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Rejoining Paris, News from Mars
Saturday, February 20, 2021
We’ll Always Have Paris: In his continuing effort to undo four years of Donald Trump, President Joe Biden formally rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and declared that the days of “America First” diplomacy are over. Unlike Trump, Biden believes climate change …
Mars Landing Miracle, Texas Crisis
Friday, February 19, 2021
Planetary Perseverance: NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars yesterday for a mission to further explore whether there was ever life on the red planet. Mars is 128 million miles from Earth. The control room in Pasadena broke into high fives and …
Texas in the Dark, Bank Error
Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Mess in Texas: As Texas struggles to turn the heat and lights back on, another winter storm is on the way. A quarter of Texas residents are under a boil water order because the water systems are down. Some are …
Trump Attacks McConnell, The Right Thing
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Dour and Sullen: Donald Trump ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Saturday speech denouncing the just-acquitted former president. Widening the growing rifts in the Republican Party, Trump said, “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican …
January 6 Commission, Family Politics
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Post Mortem: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for an “independent” commission to investigate the 6th January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump. The commission would have to be established by law. In a letter to members of …
The Schoolboy Defense
Saturday, February 13, 2021
False Equivalence: Trump defense lawyer Michael van der Veen opened his arguments saying Donald Trump did nothing to incite the Capitol riot and “Like every other politically motivated witch hunt the left has engaged in over the past four years, this impeachment …
Answering Trump’s Call
Friday, February 12, 2021
Common Sense: House managers drew a logical line between statements made by the President Trump and Capitol Hill rioters who believed they were doing his bidding and said so. “They truly believed that the whole intrusion was at the president’s orders …
The Case Against Trump
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Inciter in Chief: House impeachment managers yesterday made a compelling case that in the weeks preceding the Capitol insurrection, President Donald Trump riled up his base with groundless claims of election fraud culminating with his fiery January 6th speech and a mob assaulting …
Trump On Trial, Lost In Clouds
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Go to the Video: The Senate voted 56-44 yesterday to determine that trying Donald Trump after he’s out of office is constitutional and the trial will proceed. The vote was a strong signal for how it will go on the question …
He Didn’t Mean It, British Strain
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Fighting Words: As former President Trump’s impeachment trial formally opens today, his lawyers plan to argue that nothing he said in his speech of January 6th incited the Capitol insurrection and that Congress has no authority to put him on trial while …

