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Donald Trump has been lying all his political life and much of his personal life. And he apparently doesn’t care what damage his lies do. The latest manifestation occurred June 5 when the …
Donald Trump has shown contempt for Congress, the Constitution and the rule of law in his 5-1/4 years as president. Since January his dementia has gotten worse, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
Donald Trump started the war early Saturday morning, Feb. 28, urged on by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as U.S. and Israeli forces shelled military and civilian sites in Iran, without …
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Dispatches

NEW EVIDENCE BOLSTERS CLAIM US LIED ABOUT ANOTHER IRAN AIRSTRIKE MASSACRE

New information published April 10 by the New York Times further suggests that the US military may have lied when it tried to pin the blame for a February airstrike that killed 21 people in Iran on …

AMERICANS ARE DOWN ON DEMOCRATS — UNTIL THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE GOP

You may have heard the Democratic Party is facing a crisis: The brand is weak. Poll after poll shows Americans view the party no more favorably than the Republican Party, despite the GOP having a …

JUDGE TOSSES TRUMP’S $10 BILLION WALL STREET JOURNAL SUIT OVER EPSTEIN REPORTING

A Florida-based federal judge on April 13 dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on a “bawdy” birthday letter the Republican …

TRUMP’S MILITARY MURDERS 5 MORE PEOPLE IN ‘LAWLESS’ BOAT BOMBING

The United States military has killed five more people suspected of drug smuggling in the latest boat bombing operation that many international law experts consider to be acts of murder, Brad Reed …

HUNGARIAN VOTERS END 16 STRAIGHT YEARS OF ORBAN’S FAR-RIGHT RULE

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán April 12 conceded defeat to conservative lawmaker Peter Magyar in parliamentary elections that ended 16 years of increasingly authoritarian Christian …

Manifest Destiny Revisited: Greenlanders Should Scream ‘No’

In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …
Rural Routes
Here we go again. Spring.   And while I appreciate the good weather, the green shoots that announce the coming of flowers and the budding trees, I don’t appreciate the chemical sprays …
Grassroots

Rogue Nation America

We are a rogue nation.Not just an imperialist nation, but a rogue one, imposing our will outside international norms and despite the constitutional and legal safeguards we’ve long believed …

Health Care

Cupid Needs a Public Health Backup

The Grinch axed the “have a healthy” part of the New Year greeting. We are plummeting into a maelstrom of illness. Measles is no longer rare. As for whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis, influenza, …

Satire

Hell Hath No Fury …

As the saying goes, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” nnU.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Green, stalwart Trump supporters, but …

In The Public Interest

How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country from Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship!

There are reportedly about 900 billionaires (probably more) in the U.S. About 5% can be described as enlightened people who know the importance of contributing to organizations that advance justice. …

Columnists
The Sac News shared on Facebook my column from Jan. 26 lamenting our loss of freedom, which generated a lot of insight in the comments, like “Art Cullen sits down when he pees.” That caused …
How about some good news for a change? News that has nothing to do with Donald Whatzizname. News you might even use. It’s about “The Library of Things,” a real library, but …
As the holidays descend, it’s a good time to think about our goals for 2025 and how we’ve managed to (choose one) (a) achieve them, (b) fail miserably, (c) forget or evade them.   As …
Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. …
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Poop, Pee and Petroleum in the Potomac
The Potomac River flows between Virginia and Maryland and for a few miles Washington, D.C. I have fond memories from my youth when I swam and canoed in the Potomac. So I was disturbed and …
Shouldn’t Public Protection Be For, You Know, the Public?
A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from abuse by giant corporations. But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards — using the agency to …
When Sycophancy, Incompetence Merge: FUI
In seeking never to repeat the horrors of 9/11, Congress took the step to merge relevant civilian operations – customs, immigration, airports, nonmilitary national security and intelligence. …
American Muslims Don’t Need to Defend Our Existence
The journey of my prayer rug reflects my own as a Muslim American. It has seen a lot, and despite its fraying fringes, remains resilient as ever. Praying five times each day is one of the …
Trump’s Betrayal of His Voters Is Now Complete
Signals that Donald Trump is losing his grip flash across our screens nearly every hour, but what arrived just the other day was new, different and historically significant. The moment occurred at a …
The Ages-Old Dilemma: Guns or Butter
In its program-slashing, 2027 Department of Agriculture budget plan, the White House hoped to head off sure-to-come complaints by tying spending cuts to that handy whipping boy, big bad government. …
The Fred Flintstone Doctrine in the Middle East
President Donald Trump took over the TV to tell the world that he intends to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. God Bless America. And YABADABADOO! I had been thinking that I might be …
Big Tech’s Ugly Data Centers Finally Meet the Opposition
It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don’t want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from their front porches. What’s wrong with …
To Make America Healthy Again, Break Up Big Ag
President Donald Trump has systematically broken virtually every promise made on the campaign trail to court health-focused voters. His most recent walk-backs on pesticide reform are a cruel …
Pete Hegseth: Warrior Without a War?
Nobody loves a war like “Pistol” Pete Hegseth. Dependably giddy and drunk on American military might, Donald Trump’s feckless Secretary of War (Defense) is the star of nearly every major press …
Letters to the Editor
Western Civilization Has Had a Rough Run
An ignored book worth unearthing at this traumatic time was published back in 1953, the very year Ike’s baleful pair of henchmen, the Dulles Brothers, covertly replaced Iran’s obstreperous …
U.S. is Obsessed With Iran’s Oil More Than Nuclear Weapons
Republicans have nothing left when it comes to Trump’s fake Iran “war,” other than grasping at straws. Nothing left but to try and convince us that a “war” was needed to stop Iran from …
Degrees of Misogyny
There are many intelligent, astute columnists who write for this fine and much-needed publication. Hal Crowther is my favorite and his recent piece, “Hate Males: A Gender War Warning” (June 2026 …
TDS=MAGA Ignorance
On our 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, MAGA Nation is trying to disguise criticism of POTUS #45-#47 in non-existent, make-believe medical terminology. Trump Derangement …
Boycott the World Cup
I’m a soccer fan and loved playing it in Denmark during my teens. Nevertheless, it is incumbent for us to support efforts to boycott the upcoming World Cup. However, in my opinion, it may only be …
Some Personal Gripes
1) Media: Stop using “BBB” in quotes. Say what it is — the worst budget ever. Thanks to John Young and Lindsay Kashgarian for calling it a horrible, very bad, debt-increasing bill and a big bad …
Draft Dodger Donald
There once was a draft dodger named Donald Trump the codger whose demented ramblings bore.   Trump speaks and people snore.  Trump’s lies are despised just like he is. Dishonesty …
Who’s Up for War?
We have a known sex offender in charge of the most powerful “war” weapons on the planet, carrying out another fake U.S. Mideast “war” upon defenseless people — it is 2026 and we are right …
Impeach the Madman
I am so relieved that TACO lived up to his moniker and didn’t commit mass murder today, Tuesday, April 7. Like his last ultimatum, and the ones before it, TACO talks tough then, thankfully, he …
The China Syndrome
Until the 20th Century, China was a primitive, backward society, dominated for centuries by hostile warlords, then later by Western imperial powers who carved up the country into “spheres of …
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