By Michael Jay Tucker Okay, so, apologies to H.G. Wells. Food of the Gods was one of his novels, you see. But “Clods,” as in lumps, globs, dullards, twits, and idiots is a bit more fitting for this particular tale. That’s because it involves Alex Jones, the belligerent boss of Infowars. And to explain why…

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And from around the web, we have all sorts of interesting stories this week. Presented, now, for your consideration… Wondering why it is that Trump supporters seem to ignore reports of his obvious corruption and incompetence? Well, says the Washington Post, it seems that in a recent poll, half of all Republicans said that the…

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    So, here’s news of interest. We now all know that Michael Cohen, Trump’s expensive lawyer and buck-passer, is going to take the fifth in the lawsuit brought by “adult entertainer” Stormy Daniels. At least that’s what the Washington Post is saying in a recent article (Michael Cohen to invoke Fifth Amendment right in…

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 Donald Trump seemed happy this week as he entertained French President Emmanuel Macron, consistently getting so touchy feely about procedings that Macron made a joke about it. Again: Trump is too handsy for THE FRENCH.  Perhaps this is due to an overall lack of physical contact, because one person who sure as hell won’t touch…

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Trump has been saying that he didn’t stay overnight in Moscow in 2013, which was during the Miss Universe pageant. That’s important because it relates to the infamous reports of a “pee tape,” and/or other less than savory activities in which he may have engaged with Russian sex workers during that time. But, Bloomberg’s “Bloomberg…

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By @BossBird17 Part III: He Blinded Me with Science and Policy There are moments, especially, when I’m feeling snarky when I question the intelligence and introspective level of many politicians. Thus, I ponder the intelligence of Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who believes that the Earth was literally…

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By Michael Jay Tucker There’s an interesting article over in The Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria, The Reagan revolution is officially over. In it, Zakaria analyzes the departure of Paul Ryan and concludes that “the exit of the Wisconsin Republican … symbolizes a broad shift that has taken place within the party. It marks the…

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By Michael Jay Tucker What is wrong with the Democratic Party? Or, rather, what’s wrong with its elites? Why don’t they get it? Why do they keep screwing up? Case in point, the Party, and particularly the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), has repeatedly backed state and local candidates who don’t have the support of…

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By Michael Jay Tucker So I read the other day that three of the parents whose children died at Sandy Hook are suing Alex Jones, he of InfoWars, and the man who first widely promoted the appalling falsehood that it was all a “false flag operation,” that the dead were merely crisis actors, and that…

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By Michael Jay Tucker There was an interesting article over on the Washington Post last week, “First-time, liberal candidates are flooding the Democratic primaries,” by Kevin Schaul and Kevin Uhrmacher. It seems, say the authors, that hundreds (maybe thousands) of liberals are entering the Democratic primaries. For the first time in a long while, it…

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