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Monthly Archives: March 2025

Where to they find these people?

Sunday, March 30, 2025

One of the truly amazing things about the current Republican Party is the number of people who have been elected (or appointed) to powerful positions who are amazingly stupid. I’m not just talking about the individual who currently holds the title of President while someone else is actually calling the shots. Consider this. Congresswoman Victoria […]

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A prediction

Monday, March 24, 2025

We read here that Pete Hegseth, the totally unqualified Secretary of Defense, conducted top secret discussions on signal and looped in a reporter from the Atlantic: At 11:44 a.m., the account labeled “Pete Hegseth” posted in Signal a “TEAM UPDATE.” I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. The information […]

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Chris Murphy for President

Friday, March 14, 2025

*Before getting to the subject hinted at by the title to this post, let me say that this post will assume something that it is somewhat risky to assume: that the election held in 2028 will not be a Soviet style election in which the outcome is known in advance. The assumption will be that […]

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A harbinger

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

I think the writer at Lawyers, Guns and Money is right about this case currently at the Supreme Court, where it should not have lasted a minute: Three weeks ago a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to plaintiffs suing the Trump administration for freezing foreign aid funds that had already been appropriated by […]

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