It's not weird at all. Melania's just helping an old buddy from the Epstein days. You would think that Bezos and the Trumps would know better. The truth is that they don't care.

Trump's beginning to learn that some of his puppies in office need to be house-trained. Going to war with the American people never works out well.

Meaning that the consequences are that it's okay for such federal agents to act like the Brown Shirts and Gestapo?

Today's essay question: Is the Trump turn in American foreign policy a repudiation of US foreign policy principles or their logical cumulative expression?

The Trump Doctrine: Extortion by a Bully.

So ... can you win a land war in Greenland? And if so, so what?

I used to think Andrew Johnson was our worst president. Used to.

It is surreal. Yet somehow I am not surprised. Neither are you.

We've gone from the bully pulpit to simply being a bully.

Wait until Speaker Mike Johnson says he has not seen the video of the ICE agent murdering a woman in Minneapolis, so he cannot comment.

For anyone interested in the American Civil War ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlJ...

On January 6, 2021, Republicans accepted and defended what they opposed between 1861 and 1865. Never forget. The threat remains. If anything, it's worse.

I wonder how many pro-Trump neoConfederates who attack Lincoln's actions in the Fort Sumter crisis are celebrating Trump's actions today.

I would encourage the president to follow his own path on this matter, which is a clear demonstration of his superior performance on cognitive tests.

Erika Kirk teaches us all how to move on.

I have heard that you don't trade him.

Dust jackets can conceal what you are really reading.

Fame takes many forms. www.thepoke.com/2025/12/04/w...

Their followers believe what they say. The question is how many voters who supported Trump are open to empirical evidence and experience. So much lying.

If you think that the military history of the Civil War is simply a story of generals and battles, you haven't kept up with the literature. For decades. At best, it's ignorance. At worst, it's insulting. It's also sooooo yesterday.

Slob.

Fight like it's 1846.

Clay Higgins apparently craves attention.

Who had MTG doing the right thing on their bingo card?

It's Sunday. Having helped someone prepare to take the US citizenship test several months ago ... I know how cringe worthy it is. PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.

So Harry Truman and George C. Marshall were woke?

Appomattox Court House.

The coup continues. In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things. Especially if you like neat numbers. The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.

Fugitive Slave Law vibes.

Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk. How soon they forget.

Someone get JD Vance a couch.

Escalators are not the problem.

Did Jesse Watters actually say this? "Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."

What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.

That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.

So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?

The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ... It's the coverup that gets you.

So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ... You're trying too hard, Mikey.

So people are out of work just to spite Trump? Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.

JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.

Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?

Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was. Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?

How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?

It feels like 1938 all over again.

Kevin Levin's been on this issue for some time. I'm looking forward to seeing more historians speak out. If not now, when? Never?

So the Secretary of Defense wants to honor people who killed US soldiers (many of whom are buried at Arlington National Cemetery) in their efforts to commit an insurrection to protect the enslavement of millions of people? That's where we are today, folks.