The complete list of all 33 false things Donald Trump has said as president so far The Toronto Star’s running tally of the bald-faced lies, exaggerations and deceptions the president of the United States of America has said, so far. By DANIEL DALE, Washington Bureau, Fri., Feb. 3, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump makes frequent false […]

From The Washington Post Why the Trump phone call could be a very good thing for us Australians President Doanld Trump, left, and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. (Associated Press; European Pressphoto Agency)   By Richard Glover February 3 at 7:47 PM Richard Glover is an Australian writer and broadcaster. How did Australia react to the belligerent, belittling […]

He “desperately needs to take the course.” By James B. Stewart, The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2017 For someone who promoted his management skills and campaigned as an “organizational genius,” as Anderson Cooper of CNN put it, it has been a rocky White House debut for Donald J. Trump, the first president to go directly from the […]

From The Washington Post: Senate and House Democrats, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), center, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last week to protest President Trump’s executive order banning people traveling to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) By Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post, February 1 at 6:41 […]

Larry McCoy is a long-time friend, classmate, and retired journalist who spent his adult life writing and editing news for broadcast on major networks. Here’s an email to his former colleagues: Email to My Friends Overseas To: BG (Canadian), LD (German), RE (Australian), MH (Romanian), TL (German), TA (British), RH (New Zealander), PK (Canadian/German/Australian), DK […]

On February 27, 1933, less than a month after Hitler was sworn in as a minority chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag building was destroyed by fire. Communists and Nazis accused each other. Hitler called it the beginning of a Communist coup and convinced President Hindenburg to sign a decree for “protection of the citizens and […]

Let’s get two things out of the way first. I am not a conspiracy theorist, and I do accept that Donald Trump won the election. That is why I’ve never been more worried about our country. As last week’s news developed through the weekend I grew concerned that we had a president who was unbalanced […]

A Clarifying Moment in American History There should be nothing surprising about what Donald Trump has done in his first week—but he has underestimated the resilience of Americans and their institutions. By ELIOT A. COHEN, JAN 29, 2017, The Atlantic I am not surprised by President Donald Trump’s antics this week. Not by the big […]

With apologies for posting 12 hours too late, this is the best piece I read on Sunday, the lead editorial from The New York Times. The answer to The Times’s question was provided by Jack Nicholson’s character in a “A Few Good Men.” Can Donald Trump Handle the Truth? By the editorial board, Jan 28, 2017 […]

‘We can’t become a dictatorship’: Protests erupt across the U.S. against Trump refugee ban Trump’s travel ban prompts angry protests, lawsuits By Faiz Siddiqui, Michael Laris and Michael Alison Chandler The Washington Post January 29 at 6:30 PM Thousands of demonstrators rallied outside the White House and in cities nationwide Sunday to protest President Trump’s […]