THE AMERICAN DISEASE: Four people were killed yesterday including children ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.   This was the 433rd mass shooting in the US this year … shootings in …

TURN OF THE SCREW: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said his military will resume attacks against Russian oil and gas facilities in defiance of President Trump’s demand that he stop. He told interviewer Piers Morgan that, “It’s a pity we are losing …

NEWSPEAK: New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia came to the podium for the first time yesterday spewing scripted propaganda about President Trump’s midterm campaigning and the greatness of his administration while burying the lead that Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle …

ENEMY OF THE STATE: Agents from the Department of Homeland Security yesterday raided and searched the Washington home of Minnesota’s progressive  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in an investigation of her family’s immigration paperwork.   The raid took place well within the customary 60-day …

WIDER WAR: At least 12 people were killed and as many as 300 wounded Saturday in a missile attack carried out by Houthi rebels in Yemen against the airport in Riyadh in central Saudi Arabia. One American citizen was among the …

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: President Trump made a deal to buy Russian diesel fuel to lower prices in the US, effectively feeding Vladimir Putin’s war machine in his effort to conquer Ukraine. The deal undercuts US sanctions against Russia as Trump …

DEAD STREAM: The Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plan a public and live-streamed execution by firing squad on December 3rd for the Ft. Hood mass shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.    The military has not carried out an execution since 1961 and not …

LIFE AFTER DEATH: The lawyer for 50-year-old Christa Pike, who survived a Tennessee execution by lethal injection, said when she woke up, “Where am I and who are you?” She was in a hospital with a blood clot in her arm, pneumonia, and …

THE WEAVE: If a tree falls in the woods does it make a noise? If Donald Trump says something shocking does it still have the power to shock. It might not.   The other might in a Nebraska rally Trump was riffing …

SHIFT RIGHT: In a revival of Brazil’s right wing, Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, the son of the country’s imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro, finished well in the first round of elections and looks like he might unseat the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inácio …