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Border Deal with No Wall
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Fact and Fiction:President Trump took his fight for his border wall to El Paso in a big rally last night as congressional negotiators announced they had reached a deal on border security. The deal, according to The NY Times,provides $1.375 billion …
Talks Fail and Shutdown Looms
Monday, February 11, 2019
Border Breakdown: Talks about paying for border security broke down yesterday as Democrats insisted on a limit to the number of illegal immigrants detained in the US. They want to cap it at the number of beds available, which would be …
Virginia Real, Five Minutes is Up
Saturday, February 9, 2019
The Virginia Mess: Amidst a political mess in which three top Virginia political leaders have been involved with incidents of white men wearing blackface, the politician under the most pressure to resign today is the one who’s actually black. A second …
Tabloid Blackmail, Going Big Green
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Scandal Sheets: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s also the owner of The Washington Post, has gone public with what he describes as attempted extortion and blackmail by The National Enquirer, whose publisher David Pecker is a close friend of President Trump. Bezos …
The Virginia Mess, Presidential Harassment
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Something About Virginia:In a deepening scandal embroiling the top figures in Virginia’s government, the state Attorney Gen. Mark Herring admitted that he too once dressed in blackface while he was a student at the University of Virginia in 1980. Herring was …
State of Disunion, The Darwin Report
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The State of Disunion:President Trump insulted his Democratic opponents at lunch then called for political unity last night. He said in his State of the Union message, “We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless …
The Turning Point, Chaos in Richmond
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
State of the Union: With the credibility of his presidency on the line over his fight for a border wall, President Trump is under pressure to give the most convincing speech of his life tonight as he delivers his State of …
Patriot Dynasty, An Eye on Iran
Monday, February 4, 2019
Dynasty: In a largely defensive game, the combination of coach Bill Belichick, quarterback Tom Brady, and placekicker Stephen Gostkowskilast night won the 6thSuper Bowl in 18 years for the New England Patriots. New England 13, Los Angeles Rams, 3. Brady said, “Everybody …
Game Day, Memory Lapse
Sunday, February 3, 2019
LIII:It’s a big day in football. The oldest quarterback to start a Super Bowl is up against the youngest, the oldest coach against the youngest, and it’s Tony Romo’s first appearance as a Super Bowl analyst. In just two years …
Blackface and a Robe, The Water Girl
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Blackface:Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing demands for his resignation after someone dug up his 1984 medical school yearbook featuring on Northam’s page a picture of a man in blackface next to someone in a hooded Ku Klux Klan robe. …
