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Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.”  Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But it leads Democrats
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It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th. Israel broke the ceasefire.  War planes filled the Gaza sky.  Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made.  Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children.   But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war.  It’s called taqiyya, a form of lying
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Why are Americans uneasy?  A year ago, in the spring of 2024, ​The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism.  Since then, things have gotten worse. Why? Because the earth seems to be shaking under our feet.  And things
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Here’s what the media is not telling you about the new Israel-Hamas peace deal. On Sunday, January 19th the new cease-fire will hopefully go into effect.  The  media is euphoric.  A hostage deal, they say, has been reached between Israel and Hamas after 467 days of fighting and 459 days of negotiating.  Peace is on the way.  But Hamas disagrees.  It
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How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News. In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations are grim.  As a
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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election.  In a landslide.   How did he do it?  And what will it mean to the country?   First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers.  Lever number one is publicity. Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of the
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The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  But is that true? In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political Report average of
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Iran and Israel are arranging their pieces on the chessboard before Israel retaliates against Iran’s October 1st attack. In that attack, you remember, Iran assaulted Israel with the biggest number of ballistic missiles in history—200 by Iran’s count, 180 by the Western media’s. On Wednesday, October 9, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his first
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