It was a very non-slow news week, but journalists in New York and DC could not resist a good scandal about one of their own.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Israel has not taken responsibility for any of the explosions in Lebanon and Syria but they are obviously the work of Israel’s Mossad, its intelligence agency which also carries out military operations and assassinations.
The realignment of the Republican Party that appears to be underway, even before they know for sure that Trump will be gone, has a long way to go.
Vladimir Putin is a classic paper tiger. He’s trying to rattle sabers he doesn’t have and making threats he can’t carry out.
At some point, the U.S. is going to have to take the gloves off and allow NATO and the Pentagon to fully equip the Ukrainian military with everything it needs to defend itself.
Donald Trump went toe to toe with a woman who could put him away with a smile. The looks Vice President Harris shot at Trump were pure kryptonite to his lies.
By any rational measure of who won the debate tonight it was Kamala Harris. It is of course unknown at this point if she will get a “bump” in the polls that derives from Trump’s display of rank insanity on the public stage.
We do not take seriously that it was completely legal for a boy’s father to go to a gun store and spend $1,500 on an AR-15 and give it to the boy for Christmas, apparently without a thought about what the boy might do with the weapon of war.
We have a monster in our midst. We are trying to bar that monster from the White House as we did in 2020, but even if we succeed, he will not be gone, not in person, nor in the excretory politics he has encouraged among the citizenry.
New indictments spell out the elaborate measures Russia has taken to establish propaganda channels to interfere with this year's elections. Luckily this year the indictments came before the voting, not after.
There are too many guns. There is too much access to these guns by young men with a fight to pick against the world and a nearby school for a place to start the fight. There is way, way too much apathy about it.
Trump never understood John McCain’s heroism because he didn’t understand its source: the oath McCain took to support and defend the Constitution.
Every time you think Trump can’t go any lower with his lies and outrages and moral degradation, he comes up with a new low. This time he has chosen to denigrate and dishonor soldiers who served their country, some of them sacrificing their lives.
The most important territory Ukraine now occupies is inside the head of Vladimir Putin. It’s driving him crazy that Ukraine has successfully invaded his country, a disaster that hasn’t happened since World War II.
The story of Trump's visit to and abuse of Arlington National Cemetery is still alive three days later. Is there a way that Donald Trump can dig this grave for his campaign any deeper?
Trump has called fallen soldiers suckers and losers, and has mocked others captured in war, so one would expect nothing less than him giving a thumbs up to the grave of a fallen soldier.