Señor Trumpanzee Has No Mandate at All— And Certainly Not One To Seize Extraordinary Powers
No License To Steal & Nothing Allowing Him To Hand The Government Over To Musk Is it possible that anyone reading the Financial Times...
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Howie Klein
6 days ago6 min read
No Doubt There Is Someone Who Thought Boris Epshteyn Was A Straight Up Guy
He’s Teaching Trump Job Applicants How Washington Works In 2017 we noted that Gospodin Epshteyn— along with Carter Page and Paul...
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Howie Klein
Nov 194 min read
Even For Republicans, Cutting Medicaid & Food Stamps Is A Bad Look To Lower Taxes On The Top 1%
It matters almost not at all— unless you’re an undocumented migrant— what Trump campaigned on. Now we get to see which Project 2025...
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Howie Klein
Nov 167 min read
Trump Is Creating An Historic Cabinet— And Much Worse... And The Republican Party Is Complicit
First a little good news: on Wednesday, the Senate shut down the Republican filibuster ( 50-48 ) of Dave Huitema to be Director of the...
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Howie Klein
Sep 296 min read
How Foreign Governments Bribe The Always Avaricious Trump Family— Today's Case: The Saudi Despots
When Saudi Arabia’s de facto dictator, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, overrode his country’s sovereign wealth fund analysts who had...
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Howie Klein
Sep 274 min read
If Eric Adams Resigns Or Something, Jumaane Williams Becomes Acting Mayor!
NYC’s Progressive Mayors Since the 1930s: La Guardia, Wagner, Lindsay, de Blasio Yesterday morning, I went down a philosophical rabbit...
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Howie Klein
Sep 266 min read
Will The Best Republican Ever Be Better Than The Worst Democrat? That Was Once A Common Occurrence
Not In These Hyper-Polarized Times When I was growing up, Republican senators like Jacob Javits (NY), Mark Hatfield (OR), Charlies...
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Howie Klein
Sep 266 min read
How Disappointed Do You Feel When Democratic Scumbags Show Themselves To Be Corrupt As Republicans?
NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption has been breathtaking— the worst of the New York City anti-reformist bad old days. And last night he was...
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Howie Klein
Sep 45 min read
Why It's So Crucial To Try Our Best To Elect More Members Of Congress Like Jamie Raskin
There are 7,386 state legislative seats in the U.S., from just 49 in Nebraska, the only state with a unicameral legislature, to a massive...
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Howie Klein
Sep 17 min read
Trump, His Acolytes Plus Foreign Regimes Have Funneled Millions In Shady Spending Into His Pockets
Trump owns a majority-share of Trump Media (59%) and the lock-up period, in which he wasn’t allowed to sell his shares is about to end,...
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Howie Klein
Aug 307 min read
Klitgaard’s Formula: C = M + D - A (Corruption Equals Monopoly Plus Discretion Minus Accountability)
Looking At A Slice Of California Through That Lens Ralph Vartabedian could have just as easily written “How Texas Became a New Center of...
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Howie Klein
Aug 272 min read
Underwriting The Oligarchy— Here Are Some Of The Worst Villains... But By No Means All Of Them
If Thérèse (professionally known as Madame Defarge) were alive today— and if I had her e-mail address— I’d send her this list, knowing...
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Howie Klein
Aug 29 min read
Middle East Dictators Are Allowed To Root For Trump— But Sending Him Bags Of Cash Is Too Much
In 1969 I spent a month driving around Morocco. I took a ferry across from Algeciras in Spain to Tétouan, still part of Spain but on the...
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Howie Klein
Aug 19 min read
Not One Politician Was Charged In FTX Bribery Scandal— Now Congress Is Selling Out To The Crypto-Mob
Congress And, Of Course, Trump Sam Bankman Fried is in prison— at least for now— but the crypto-criminal Mafia he helped cobble together...
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Howie Klein
Jul 285 min read
The Marriage Of Convenience Between Trump And The Crypto-Criminals Was Always 100% Inevitable
Many people say that AIPAC— with its network of other, smaller pro-genocide committees— is the most pernicious of the PACs funneling...
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Howie Klein
Jul 258 min read
Is There Any Part Of The MAGA Agenda Trump Wouldn’t Sell Out? Does The Drooling MAGA Base Care?
Pay Trump Enough And He'll Flip Flop On Anything In 2015, one of the absurd Trump talking points was that as a billionaire he was above...
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Howie Klein
Jul 244 min read
Shame On Schumer And The Rest Of The Hypocrites In The Senate For Not Expelling Menendez
I wasn’t thrilled to read that Bob Menendez had deigned to finally agree to resign from the Senate on August 20. The members of the...
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Howie Klein
Jul 173 min read
Robert Menendez Guilty Of All Charges— He Deserves A Hanging Judge
Robert Menendez began his career as a crusading reformer who ran as a candidate of the GOP-funded Alliance Civic Association which put...
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Toon Janssen
Jul 1411 min read
The Split Life Of Prince Bernhard, From War Hero To Nazi Prince
Prince Consort Of The Netherlands, Prisoner Of His Own Myth Toon Janssen, Amsterdam correspondent Huizen is just another relatively small...
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Howie Klein
Jul 113 min read
Elect Dems If You Want Bribe-Taking Supreme Court Justices Impeached-- OK With Bribes? Vote GOP
Clarence Thomas Belongs Behind Bars, Not On The Bench Last week, while the House was in recess, AOC said she planned to file impeachment...
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