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BREAKING UPATE: As many signs pointed to the beginning of Israel’s invasion of Rafah, Hamas announced today that it has “accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a cease-fire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza.” There has been no immediate comment from Israel on the cease-fire proposal. Original Post: Note: As this article is […]

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s chances of geing Donald Trump’s Vice Presidential election are now in a political gavel pit, numerous reports say. How out of favor has she fallen? At a big Trump fundraiser last night in Florida he talked about possible veep choices and did not mention Noem. She was originally supposed to […]

For Star Wars Day 2024, this blog salutes Mark Hamill. Granted, there is more to him than Star Wars, as he explained when he appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers in April of 2019. “I love to tease the fans online. It drives them crazy. I’m sure that Disney’s not that happy about it, […]

If a play has “Trilogy” in the title, it’s going to be long. With a run time of 3 hours and 20 minutes, The Act Contemporary Theatre’s presentation of The Lehman Trilogy feels like a Ken Burns aficionado attempted to turn a ten-hour documentary into a three-act fictionalized play. The result is a densely packed, […]

Way back when I was a boy, the U.S. Supreme Court was so revered as an institution that my fourth-grade teacher required us to learn the names of all nine members. We kids could never have imagined that there’d come a day when the highest bench in the land would be so widely reviled. And […]

If you are the least cooperative legal client of all time while neglecting to pay your legal bills, then you may get stuck with a lawyer so bad that he enters into evidence that your nickname is Von ShitzInPants. That’s what happened to Donald Trump yesterday. Trump’s lawyer, Todd How-The-Fuck-Did-I-Pull-The-Short-Straw Blanche used a social media […]

Most Americans support legalizing pot. Political pundits insist Biden is courting votes by rescheduling the drug. The latest headlines and news stories channeling chart junk creators come from the Associated Press and the Washington Post. Without evidence, each claims that the Biden Administration’s rescheduling of marijuana is designed to win November votes. The implication: Biden […]

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on March 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Mario Tama/Getty Images Barry C. Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison Once again, the U.S. is entering a presidential campaign with some voters expressing curiosity about independent and minor-party candidates. None of those candidates has a real shot at victory in November, […]

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