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The Downfall of ICE Barbie
I'm the last person to defend her. For starters, I'm a dog lover and shooting a puppy you "hate" because you couldn't train her to hunt pheasant is no way to win my respect. The fact that she told the story on herself in her autobiography, presumably to polish her image as a tough leader, told me everything I needed to know. It should have ...Read more
Why?
A very bad guy is gone. We did it. Yes, we can. But was he a threat to us? Was his country? An imminent threat? Of what? Do they have nuclear weapons? How much of their capacity did we already destroy? Eliminating the nuclear threat? Regime change?
I've been listening. I listened to the State of the Union, where President Donald Trump devoted...Read more
1 Hour and 47 Minutes
It clocked in as the longest State of the Union speech in history. Probably the only prize it could win?
Nastiest? Most theatrical? Maybe.
Full of Trumpism's -- phony symbolism all about him, overblown claims and outright lies -- the usual stuff.
No, what surprised me most about the president's latest diatribe was not what was there, but ...Read more




















