The Coup That Wasn’t: The website Politico has revealed the draft of a December 2020 Donald Trump executive order that would have commanded the Pentagon to seize all the voting machines in the country, essentially staging a military coup to prevent Joe Biden …

The Brink of War: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was meeting today with Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov amid fading hopes of heading off a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The US has described many Russian demands, including prohibiting Ukraine from joining NATO, as …

The Ukraine Certainty: President Biden said bluntly during a press conference yesterday that he thinks Russia’s Vladimir Putin will invade Ukraine and that the US and Western allies will be unable to talk him out of it.    “Do I think he’ll …

The Brink of War: Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to meet Friday with Russia’s foreign minister in an effort to head off what appears to be the increasing likelihood that Russia will invade Ukraine.    “We’re now at a stage …

  Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, said yesterday that, “I would hope that that’s the case. But that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response of the prior variant.” Even then, …

Red Wave:  Speaking in Arizona in his first speech to influence the mid-term elections, former President Donald Trump predicted on Saturday that “a great red wave is going to begin right here in Arizona” and vowed that “this is the year …

The Phony War: Ukraine government agencies were the target of a cyber attack yesterday in what may have been a prelude to a Russian invasion. The Russians have armor and 100,000 massed on the border and an attack on Ukrainian computer …

Stack One: Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far right Oath Keepers militia, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for his part in plotting to storm the Capitol last Jan. 6th. …

Witness to an Insurrection: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has refused to cooperate with the committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. The committee had formally requested a voluntary  interview with McCarthy, in particular about a telephone conversation he’s admitted having with then President …

Five Alarm: Nineteen people died yesterday, nine of them children, in a fire in a West Bronx apartment building.   Another 44 were injured, 13 of them critically, after the occupants of the third-floor apartment where the fire started left in a …