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WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge.

That's ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell we're burning in now. His grade: F.

One man has ...Read more

You probably won't believe this, boys and girls, but there was a time when government regulatory officials believed it was their public duty to -- get this -- serve the public!

How? By enforcing laws intended to protect consumers, workers, the environment and other targets of raw corporate greed. Today, though, far-right plutocrats behind ...Read more

No one has been more famously obstinate about disregarding the truth when it interfered with a preferred narrative than the otherwise obscure Republican congressman from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, who made it plain in 1974 that he didn't care a whit about President Richard Nixon's guilt. "Don't confuse me with the facts," Landgrebe said when ...Read more

Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December.

There are several reasons American automakers pulled back from an ...Read more

A grieving mother had her children ripped away without warning in the wake of a family tragedy in Georgia in July 2024. After her son died by suicide, the state obtained an emergency order to immediately remove her surviving children -- with no notice, no hearing and no finding that the children were in any danger. In the same state, a ...Read more

If you want a one-word answer to how the president is approaching this election, I'll give you my favorite. Kentucky. That's it. He has exactly one public event scheduled on Saturday -- a rally in Kentucky. Kentucky, a state that President Donald Trump carried by 30 points two years ago. Kentucky, a state he handily carried in 2016 and 2020. ...Read more

Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter is sad for America. Not because it wouldn't have been a gruesome spectacle that eroded whatever is left of the country's international standing -- it would have. Not because Nidal Hasan won't still be killed on Dec. 3 -- he will.

"Many very good and ...Read more

I thought the University of Louisville had listened.

Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, a historic Olmsted-designed park at the edge of campus. The community pushed back, and the idea seemed to disappear.

Then, in August, U of L President Gerry Bradley listed Stansbury Park ...Read more

Please note: This column was written before the cancellation of the livestream. But they're bound to try it again.

"'What makes you look so white, so white?' said Files-on-Parade.

"'I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch,' the Colour-Sergeant said."

Rudyard Kipling, the racist poet of the British Empire and the writer of the made-into-...Read more

About three weeks before Republicans expect an electoral beating, Donald Trump had to get rid of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece. He simply had to.

Trump's money-grabbing corruption was wearing thin even on devoted fans, but the president knew how to wrap his mob-like patter in foggy euphemisms and double meanings.

Guilfoyle was...Read more

It was Katie Zacharia's first day as White House Press Secretary and it may be the only time I'll defend her. Not for just reading a prepared eight-minute homage to her perfect King, or only taking three questions (from Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail), but from the question raised by the Daily Mail's senior political correspondent, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Something told me to get me over to East Potomac Park before Donald Trump destroyed it.

Sure enough, I did, on a rainy Sunday morning, for a rally to protect the waterfront parkland from his axe. On the next weekend, he cut down 430 trees -- for a fancy golf course, of course. He sneakily started on a Saturday morning on the ...Read more

Years ago, a Texas lawmaker got caught using his official position to enrich himself by taking money from special interests, in exchange for voting their way. The culprit did not deem this as corrupt, but just the normal ethic of an enterprising business transaction: "I seen my chances," he explained, "and I took 'em."

This is the Clarence ...Read more

America has been disgraced by the Oval Office's current occupant in ways so numerous as to bring sands on the seashore to mind, but warranting special recognition is his relentless effort to sell Ukraine down the river. Since it invaded Crimea in 2014 and then with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has killed or wounded over ...Read more

We've seen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lifting weights in snug Levis, sweat pouring down his naked muscled chest. Last February, the secretary of health and human services was "giving body" in the "Rock Out Workout" video. A jeans-clad Kennedy flexes alongside Kid Rock in black shorts, then strips off his shirt and joins Rock in a grotto-like pool. ...Read more