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by David French The New York Times, December 4, 2025 In their military campaign in South America, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aren’t just defying the Constitution and breaking the law. They are attacking the very character and identity of the American military. To make this case, I have to begin in the most boring…
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The president said lawmakers who appeared in a video committed “seditious behavior” and should be arrested and put on trial for treason. Excerpts , reprinted from the Washington Post, November 20. 2025 By Maegan Vazquez, Dan Lamothe and Jeremy Roebuc President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who publicly exhorted…
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President Trump was reacting to a video that reminded members of the military that they are not supposed to obey illegal orders. Reprinted from the New York Times, November 20, 2025 By Shawn McCreesh President Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers of sedition in an outburst on social media Thursday morning and said their…
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by David Ignatius The Washington Post, June 10, 2025 Democrats have gotten the border issue so wrong, for so long, that it amounts to political malpractice. The latest chapter — in which violent protesters could be helping President Donald Trump create a military confrontation he’s almost begging for as a distraction from his other problems…
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March 30, 2025 Guest Essay New York Times By John W. KekerRobert A. Van Nest and Elliot R. Peters The writers are the senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters. President Trump this month issued an executive order clearly intended to destroy the venerable law firm Perkins Coie, a firm that…
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New York Times, Feb. 8, 2025 By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Don’t get distracted. Don’t get overwhelmed. Don’t get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and…
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Nicholas Kristof New York Times, February 5, 2025 The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.” By my calculations, Elon Musk probably has a net worth greater than that of the…
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The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their ultimate political gain. The New York Times Jan. 5, 2025, 3:00 a.m. ET In two weeks, Donald J. Trump is to emerge from an arched portal of the United States…
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The Dead Patriots SocietyMay our children not behave like our President Post #1, November 10, 2024 As columnist Ruth Marcus notes in today’s Washington Post, Elon Musk and Trump advisor Mike Davis, like Donald Trump, are verbally attacking special counsel Jack Smith, who is shutting down his investigations of Trump. Smith is doing so because…
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Given all Trump has said and done since 2015, the most generous thing I can say about him is he must be quite ill. As such he might not be capable of fully understanding, as a sane person would, the consequences of his actions and the harm he has done to individuals, the Nation, and…