Trump “again baselessly suggested” that “Biden is doing drugs” and tweeted that he “will be strongly demanding” that Biden take a drug test “prior to, or after” their first debate, Huffington Post reported on Sunday, September 27, 2020 (story here). Last month, Trump [...]
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September 27th, 2020 - 3:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump demands Biden drug test before debate
September 27th, 2020 - 3:39 pm § in Donald Trump
Trump blasts media for ignoring both of his Nobel Peace Prizes
This article is news with liberal commentary. Trump “complained at a Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday night that the ‘fake news’ completely skipped reporting his two Nobel Peace Prizes,” Huffington Post reported on Sunday, September 27, 2020 (story here). FactCheck.org ha[...]
Chinese bomb U.S. Guam base!
But only in the movies. “The People’s Liberation Army Air Force released a dramatic promotion over the weekend showing … its H-6K strategic bomber… conducting a simulated attack on an unnamed military base … identical to … Andersen Air Force Base in Guam,” N[...]
Will Red America secede?
In this essay, a liberal journalist asks a conservative intellectual probing questions about whether America has a future. I’ll start with my own caveat: No one, not even the smartest and best educated among us, knows the future with certainty. We who read about history quickly realize that ev[...]
Trump goes gutter crawling again
This article contains news with liberal commentary. Journalists are indispensable. Most of what we know about current events is because of them. Without journalists, we would only hear propaganda. Journalism has standards for truth and accuracy; it’s a noble profession. Reporters and editors c[...]
How the right smears BLM
This article is liberal commentary. This story begins with a vicious ambush of two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies assigned as transit police in Compton, California, who were shot and critically wounded by a gunman who sauntered up to their patrol car, opened fire, and then ran away on foot at [...]
August 26th, 2020 - 4:17 pm § in Misc.
Live conservative, die young
Republican policies are driving U.S. lifespans backwards, doctors’ study claims News and opinion It’s not news that Americans’ lifespans are getting shorter. That’s been circulating for a while. But now, a new study by a group of doctors, epidemiologists, and political scient[...]
August 26th, 2020 - 2:32 pm § in Misc.
Vigilantes arrive and rioters die in Kenosha
News and opinion below Protests continue in Kenosha, and a “third night of demonstrations [turned] deadly when heavily armed white vigilantes entered” the picture, Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (Read story here.) A 17-year-old vigilante from Illinois who had rece[...]
August 21st, 2020 - 5:54 pm § in Misc.
Dr. Steve Schwartz, being Jewish, and the Holocaust
This is still Steve’s blog, and I only have the privilege and duty of keeping it going in his absence. I’m not Jewish, as he was. I can’t help it; I wasn’t born Jewish. I’ve had Jewish friends and acquaintances, but I can’t say that I know much about the religion.[...]
August 18th, 2020 - 11:21 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Summary of findings of U.S. Senate Intelligence Report on 2016 Election
Paul Manafort was “a grave counterintelligence threat” — USA Today (here) 1. Trump’s campaign chairman (Manafort) consorted with a Russian spy. 2. Trump almost certainly talked to Roger Stone about Wikileaks. 3. The Steele dossier is deeply flawed. 4. At least two participant[...]