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Trump Cries Foul After $83 Million Judgement

Saturday, January 27, 2024

ORANGE ALERT: Donald Trump went on a First Amendment rant last night after a Manhattan jury awarded writer E. Jean $83.3 million in her defamation lawsuit against the former president. Trump avoided insulting Carroll once again when he posted on his …

Most “Violent” Execution

Friday, January 26, 2024

MOST VIOLENT: Alabama last night carried out the first execution in the US by nitrogen gas suffocation. Kenneth Smith, 58, one of three men who had been hired to kill the wife of a pastor in 1988, was pronounced dead at 8:25 pm in …

Biden Courts Working Class

Thursday, January 25, 2024

IT’S POLITICAL: The United Automobile Workers yesterday endorsed President Biden for re-election, giving him a working-person’s boost against Donald Trump in the labor vote.  Biden calls himself the “most pro-union president in history.”    “Let me tell you something I learned a long …

Haley Wins With Narrower Loss

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

IT’S POLITICAL: South Carolina’s Nikki Haley won the first six votes cast at midnight yesterday in New Hampshire’s Dixville Notch and went on to win a psychologic victory in the state’s Republican primary by narrowing the distance between her and Donald …

It’s Haley v. Trump in New Hampshire

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

IT’S POLITICAL: Nikki Haley has been crisscrossing New Hampshire courting voters and hoping to punch a hole in Donald Trump’s political armor today in the state’s primary.   “America doesn’t do coronations,” Haley said at her first event of the day ysterday …

DeSantis Gives Up

Monday, January 22, 2024

FLORIDA RETIREE: Low on money and votes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the second nastiest person in the Republican run for the presidency, quit his campaign yesterday and endorsed Donald Trump.   This makes the Republican primaries a two-person race between Trump and …

Alec Baldwin Indicted in Set Death

Saturday, January 20, 2024

BAD REVIEW: Actor Alec Baldwin was indicted in New Mexico a second time yesterday on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust.”   The first charge, a felony, accuses Baldwin …

Uvalde Police Response a Complete Failure

Friday, January 19, 2024

COMPLETE FAILURE: A federal report on the police response to the Uvalde, Texas school massacre during which officers waited 77 minutes to enter the school a complete “failure.”   The report from the Department of Justice says, “Officers on scene should have recognized …

Widening War in Middle East

Thursday, January 18, 2024

WORLD AT WAR: Hostilities in the Middle East expanded yesterday as Pakistan carried out strikes inside Iran in response to Iranian attacks on what they said were militant camps in Pakistan. War is spreading gradually nearly every day.   The Pakistani Foreign Affairs …

Campaign Morning in Court

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

POLITICAL CHILL: Donald Trump spent the first morning of his New Hampshire primary campaign in a New York courtroom for the opening of the second defamation suit brought against him by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.   A nine member jury …