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John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA...
I had the opportunity a few days ago to speak briefly with John Doe of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X. Doe, along with his bandmates Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebrake, after making their...
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ISIS and the Christian right are in agreement on evolution
According to CNN, ISIS has announced their K-12 curriculum in Syria, and certain elements sound surprisingly familiar. In swaths of Syria now controlled by ISIS, children can no longer study math or...
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That show you loved is back in style… The return of Twin Peaks
I know I should be writing about something other than Twin Peaks tonight, as everyone else in the world is posting their thoughts about today’s big announcement right now, but there’s really nothing...
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Troll Level Expert: Lured to Texas, two would-be jihadists die within seconds...
As we discussed most recently in regard to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, I feel very strongly that nothing should be off-limits to satirists. With that said, however, I find something...
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Trump, having given racists permission to come out of the closet, now tells...
Since we had our discussion a week or so ago about the circumstances within the Republican party that made Trump’s ascent possible, and whether or not the comparison to Hitler is justified, quite a bit...
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Running out of things to say about mass shootings… well, almost
I tried to write something last night about the Orlando shooting that just left 50 people dead, but I gave up an hour or so into it. I’d sliced my hand open earlier in the day while working on the...
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“Before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic...
Not only is Obama was “the founder of ISIS“, but, according to Rudy Giuliani, who was the Governor of New York when the 9/11 attacks took place in 2001, no terrorists had successfully struck the...
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We found the leaker, and it’s Donald Trump… By passing highly classified...
I know this will be outdated within five minutes of my having posted it, but HOLY SHIT… Not only did Trump invite Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Putin’s Ambassador to the United States...
View ArticleIn epic asshole fashion, Lindsey Graham promises to reopen the investigation...
I could write about any mumber of things right now, like the long overdue passing of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, or the fact that Trump and DeVos are pushing for deep cuts to public school programs,...
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Confronted by numerous new revelations concerning his administration’s...
Now that all of the confusion over Trump’s mysterious early morning tweet has been cleared up by Sean Spicer, who explained to the American people that ““a small group of people” who knew “exactly...
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Trump blindsides Congress and U.S. military commanders, announcing that...
This past March, Donald Trump threatened to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. “We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon,” the President said. “Let the other people take care of it now.” Well, today,...
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Trump’s unilateral decision to pull out of Syria sends Defense Secretary Jim...
Today, in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprise decision to pull American troops out of Syria without first consulting either our allies, or our military leaders in the field, Defense Secretary Jim...
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If we “defeated ISIS in Syria,” how is it that they killed four American...
Remember how, just before Christmas, Donald Trump announced that he’d decided to pull our troops out of Syria without having run it by either our allies or our own military leaders? And remember how,...
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Notes taken during the May 10, 2017 meeting between Trump and the Russian...
On May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the man who, up to that point, had been leading the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Trump, the...
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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: Appeasing Tyrants, Freeing terrorists and Endangering...
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what...
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Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and...
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