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TweetPinShareColumn By John Young They stood in a starchy semicircle, posing, preening behind their role model. They — Republican bigwigs including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Transportation …
Editorial: Systemic racism? Right now, right in the Oval Office Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb “Madam Secretary, you and the gentleman from NCTC (National Counter-Terrorism Center ) reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsman being killed.” — Miss. Rep. …
Editorial: There’s stupid & there’s super stupid Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb “The decision comes just eight months after the same council, in September 2024, voted 4-3 to increase Cassella’s salary to $190,000 annually, add a $500 monthly contribution …
Editorial: More “What’s going on here?” Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By John Young In the craft of propaganda, one of the slyest techniques is euphemism — soft words for hammer blows. “Enhanced interrogation” for torture. “Downsized” for vaporized careers. …
Editorial: The crime is the first ‘tap,’ not the second Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb “In a tense and closely divided vote Monday night, the Safford City Council terminated City Manager John Cassella effective immediately without cause, citing the terms of his …
Editorial – What’s going on? Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb “He may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” — attributed to Groucho Marx. …
Editorial: Is this the guy you’d want for president? Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By John Young The immense irony about what this president has done with the economy is that only the Supreme Court can save him — from himself. He says …
Editorial: Mr. I Alone Can Fix It owns economic debacle Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb My brief habitation in this current incarnation has convinced me of one irrefutable conclusion — my brain is dumber than my butt, and I have the …
Editorial: Fried brains, butts and bewilderment Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By John Young I saw the president call the ABC reporter “fake news.” That’s a laugh. The reporter was asking about his obsequiousness with murderous Saudi dictator Mohammed bin …
Editorial: ‘Riots!’ in Portland and fake news on Fox Read More
TweetPinShareColumn By Mike Bibb Not certain whether President Trump’s claim of accusing various members of Congress and department staff of “sedition” is valid in this particular case. — “Trump wants …
Editorial: Is It Really Sedition? Read More