DOOMSDAY No one can say how much longer Donald Trump will be in office. But because Trump is still in power, “It is now 100 seconds to midnight.” Such was the ominous headline Thursday from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after moving its Doomsday Clock ahead 20 seconds. In a press release, Bulletin President…
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, which had Trump-Russia fingerprints all over it, is a bigger scandal than ever Bill Palmer | 11:19 pm EDT October 8, 2018 (reprint from Palmer Report » Analysis) It was an instantly explosive scandal, with ramifications deep and wide enough to shake American democracy to its core – and then almost as instantly, the mainstream…
Christians’ Call to Speak Truth to ‘Alternative Facts’ Reprint from 2017 By Jim Wallis 01-26-2017 “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” — John 18: 37-38 This has…
Donald Trump’s base can’t buy a clue During the plague years of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton fled Cambridge for his home in Lincolnshire and, as would any bored 23 year old, co-invented a method for the assembly and disassembly of infinitesimals that later became known as calculus. Calculus came in handy when, so the mythology…
It’s Time To Call A Murderer A Murderer In the run up to their 1998 Jackson Pollock retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the show’s curator received a disturbing letter from a Mr Metzger. Metzger wanted to know, “Why are you honoring the man who murdered my sister?” If…
Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret Donald Trump is hiding a dirty little secret that will end with his imprisonment. For someone who sold out his country years ago, Trump has continued to pretend to work towards “America First,” despite all evidence to the contrary. While it is clear that Trump illegally inherited nearly…
This is a tale of how a bluff, loud, lying, bullying, rotund, ostensibly blond, narcissistic vulgarian came to capture the hesitant yet sufficient mandate of his country. He kept his slogan simple and easy to remember in four words or less. While the opposition mired itself in murky messages, the vulgarian turned the election…
Bill Barr and the Republican cult of death Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EST December 12, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis Immediately upon the release of the Mueller Report and its eponymous author’s tepidly dry, hyper-qualified, squeamish defense, I knew we were finished. I knew that nothing short of angry, full-throated outrage would save it in its presentation, and…
In the end, Donald Trump had no one left to do his dirty work for him – and that’s why it’s all over for him now Bill Palmer | 12:01 pm EDT September 21, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis Donald Trump criminally conspired with Russia in plain sight to rig the 2016 election. He committed treason, espionage, conspiracy against…
Donald Trump is ripping you off even worse than you thought Shirley Kennedy | 6:04 pm EDT August 15, 2019 Palmer Report » Analysis (REPRINT) Trump and his Republican cronies continue to turn against the middle class. Sam Berger, a writer for MarketWatch, tells us how this is being done, but he doesn’t tell us the “why.” What’s in…
