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What the Hell is Going On?

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The only thing we can say with certainty, fourteen months into what ought to be called the Dunning-Kruger administration,* is that nobody knows what the hell is going on. We, its subjects, formerly known as “we the people,” certainly do not. Granted, there do seem to be two broad schools of thought about what’s going on, but their positions are diametrically opposed. If one school is right, then the other must be wrong. According to the conventional view of our tripartite form of self-government, an undefined “fourth estate” ought to be acting like a beacon, cutting through the fog, helping us to understand current events. …

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Volume 270, No. 14

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When editing a newspaper, one must always strive to give the reader a view of current events that is both accurate and coherent. This is always challenging, but that’s fine. It’s what makes the work rewarding. We do worry, though, that if we continue down our present path, reality itself with lose its coherence. So, click on this link now, to read our latest, before we’re reduced to running outright gibberish.

Sat, March 14

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2025—A federal court orders #47 not to deport anyone under the Alien Enemies Act. He defies the order. Congress lets him get away with it. 2018—Hoping not to get shot like so many of their late peers, a million American students walk out of school to demand gun control that works. 1977—RIP Fannie Lou Hamer, organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, who said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” 1973—Guards at the notorious Walpole, Mass., State Prison go on strike. For two months inmates run the joint, with zero murders and little violence. 1970—Two merchant sailors mutiny, taking the napalm-laden SS Columbia Eagle to pinkish …

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Fri, March 13

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2020—Dolt #45 states the obvious: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” 2019—Gambino family mob boss Frank Cali is whacked in front of his Staten Island home by a QAnon follower who thought “he was enjoying the protection of President Trump.” 2002—George W.[MD] Bush says, “We haven’t heard much…I don’t know where [bin Laden] is…I truly am not that concerned about him.” 1979—In N.Y.C., P.M. Eric Gairy asks the UN to investigate UFOs. In Grenada, the New Jewel Movement leaders whom he had ordered jailed or killed overthrow his government. 1968—A leaky nerve gas dispenser on an F-4 Phantom lets VX nerve gas drift from the …

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Thurs, March 12

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2014—Austin Ruse, head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, says on American Family Radio, “the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities…should all be taken out and shot.” 2013—Jim Clapper, Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence, swears to Congress citizens aren’t being spied on. He’s lying. 2003—News reports say VP Dick “Dick” Cheney is still being paid up to $1 million a year by Halliburton. 1990—ADA activists visit the Capitol the only way they can: leaving their wheelchairs and crawling up the steps. 1956—Bill Fulbright, Sam Ervin, Hale Boggs—Cokie Roberts’ dad—and 98 other Congressmensign a “Southern Manifesto” pledging to maintain school segregation. 1947—President Harry …

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Wed, March 11

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2025—The White House is turned into a Tesla dealership for a day. 2020—Dolt #45 announces a travel ban; infected U.S. citizens turn airports all over into super-spreader sites. 2012—Freedom, Maine’s Town Meeting votes to amend the Constitution, nixing corporate “personhood.” 2011—An earthquake knocks Earth 10 inches off its axis, brings Japan four feet closer to the U.S., causes a tsunami that kills 15,850 people, and triggers three nuclear meltdowns. 2008—SEC Chair Chris Cox says “We have a good deal of comfort about the capital cushions at these firms,” days before Bear Stearns collapses. 2002—Fox military expert Lt. Col Joe Caffasso, who boasts a Green Beret …

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