John A. Farrell

Nixon faced a similar question from friend and foe: Why not just release the damn tapes? And then they came out and we all knew the answer.

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

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The Nixon Foundation resorts to Nixonian tactics (and counter-productive perversions of the truth) by inviting a right-wing Cassius to spread his conspiracy theories and promoting them on social media. Fellas, this is not the way to win history's respect for RN. It only adds to the caricatures.

Sen. Schumer. Do not cave in on the ACA. Do not accept the deal.

Not a good guy: Lord Dunmore was an Indian killer, and as racist as the next guy in the 18th century. His proposal to free the enslaved and indentured was quite cynical: extended to the slaves and servants of patriots, not loyalists. After the war, he ruled an English slave economy in the Bahamas.

After each election, I am struck by the number of commentators, and self-deluding party professionals, who think the ballots cast on one day in our history constitute a settling of the argument. Of course they don't.

From pre-broadcast publicity it seems that one (perhaps unspoken) conclusion of the Ken Burns American Revolution show is a disagreement with the 1619 Project assertion that preserving slavery was the moving force of the rebellion. I agree: Access to western lands far more significant.

500 + at our local Beltway overpass . And well done UVA for resisting the Trump administration extortion.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

You mean James T. Hodgkinson?

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.

Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Re Jeffries, If Tip O'Neill had not given southern D's political cover in the Reagan years, the R's may have scored the gains in the House to make the "revolution" happen. Tip did what leaders in Congress do - preserve (or attain) a majority, if need be by shying from extremes. This is their grail.

TIME Magazine Cover: Food Prices - Apr. 9, 1973 TIME Magazine Cover: Food Prices

content.time.com/time/covers/... We forget. It wasn't just scandal that brought Nixon down.

Hundreds of flights delayed after tech issue grounds United Airlines flights United Airlines has grounded flights nationwide on Wednesday night due to an issue with its weight and balance computer system.

Meanwhile Sean Duffy is spending his hybrid Transportation Secretary/NASA Administrator gig figuring out how to deliver Starbucks by drone and building Chernobyl on the Moon.

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Screwing round with labor stats. Does he really want another Tricky Dick comparison while dealing with a shaky cover up?

If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September

Tip of the hat to Bongino. Ripped off the scab, as Nixon would say.

You know what we need? Another Phil Ochs.

"Don't worry about anything, Frankie Five Angels."

Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.

And all this time, I thought it was chronic cerebral insufficiency.

If any Democratic president in the last 120 years had publicly employed gutter profanity of the kind that Trump is introducing into presidential rhetoric, the church lady guys and gals on the Right would have gasped and spouted and sputtered til their fat little heads exploded.

Them who liked the motion picture Oppenheimer, try the unique thriller Stallion Gate, by the just departed Martin Cruz Smith. A terrific stand-alone novel - no Arkady - about Los Alamos.

It is not the crime, it's the cover-up that gets you in the end. Nixon had the decency to plot his in secret. Trump makes us all complicit. He just ordered the FBI director to "move on" and cover up the full details of the Epstein sex case - in a social media message, for all to see.

So the deputy director of the FBI, backed by the director of the FBI, threatens to resign if the Attorney General is not fired for covering up criminal behavior by the president's old friend in a sordid criminal sex scandal. And this is not a story leading every network and front page?

Trump bragged about crashing the teen America pageant so he could leer at the naked little girls, and once joked how his pal Epstein liked them young. To paraphrase Churchill, we have established who Trump is, we are just haggling about the price.

Principled Republicans refused to protect Richard Nixon in 1974. The ability of Democrats to ignore the fact that their protective treatment of Bill Clinton in the 1990s was the precursor that justifies, in Republican minds, the forgiving of any Trump wickedness is stunning.