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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

We really didn't want to write about this, at least not right now. People are suffering, and some of them are dying, due to Hurricane Helene. It feels vulgar to us to begin talking about the political implications of that. Unfortunately for us, vulgar is Donald Trump's stock in trade. Trump might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he knows enough to know two things: (1) He really needs to win North Carolina and Georgia in November, and (2) Helene is battering both states. So, he is working overtime to try to capitalize on this "opportunity," as he sees it. read more


Wednesday, September 25, 2024

During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of "two terrorist attacks in New York" in "recent weeks." He visited Pittsburgh and El Paso after terror attacks there. He invited survivors of a California attack to the White House. Now, though, he keeps saying he presided over no terror attacks at all. read more


The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq have "condemned the Israeli aggression on Lebanon" in a joint statement and warned that Israel is pushing the region toward an "all-out war." The ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, where they urged the international community and the Security Council to "assume their relevant responsibilities to stop the war." "Israel bears full responsibility for this deterioration, which will have serious consequences for the entire region," they said Wednesday. read more


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