I always thought it was too good to be true. Andrew Scheer offering to help the Liberal government defend NAFTA from Donald Trump and his Trumpkins.By going down to Washington…
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Donald Trump has always been a racist. From the day he launched his campaign to the monstrous place we are in now.But yesterday had to be his worst and most…
It makes sense to save up our complaints and just share them periodically. There is no need to write too much about them. We should see if we can give…
ARC has been publishing a series of posts regarding Ronny Cameron's attacks on other figures on the right (here and here). In the screen shots that were provided Cameron made…
Philosopher Kings – Charms
T The first picture you will recognize as Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minster sufficiently deluded to believe that he had a deal with Adolph Hitler that could keep his…
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56 year old John Feely, career diplomat and former Marine chopper pilot, serving as America’s ambassador to Panama has resigned his post. “As a junior foreign service officer, I signed…
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The Spiegel cover says it all:
Republicans like to praise themselves as the “party of Lincoln.” Of course that was when the Republican Party was a party of the north. Back then the slave state South…
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