THE WAR ROOM: Israel again yesterday widened its theater of war, bombing what it said were Hamas leaders in Qatar, the country that has hosted peace and hostage-release negotiations involving the Gaza war.   The attack endangers Qatar’s position as the diplomats …

HAVING EVERYTHING: The House Oversight Committee released files turned over by the estate of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, including the infamous  50th birthday book and drawing signed by Donald Trump that the President claimed does not exist.   The drawing is a …

TRUMPOCALYPSE: President Trump over the weekend posted of a graphic of himself with a cavalry hat in the mode of Robert Duvall in “Apocalypse Now” and the slogan, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” Of course Duvall in …

ECON 101: President Trump learned yesterday that firing the person responsible for economic numbers won’t improve them.   Hiring was down again in August, only 22,000 new jobs, and job growth is down 75 percent from a year ago. Unemployment rose to …

TO YOUR HEALTH: Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened his hearing before Congress yesterday with a combative stance on clearing the Centers for Disease Control of people who handled the Covid pandemic. “The people at CDC who oversaw that process, …

A WIN FOR HARVARD: A federal judge in Boston ruled that President Trump illegally cancelled half a billion dollars’ worth of funding for Harvard University in the name of fighting antisemitism on campus. It’s unlikely to be the last word in …

NO INVASION: A three judge panel from a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration may not invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrants without due process which has been used as a pillar of the deportation campaign.  …

TARIFFS NOT LEGAL: A federal appeals court yesterday found that many of the trade tariffs levied by President Trump were illegally applied, upholding an earlier decision by a federal trade court, yet allowing the tariffs to remain in place while the …

POOR HEALTH: The Centers for Disease Control is in a meltdown with the attempt by Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to fire the agency’s new director who was confirmed by the Senate only weeks ago.   Dr. Susan Monarez says Kennedy does not have the …

THE SHOOTING GALLERY: Two children were killed and 17 other people wounded at a Catholic school in Minneapolis yesterday before the gunman took his own life. The children killed were 8 and 10 years old and 14 of the injured were …