Bounties-Gate

Two refugee children in Kabul. Photo: Reese Erlich-by Reese ErlichOn June 26, in a major front page story, the New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan last year.

by NoahThat's one small mask for a man. One smaller man who's trying to kill us all.Once we found out that Trump's Moscow-based handler was paying bounties to the Taliban for the corpses of U.S.

by NoahTwo things we can conjecture about the White House staffers depicted in the above cartoon: 1) Someone or someones did their job and informed the president, indicating that there is at least one person with access to Trump that still has at least an ounce of patriotism left.

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The Democrats are corrupt enough, but the Republicans are on another planet entirely-- or at least in another culture, a culture of corruption. It's no wonder Trump thinks he can get away with giving the Russians a tacit green light to pay bounties on American soldiers stationed overseas.

Bullets by Chip ProserIf, as is often said, Texas is the GOP's California, then TX-13 (Amarillo) is the Democrats' CA-12 (San Francisco). One has a PVI of R+33 and the other's is D+37. In 2016, Trump scored a nice solid 79.9% in TX-13-- but just 8.7% in CA-12. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi represents one and Mac Thornberry, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, represents the other.

Damage Control by Nancy OhanianFriday, as soon as I read the NY Times piece about how Trump failed to react when he was briefed on Russia paying bounties to Afghan rebels and criminals for the deaths of U.S. soldiers, I knew Señor T was cooked. Treason doesn't fly-- not even in Wyoming, the Trumpiest state in the Union.