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We all have endured the long and hard fought presidential election in 2016. After such turmoil, you would think the newly elected president and the loser would be in two…

By Barry Hastings The Donald's recent cruise missile attack on Assad's military airbase in Syria was nothing more (or less) than another attempt to distract Americans from his administration's "Russian…

“All will be revealed.”  —  Anon. What’s going on with Donald Trump? He seems to lack a consistent point of view. In the last few days he’s reversed himself (walked…

Sarin gas was used in the Syrian civil war. As our own civil war will attest, civil wars are the most vicious. In ours, 2% of the entire nation died,…

Let’s talk about the use of medical marijuana. The American Cancer Society reports, “Smoked marijuana delivers THC and other cannabinoids to the body, but it also delivers harmful substances to…

Based on majority of contributing writers to this “rag” (author’s description, not mine), they are unhinged about the Trump victory in November and subsequent time in the White House. I…

By Barry Hastings "It is sad, to paraphrase the Tweeter in Chief himself, that Washington is now a city of avoidance, denial and deception." Thus wrote E.J. Dionne of the…

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” —  George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle Dick Cheney served Ronald Reagan as Secretary of Defense. Later, when George…