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- News, Opinion May 21, 2025
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POS—A new acronym for Donald Trump that finally makes sense.
Taking a Gander
- When I’d finished my morning toilet duties, I surveyed the contents of the bowl. It was no surprise—nothing so really different than every other time, though I did notice that the color was off a bit. As I pressed the flush button, I heard a desperate call. “Help!” pleaded the voice, “It’s me, Donald, your president.”
- News, Opinion May 14, 2025
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As Trump escalates, more and more Americans will face a test of patriotism.
Taking a Gander
- If Donald Trump is allowed to use Supreme Ruler-style extortion and fear as the primary tools of “leadership,” America may well become one of those “shithole” nations that he’s always loved to insult.
- News, Opinion May 7, 2025
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King? Pope? Donald Trump is America’s own Walter Mitty.
Taking a Gander
- Don’t be surprised if you start seeing AI-generated photos of Donald Trump on the cross at Calvary, or if, at press conferences, he starts inviting Fox News reporters to inspect his scars. That would be Trump’s most blatant attempt to make himself appear important and relevant.
- News, Opinion April 30, 2025
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The late Pope Francis stood apart as a Christian leader willing to condemn international atrocities.
Taking a Gander
- Monday morning, April 28, 2025. Hopefully everybody’s heard the unsettling daily news and fully appreciated the great compassion of our world leaders. All have chimed-in, on a united front, over the tragic terrorist violence in Pahalgam, India, condemning the attack in which 26 people—mostly tourists—died.
- News, Opinion April 23, 2025
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Americans are living the nightmare of a toddler president bedtime story.
Taking a Gander
- My Uncle Sam’s household had devolved into a symphony of sighs and weary shuffles, the ceaseless demands of home and family threatening to drown Betsy and Sam. One chaotic evening, amidst the debris of a lukewarm, chicken nugget dinner, Sam threw up his hands in mock surrender.
- News, Opinion April 16, 2025
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Donald Trump’s birth defects threaten our democracy.
Taking a Gander
- What President Donald Trump’s personal physician won’t tell you about his recent five-hour physical is that Trump has a serious congenital deformity. It seems that Mother Nature threw him a real curve, getting the connections to his trachea and digestive tract totally reversed.
- News, Opinion April 9, 2025
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Donald Trump’s reality-show presidency scores big ratings while the global economy teeters.
Taking a Gander
- Tune in tomorrow, folks, for another exciting episode of the Donald Trump MAGA Reality Show. It promises to bring more shock and awe to a world that is holding its breath.
- News, Opinion April 2, 2025
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Americans hide under the covers while evil presides.
Taking a Gander
- Why do good people remain silent? The answer seems ridiculously clear: Safety.
- News, March 26, 2025
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Trump will huff and puff, and Americans will see what their democracy is made of.
Taking a Gander
- Sunday, March 23, was the anniversary of some notable historic events. On that same date in 1919, Benito Mussolini founded the Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. In 1933, the German Reichstag passed the “Enabling Act,” cementing Adolf Hitler’s authoritarian power. Back in 1775, Patrick Henry made his famous declaration to the Virginia Provincial Convention, “Give me liberty, or give me death.”
- News, Opinion March 19, 2025
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Has America already forgotten 1776?
Taking a Gander
- Thomas Paine, one of America’s greatest advocates, was a vocal and ardent supporter of the American Revolution. It is estimated that two of his pamphlets, Common Sense and The American Crisis—which George Washington actually read aloud to rally his troops—were largely responsible for pushing the colonists out of their comfort zone and supporting the war of independence from Britain.
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Taking a Gander: Trump's claims of election fraud are going nowhere fast
December 03, 2020
