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With each passing week, Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican-friendly colleagues bestow never-before-enjoyed authorities upon the Trump Administration. The plan seems to be — if we grant the president everything he dreams of, maybe he’ll leave the high court unmolested. The republic may fall but we’ll still have the cool robes and life tenure. John Roberts is becoming the Neville Chamberlain of post-democratic government in America. Recent steps by the Supreme Court have allowed the executive branch to decimate the Department of Education, summarily fire tens of thousands of other civil servants, permit “third country removals” to notoriously dangerous...

Lawrence O'Donnell Attacks Ann Coulter for Saying Liberals Give Less to Charity Than Conservatives By Noel Sheppard | December 22, 2010 | 00:33 Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday made a federal case out of Ann Coulter's quite accurate claim that liberals give less to charity than conservatives."The Last Word" host might have raised this issue to draw attention to a charity he's supporting (video follows with partial transcript and commentary): LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Time for tonight’s Rewrite. It all started with a column by Bill O’Reilly which included a reference to Jesus Christ’s attitude toward charity. Then Comedy Central’s theologian-in-chief Stephen...

Among the corrosive lies a nation at war tells itself is that the glory -- the lofty goals announced beforehand, the victories, the liberation of the oppressed -- belongs to the country as a whole; but the failure -- the accidents, the uncounted civilian dead, the crimes and atrocities -- is always exceptional. Noble goals flow naturally from a noble people; the occasional act of barbarity is always the work of individuals, unaccountable, confusing and indigestible to the national conscience. This kind of thinking was widely in evidence among military and political leaders after the emergence of pictures documenting American...

I can't remember the true quote so I'm gisting here, but Walter Cronkite once said that on a no-news day the media would present it to the public with the same gusto as if it were a news-banner day. Thus they fill their broadcasts with uninteresting drivel when there are very moving stories from small-town America that, as in this case, elicit heart-tugging and tears. This is the way our military dead should be honored. With all the junk on TV and all we hear about in the press, here is a story that restores faith in this country. http://members.accessus.net/~tmcdonld/lighthse/Texas.htm