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John Young
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Columnist and college instructor. Longtime Texas newspaperman now in Colorado.
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Suffer the little children.
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Announcing our 2025 Hypocrite of the Year
It’s that time of year when news outlets across the country admit they’ve had enough of it. They’ve run out of words. They’ve run out of gas. So they engage in what editors since time immemorial have ...
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December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Oil companies want Venezuela for Christmas.
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Big Carbon has wish list for President Smog
What does the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 have to do with who runs Venezuela? Everything. What does a fee by the International Maritime Organization have to do with the fate of the National Cent...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Critical race theory is simple visual acuity.
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Systemic racism? Right now, right in Oval Office
They stood in a starchy semicircle, posing, preening behind their role model. They — Republican bigwigs including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Transportation Secretary Sean Du...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A war criminal from his couch.
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The crime is the first ‘tap,’ not the second
In the craft of propaganda, one of the slyest techniques is euphemism — soft words for hammer blows. “Enhanced interrogation” for torture. “Downsized” for vaporized careers. “Alternative facts” for on...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The first campaign lie was his competence.
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Mr. I Alone Can Fix It owns economic debacle
The immense irony about what this president has done with the economy is that only the Supreme Court can save him — from himself. He says a ruling by the Supremes against his willy-nilly, go-it-alone-...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Fake news you say, Mr. President?
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‘Riots!’ in Portland and fake news on Fox
I saw the president call the ABC reporter “fake news.” That’s a laugh. The reporter was asking about his obsequiousness with murderous Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman while Don and Eric, aka the Cr...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Um, point of order: He doesn't need Congress to release the files.
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Cover-ups are what he does best
“Either you want to advance the cover-up or you want the truth to come out.” – Congressman Jamie Raskin. Multiple choice. Was he referring to: A) A cover-up to mask extensive engagement with Russia in...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Putting that Coppertone pout:
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High ketchup alert at MAGA home office
Maybe it was all that sledgehammering of White House walls. Hard labor at 79. Maybe it was partying like the devil Halloween night while government stood still. (Did they check the ages of those girls...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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A few good goons to play "COPS"
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ICE and its predatory propaganda
The Law Enforcement Oath of Honor: “On my honor, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Stunning news, but you have to go below the fold.
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Age of misinformation and mis-citizenship
If you take this as a media critique, you’re missing the story. This is a citizenship critique. Not the citizenship that comes with a Social Security card. Let’s discuss the kind of citizenship that d...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Economic policies straight from a horse's patootie
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At the post, in tangerine silks, on his horse Stagflation
There are so many reasons to grade down the vengeance jockey in the White House. So many reasons why the latest AP poll finds 61 percent of Americans firmly in the “disgusted” lane. The biggest reason...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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He is your overlord. No laws apply.
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Do as he says, or democracy gets it
Everyone should be as angry as my son over the insult. And I mean everyone – Democrat, independent, libertarian, MAGA true believer. Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, Barron. Yes, even J.D. “In...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Little Caesar and his military toys.
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Department of ‘War’ Mostly Killing Time
I shouldn’t read the news before bed. Because of such an error one night, I was pondering the idiotic political theater of sending troops to “war”-torn Portland when I fell into uneased sleep. I found...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Your health care is no concern to MAGA.
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Life-or-death crossroads for health care
So much to talk about. — About the Epstein files. Republicans said they were ready to release them once. — About government censorship. Six million TV viewers and 18 million Youtubers are talking abou...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Speech police have boots on ground
I know your first question: “Will the speech police be masked?” Why, of course. This’ll scare the bejeebers out of the libs: yet another federal police force on the streets – each member in riot gear ...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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More incitement from Mr. Fiction.
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Great Divider sets it on ‘boil’
Now we know about the shooter. He was a white supremacist, captivated and motivated by the right-wing “manosphere,” and of course a nation’s gun fanaticism. But he’s dead now, sucked into a vortex of ...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Lying his way to victory.
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Anniversary of a stupid, evil lie
It’ll be one year this week. One year ago. Sept. 10, 2024. I know you haven’t been reminded about the anniversary, and that’s not right. I’m here to remind you. If ours were an enlightened society, an...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The best crackpots available.
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Meritocracy of dunces — and vacancies
The reader’s email had a preaching tone. The writer spoke as if I hadn’t heard the Good News, and as if the Almighty had chosen her to proclaim it. In rubbing out diversity and equity programs, she wr...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Brave people vs. "Good Germans."
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Heroic resistance amid ICE offensive
Noe Fermin Guerrero-Mendieta was arrested for being brown. ICE storm troopers broke through his car window and arrested him for being a dangerous criminal. No, the Mexican national is here legally and...
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August 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Corrupt. Corrupted. Corruptible
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Unchecked: a president on the take
Not one in 100 Americans can tell you what “Abscam” stands for. Make that one in a thousand. It meant a lot in 1978 – an FBI sting behind the biggest bribery scandal in congressional history: six U.S....
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August 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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GOP can’t run from accountability
With a head of white curls and a face of demurred concern, Rosina Paolini asked for quiet. She wanted to ask, and she wanted to hear – her representative in Congress, Rep. Mike Flood, as he dodged tru...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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GOP fantasy: the end of environmental protection.
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They would make mountains disappear
Not that I live in a chalet. But depending on the angle through the trees, towering Longs Peak is in my backyard. Actually, it’s nearly an hour away, tucked into the back seat of Colorado’s Front Rang...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Heedless horsemen . . .
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ICE shock troops and appalled voters
We have film. Let it roll. Splice it just so. Start with a mounted menace: Masked and armed ICE agents advancing on horseback across a soccer field on Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park. It’s quite a show – ...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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MAGA he-men with pedophile pals
For a sect whose world is furnished with wild claims and rabbit-hole plunges, MAGA people aren’t very good at conspiracies. Atop QAnon articles of incorporation/initiation, after all, is the gospel tr...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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His legacy will be piles of rubble.
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Policymaking stupidity at flood tide
The river knew what these people were talking about. The morning after the Texas deluge, when the death toll along the Guadalupe was only in double digits, a commentary in The New York Times carried t...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM