Happy Friday, Gentle Readers, There is an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Well, the times are interesting, much the same way people slow down to look at a traffic accident and find it interesting, but they are interesting times, nonetheless. This week, we saw further […]
The Democratic senator leading talks with Republicans on a border security and migrant policy deal has a warning for progressives: You’re not going to like it. “This agreement is not going to make everybody happy,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat. “But I hope that people will refrain from judgment until we have the opportunity […]
JOHANNESBURG — A man was arrested Tuesday and will face 76 counts of murder after telling an inquiry that he started a deadly building fire in South Africa last year while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had strangled in the apartment complex on the orders of a drug dealer. The […]
Last Thursday anarchists in Atlanta and around the country held memorials for Manuel Paez Terán aka Tortuguita on the one year anniversary of his death. It’s Going Down an anarchist website labeled it “Day of the Forest Defender.” Events were scheduled in Seattle, Portland, Boise, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, […]
As the 2024 political season starts going full swing, a new documentary is scheduled for release on Feb. 16 titled “God & Country.” What makes this movie starring mostly obscure evangelical leaders different is that it is produced by an avowed atheist: Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner. Reiner is best known as Archie Bunker’s […]
The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style” of conspiracy-fed extremism. But far more common, especially in the 21st century, has been a left-wing, hysterical style of inventing scandals and manipulating perceived tensions for political advantage. Or, in […]
Sen. John Fetterman, whose rise to Congress was thanks in part to his celebrity status among progressives, is unapologetic about his political pivot that’s driven a wedge between himself and the Democratic Party’s left wing. Source link
Discontent with President Biden among Democrats and independents is coursing through New Hampshire, where voters are flocking to younger alternatives like Rep. Dean Phillips and are even considering GOP candidate Nikki Haley in the primary on Tuesday. Source link
Every time I read an article that imagines a dystopian world if Donald Trump is elected, I say to myself, “Well, surely they’ve reached the limit of anti-Trump hysteria, right?” Not by a long shot. And don’t call me Shirley. This one on the NBC News website took four […]
BEDFORD, Pa. — For nearly two decades, every time the alarm rang out from Bedford Fire Department No. 1, people in town would say a little prayer that the call wasn’t for the old Bedford Springs Hotel — a primarily wooden structure built when Thomas Jefferson was president that was sitting abandoned just a mile […]
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