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Wes Terne Satire, who mocked human flaws across a broad spectrum of media, died Wednesday in Brooklyn after a battle with depression. He was 2,618. The son of vegetable farmers known for their corny humor, Satire spent his early years in Greece. He moved of... More »
President Trump today defended the grandparents of Walter Thurman Fredrickson, whose Christmas present to the eleven-year-old—an ALSETEX Cougar MS, magazine-fed, repeating grenade launcher they picked up on vacation in Algeria—was used to destroy a two-blo... More »
WASHINGTON DC. – On the heels of the mass shooting in a Florida high school and President Trump’s promotion of incentivizing armed teachers, the NRA has launched the “A Gun in Every Locker” program that aims to arm those most likely to be on the fr... More »
WASHINGTON – While most Americans support the U.S. drive for world domination, some have confessed to harboring doubts about the master plan. A recent CNN / Langley University poll of Americans showed that 18% of Americans were skeptical about the U.S. maste... More »
Apparently trigger warnings were not enough to save the cinematic legacy of the silent film star Charlie Chaplin. Streaming services, globally, have removed all of Mr. Chaplin’s work from their catalogs, as have other media entities. The remarkable six-day... More »
By Dan Geddes MENLO PARK – A recent New York Times/Facebook survey found that a supermajority of Americans believe that America should be fighting bigger wars against ever more powerful enemies. On the New York Times website as well as on Facebook, reade... More »
WASHINGTON – Politicians and media pundits from both political perspectives have called on President Trump to attack Russia as soon as possible to prove once and for all that he is not colluding with Russia. “The only way for Trump to prove that he isn... More »
There is mounting evidence that two explosions at a flooded Arkema chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Crosby, Texas—explosions that sent plumes of toxic smoke into the sky over a residential area—were not simply “accidental.” These explosions—... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – A vast majority of Americans remain far too clever and well-informed to be manipulated by divide-and-rule tactics, a recent Georgetown University study finds. Georgetown professor of social policy and former CIA analyst Alfred... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – “Trump is Putin’s puppet,” read several signs in the crowd. A liberal umbrella group called the Coalition for an Integrated America (CIA) held a rally yesterday in Lafayette Square near the White House, protesting Donald Trum... More »
Justin Key 26 June 2017 Six months ago, during a particularly tense encounter with his father, Johnny “The Hornet” Teragio came out of the closet to his father, Jimmy “The Bull” Teragio, the head of the Teragio crime family. Unsure of w... More »
One very lucky Boston teenager survived a harrowing 45 minutes while dining with her family on April 19, 2017. “I thought she was going to die,” her younger sister explained with tears in her eyes. “There was nothing I could do. I felt so hel... More »