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Trumpʻs electoral "mandate" is actually a modest plurality. More people voted against him, than for him. Three times now! It turns out the mandate is

Some of Trump’s appointments are getting swatted and receiving bomb threats. Whoa! Do we really want to poke that bear? If we stoop to

All manner of sycophants have been swooping into Mar-a-Lago to crawl and bow before the Orange Overlord, and to beg for employment. Trump aide

The proposed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called Covid a manufactured conspiracy and advocated ivermection and hydroxychloroquine as

Surely you’ve seen the photo. If not, it’s here. Forcing conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer Bobby Junior to eat MacDonald’s, food that a few days

Trump and Musk: a match made in hell, and consumated—continuously—in public. This bromance of “equals” is doomed‘cause Elon and Trump can’t be groomed.One day each

Republicans are elbowing each other in the rush to bend a knee to Emperor Trump. But it’s not enough—now he wants recess cabinet appointments,

Opinion writer Dana Milbank said of Trump’s leadership picks so far: “His administration is going to be just as incompetent as it was last

Trump actually won the popular vote, and you can cry or you can laugh…or in my case, write limericks. I plan to do this

By Steve Schlich — Tim Walz was not the first to label Donald Trump “weird.” That honor falls to, of all people, George

By Ernest Kearney Playwright Pamela Eberhardt has written a funny comedy that conceals, beneath the laughter, a very vicious “Bouncing Betty.”

By Ernest Kearney - The Great Biden/Trump "Liar-Liar, Pants on Fire" 2024 Scorecard Game at last!

By Ernest Kearney — Sadly, violence is all too often mistaken by the weakest among us as strength. Then, should they turn

By Ernest Kearney  —  The service held at the Washington National Cathedral this past December 10, for the late Senator Bob Dole, wielded a

By Ernest Kearney — A friend poised a question to me. She had encountered, in a brief stretch of time, three people who launched

By Ernest Kearney — First of all, I don’t expect you to read this letter. Truthfully, I don’t expect you’ll ever be aware it

By Darwyn Carson — Aren’t we tired of this yet…? I s’pect there are plenty out there who are. I can feel the ‘bubble-bubble-toil

by Ernest Kearney — Everyone should read Montaigne;* though he wrote nearly 500 years ago, there is hardly a writer today who speaks with

I’m an Angry White Man, with a twist: I’m angry at other angry white men. You’ve seen and heard them: they add “only” to

By Ernest Kearney — Now reading this, don’t go assuming that I’m just a left-leaning GOP-basher of long standing. Once upon a time, shortly