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Shutdown
As I write this, the government is hours away from shutting down. Countless federal employees whose jobs are to serve the public will be furloughed. Services will be disrupted. To take one example, the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to furlough nearly 90% of its workforce. Is the air too clean? The water and the beaches too safe? ...Read more
Beware What You Wish For
President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn't.
Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Truth Social why "nothing is being done" about James Comey, California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and New York ...Read more
Going It Alone
"The way this country works, you've got to sit down with people you may not agree with and come to an agreement, come to a negotiation," Sen. Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said on Tuesday after President Donald Trump canceled his meeting with Democratic leaders. "Donald Trump is not a king. He's the president, and he has his ...Read more
This Is Not Funny
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All Carr had to do was speak the words, and within hours, literally, Kimmel was gone from ABC, along with Disney, Nexstar and ...Read more




















