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Washington, DC Under Lockdown, 25,000 Military Troops Deployed. Right-Wing Threat Debunked.

Last week, federal prosecutors claimed in court they believe that was the "intent" of "Capitol rioters" to kidnap and kill lawmakers, but the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia admitted hours later that "we don't have any direct evidence" of a plot to assassinate lawmakers on January 6.

Biden Inauguration Soundtrack Includes MF DOOM, an Immigrant Rapper Deported Under Obama

Despite presenting himself as an "in touch" progressive, Biden was the second in command in an administration that deported more immigrants than all the twentieth-century presidents combined.
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Thumping Covid Crackdowns and Inauguration Inanities on Chicago Radio

I joined Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s AM 560 The Answer this morning to smack around Covid nonsense, Inauguration excesses, and other malarkey in the news. Hopefully my raspy early morning voice wasn’t too much of a distraction. Dan  tweeted out a line from the show: The COVID Enthusiast: someone who hates you […]

Our Mail-in Elective Dictator

American Conservative, January 18, 2021 Our Mail-In Elective Dictator The surge in mail-in voting is a sea change for American democracy regardless of whether widespread fraud occurred. by  Jim Bovard When Joe Biden is sworn in as president, he will solemnly pledge to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” But the […]
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Mexico on the Eve of AMLO – “So Far from God and So Close to the United States”

The full quote by Porfirio Díaz is: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” Mexican President Díaz (1876-1880 and 1884-1911) got it at least half right. Mexico has suffered in the shadow of the Colossus of the North, but Mexico is not poor. Mexico is rich in many ways, yet it also has been impoverished. And Mexico has been greatly underappreciated by North Americans.

Inauguration Day Protesters Sue D.C. Police Over Rectal Probes

Police fire pepper spray on protestors during a demonstration after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington. (AP/John Minchillo)
WASHINGTON — Blasting District of Columbia police for abuse, including rectal probing, four people swept up in mass arrests during Inauguration Day protests sued the District and its Metropolitan Police force Wednesday on civil rights charges.