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Lucian K. Truscott Iv

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How long till the next big crash? Because it's definitely coming

How long till the next big crash? Because it's definitely coming

Trump's crypto push amounts to betting the entire U.S. financial system on imaginary money. What could go wrong?

28.01.2025 2

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Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump’s vision of a “golden age of America” rings hollow

Listless, uninspired and robotic: Trump’s vision of a “golden age of America” rings hollow

Now Donald Trump has to meet the high expectations he’s set for MAGA

21.01.2025 60

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Mellow, man: Nothing matters when it comes to marijuana

The subject of the day is marijuana, so let’s indulge in a little nostalgia. Do you remember the first time you smoked a joint?  I do, and that is...

31.12.2024 40

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Jingle bells, shotgun shells: The stick up on Christmas Eve

It was 11 in the morning on the day before Christmas in 1968, and Johnny Machine, 6-2, skinny, ruddy, unshaven, nose like the prow of a tugboat,...

24.12.2024 2

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ABC News capitulates to Donald Trump. Is this the future of American media?

The short answer is that the future is already here.  We’re not talking about the mainstream media.  We’re talking about the establishment...

17.12.2024 20

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Remembering Donald Trump’s last political abduction racket

It is one of the everlasting quirks of humankind’s time on this earth that many of the bad ones, the ones who are responsible for the deaths and...

10.12.2024 6

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Joe Biden’s Hunter lesson: The political high road is a mirage

How quickly we forget. On the morn of President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, there is nary a column inch about who Trump pardoned before he...

03.12.2024 2

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The end of the special counsel forever? Jack Smith is in survival mode

If you have an abiding interest in American history, as I do, I suggest that you pay close attention to what is happening in Washington D.C. as we...

26.11.2024 10

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Donald Trump versus the "woke" military: More proof he hates America

While Memorial Day honors those who have died in our foreign wars, Veterans Day honors the service of all those who have served this country in...

12.11.2024 20

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Betting it all on fluoride: Trump takes a risky final gamble to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health

If the toxic mix of arrogance and certainty could be captured on film, it would look like the faces of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The...

05.11.2024 10

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Does the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump? If he wins, probably not

Donald J. Trump infamously called for the termination of the Constitution when he was seeking to be declared the “RIGHTFUL WINNER” of the 2020...

22.10.2024 30

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Trump’s lie-industrial complex

Lying and denial go hand in hand. Every time a lie is told, a denial must be concocted to protect the lie by denying that it is a lie. What Donald...

15.10.2024 1

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The problem with reporting on Donald Trump is the press never took him seriously

The way political journalism worked before Donald Trump seems quaint in retrospect. If it was a presidential election year, a reporter was assigned...

08.10.2024 40

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When natural disaster strikes, the legacy of Ronald Reagan haunts

It’s long been a cliché that Republicans are against the government until disaster strikes. At a 1986 press conference, Ronald Reagan uttered the...

01.10.2024 40

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For Donald Trump, it’s the golf that matters

I remember when I covered the presidential campaign (briefly) for the late-lamented Village Voice in 2016.  The first thing I did was log onto...

24.09.2024 10

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Unbalanced is the new black

Here’s a question: Why hasn’t there been more shock about the second (apparent) attempt on the life of Donald Trump in as many months?  I mean, the...

17.09.2024 4

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Abortion, abortion, abortion: Harris has a surefire path to knock Trump off his game

All that the thing on ABC tonight will have in common with a debate is two lecterns and two people...er, ah…one person and a mental health crisis in...

10.09.2024 10

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There is one big reason why this election feels so different: Donald Trump is lost

If  2020 was the face mask election, this one is turning out to be the Bounty election — you know…the “quicker picker upper” paper towels we...

13.08.2024 90

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“Whirlwind”: The fastest two weeks in American political history

“I launched my campaign for the President of the United States a mere two weeks ago,” Vice President Kamala Harris noted at the start of her...

08.08.2024 50

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Kamala's amazing rise: It wasn't flipping the script — it was releasing pent-up emotion

It’s hard to believe that it’s been only a week. I’ve been looking for the word to describe the feeling of the change that happened since Joe Biden...

30.07.2024 20

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The Secret Service director should be fired

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Monday to answer questions about the attempted...

23.07.2024 2

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Bye, bye Aileen

Judge Aileen Cannon ran her courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida, like a massage parlor for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best friends, and on Monday she...

16.07.2024 40

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