is now moving in that investigatory direction, the long big sleep may be over....

Air National Guard airmen work clearing leaves and debris from McPherson Square Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with contractors (as usual). His architect has taken a step back as the president personally manages a project twice the size, and even taller than the White House itself. It’s a shopping mall...

Today it was revealed that American military forces conducted a "double tap" strike on an alleged drug running boat on September 2d. They hit the boat once, killing some and disabling the boat. However, there were survivors. They hit the boat again to...

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

Apparently, confabulating Trump thinks Somalis are Afghans, as Trump moves to suggest that Somalis in the US are a threat to national security. Money laundering threats might be a little closer to home, considering Epstein’s money laundering. Why did...

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine, crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev, has hit a dead end, The Atlantic reports. Vance bet Kyiv would cave after a corruption scandal, but Zelensky held firm. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Operational...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...