What the Hell Is Hegseth Up To?
The one thing we know about next week’s secret meeting of generals and admirals is that nobody seems to know anything about it.
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The one thing we know about next week’s secret meeting of generals and admirals is that nobody seems to know anything about it.
It helped build America and it lives still in our DNA — and in my DNA.
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Years of fragile democracy, weak institutions, and deep inequality created a tinderbox that ignited earlier this month.
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If Tom Homan did not accept a $50,000 bribe, and his encounter with federal agents is on tape, surely “the most transparent administration in history” will release that exonerating evidence any moment now.
We left “double standard” a couple hundred miles back there in the dust.
“President of Peace” Donald Trump on Saturday directed thinly veiled threats of force at two US adversaries. Also, if you missed having US troops in Afghanistan, you may be in luck!
I read his whole 85-page $15 billion claim so you don’t have to.
When more “reasonable” is actually more dangerous.
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‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’: Just about every day Jeff Bezos’s once estimable newspaper slips further away from its alliterative motto.