Bicycle Lanes
I knew we’d be hearing from the “bicycle community” after the tragic death of pediatric oncologist Barbara Friedes in a bicycle lane, which were installed, ironically, to protect bicycle riders. Seeing a story in the Inquirer filled with advocates for more and better bike lanes was no surprise. Nor
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It’s official! 2024 has just passed 1968 as the most fucked exciting election in American history. In 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson bowed out in March, leaving lots of time for Democrats to pick another candidate. They chose the vice president, Hubert H. Humphrey. And they lost. No, I
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This is a public service, putting Project 2025 on the bullseye in the focus. You have been hearing a lot about it, and a lot of what you have heard is lies, distortions, and half-truths. Snopes takes a deep dive into the Heritage Foundation plan to reshape the U.S.
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The advance word from Team Trump was that his brush with death, and a feeling that he was spared by God’s hand, has changed him, and he rewrote the acceptance speech he had planned for Thursday night. Daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair said we may see a
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Joe Biden decides this is the right time to float the idea of Supreme Court “Reform”? As recently as last year, he opposed trying to reform the court, including by expanding the court’s membership. Now, he’s contemplating establishing term limits, an enforceable ethics code, plus some other changes,
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Thoughts while waiting for Day 2 of the Republican National Convention to begin: Donald J. Trump must be feeling lucky. On Saturday, he wins the staying alive lottery by surviving an assassination attempt by maybe an inch, and then on Monday, a friendly judge dismisses the charges of mishandling classified
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The plan was to watch the first night of the Republican National Convention, analyze it, condense it, and explain it. As Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The first punch came Saturday, with the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.
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As always, President Joe Biden’s “Big Boy” (that’s how press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described it) news conference started late. Thursday’s presser was scheduled for 5:30, but — whoops, sometime Thursday it was pushed back to 6:30. It actually began at 7:27 This White House has
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Immediately after the disastrous debate, Joe Biden’s polling numbers declined a bit, but not that much. Whew, I thought. How did he dodge that bullet? Two weeks later, the respected Cook Political Report showed that Donald J. Trump is leading Biden by 2.5% in an average of national
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Following up on the lie that President Joe Biden wasn’t prosecuted because he was too old, today we look at Donald J. Trump’s remark that if he isn’t elected, it would mean a “bloodbath” for the nation. Democrats immediately seized on the words and screamed that Trump,
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This is not a coverup for Joe Biden. I have been plenty critical of him. What it is, is an attempt to knock down a persistent and pernicious lie about two people: 1- Democratic President Joe Biden 2- Republican Special Counsel Robert Hur It is the worst kind of lying
Culture
You can learn a lot about an author from what s/he [I don’t like “they” when gender is uncertain] thinks is important enough to include on the back cover of a book. Here’s a couple of quotes from Scott Galloway’s “Adrift: America in 100 charts”: “A