Donald Trump still insists that his free speech "rights" must be inviolate while he bellows out dog-whistle calls for violence against the court he is answering to.
What is American exceptionalism really? We have been the bastion against fascism for the world. But the Donald Trump plan to Make America Great Again will end our democracy and replace it with a fascist state.
The big question about our nation's Capitol is whether it is our seat of government or a middle-school playground at recess, with the same old posturing by bullies and covert elbow-jabs to the kidneys.
Trump and his henchman, Steven Miller, have been open about their plans if Trump is reelected. These plans include mass roundups and vast concentration camps to hold people for deportation. Sound familiar? It should.
We have a constitution that does not allow laws that apply to the Black race, but not to the White race. So why do we have states passing laws that only apply to women?
If Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2024 and takes power in 2025 and starts carrying out the plans he has already announced, he will not allow himself to be voted out of office in 2028.
The contrast between World War II photos and two of the Jabalia Refugee camp in Gaza are evidence of what international law now defines as a nation acting in its own defense.
It turns out that Netanyahu was like George Bush at his Texas ranch on August 6, 2001 when he blew off a CIA report that was headlined, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
The calculus of invasion is grim in the extreme. If Israel launches an all-out invasion of Gaza on the ground, complete with infantry, tanks, artillery, and air support, thousands will die, both Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians.
Meadows was in the West Wing during the entire assault on the Capitol and can provide more information to prosecutors about what Trump was doing and who he spoke to as he watched the Capitol assault on TV.
Citizens of Gaza won’t be carrying Hamas flags. They’ll be wearing flip flops and loose pants and t-shirts like any other young Palestinian man in Gaza. So who do you fight?
We have no way of knowing what secrets Trump may have shared with Russian officials during his four years in office—or afterwards, given the number of national security documents he took with him when he left.
It is true that McCarthy was the weakest speaker in memory and sowed the seeds of his own destruction, but the problem with the Republican Party is larger than his fate. It is dangerous to the country as a whole.
Trump intentionally went to the one gun store in the nation associated specifically with a recent mass-killing of Black people. While mainstream media completely missed the message he was sending to his racist base.