When What You Know Is Tested THE IMPACT of childhood trauma is as irrefutable as the description is vast. How it plays out in adulthood becomes the thriller Olivia's Turn. Two women under 30 enter into a fated confrontation. A father can't get peace, so he writes a letter to the producer of [...]
Trump Flames May Amid London Protests, More Russians Indicted by Mueller Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on Friday announced new charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee, the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The announcement came just a few days before President [...]
Trump Tantrum at NATO Summit graphic via Instagram President Donald Trump is set to meet Wednesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hours after he publicly claimed that the longtime U.S. ally is “totally controlled” by and “captive to Russia.” ... Trump fumed during a Wednesday meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that a [...]
Brett Kavanaugh Foreshadows 2020 In 2016, I strongly supported Hillary Clinton for president as well as President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland. But today, with the exception of the current justices and Judge Garland, it is hard to name anyone with judicial credentials as strong as those of [...]
North Korea Skewers Trump, But 'When You Want it Bad, You Get it Bad'(Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) But in fact, the outcome of this first formal effort to test Kim Jong Un’s sincerity about denuclearizing was utterly predictable. Trump’s impulsive acceptance of the first summit between a North Korean leader [...]
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Independence Day for America, Rot on the Right for Trump "At the end of the day, [House Republican Jim Jordan] is absolutely lying if he says he doesn’t know what was going on.” ... "So it’s sad for me to hear that he’s denying knowing about Strauss," he said. "I don’t know why he [...]
July 4th, Our Country Callsgraphic via Twitter, origin/artist unknown According to Becker, turnout rates dropped by 1.3 percent in Iowa, 3 percent in Wisconsin and nearly 4 percent in Ohio in 2016, a combination that became a death knell for Clinton’s presidential hopes in areas where Obama performed well during his two terms. [...]
"It was always more fan fiction than reality that Justice Anthony Kennedy was a moderate centrist. ... The man who wanted everyone to speak to one another civilly and respectfully did what everyone else has done this year and threw in the towel." - Dahlia Lithwick [Slate] Kennedy Retires, It's Midterm War LIBERTARIANS [...]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Victory Stuns Democratic Elite NO TIME for white men in the Democratic Party. A former intern for the great Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and with degrees in economics and international relations, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slapped the crap out of the Democratic establishment. After her opponent Representative Joseph Crowley, an elite incumbent who [...]
