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Any Price: A Backwards Justification
This was an old conversation from several months ago, when Trump’s department of war crimes in collaboration with another war criminal, Netanyahu, suddenly decided that after totally “obliterating” the entire nuclear capability of Iran a few months earlier, somehow it was only two weeks away from making a nuclear bomb, and that the only way…
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Reflecting on the Reflecting Pool
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro moved to dismiss a felony vandalism indictment against the former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn. Her office stated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage was due to a botched contractor installation, not vandalism. This is after so much fanfare and headline-grabbing statements in press conferences by Pirro assuring that there was…
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Senate Confirmation Hearings
I’m tired of seeing the Democratic senators asking, during their confirmation hearings, Trump’s sycophantic nominees for cabinet positions or federal judgeships or other important positions of power, that “who won the 2020 presidential election,” only to hear the rehearsed response that Biden was certified as the president in January 2021, or more recently, even outright…
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Bias Blinds
Sometimes ago, a friend of mine expressed, with awe and astonishment, that during the Iranian uprising of 2009, he had witnessed very smart and knowledgeable colleagues support Ahmadinejad. And wondered how it would be possible for someone capable of solving very complex problems in their field of expertise, to not see through the deceptions and…