• America's greatest leaders have all had their critics — even Lincoln

    Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln was accused of being a drunkard who “could ruin more liquor than all the boys in town together” by his opponent Stephen Douglas in 1860.

  • Spokane firefighters battling flames in Lincoln Heights neighborhood

    SPOKANE, Wash - Spokane firefighters are on the scene of a building on fire

  • Amid battle for Don's 'absolute immunity,' question resurfaces about assassinating rivals

    Amid battle for Don's 'absolute immunity,' question resurfaces about assassinating rivals (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:Grand jury indicts 18 in alleged Arizona fake elector scheme to re-elect TrumpGiuliani, Meadows hit againPresident took part in Michigan plot but not charged: OfficialIf convicted, what next?Michael Cohen says he's reformed. Will America buy it?

  • What Would Lincoln Do?

    This brief but informative volume by Allen C. Guelzo offers up "the Great Emancipator" as a guide for Americans in our current time of troubles when many harbor doubts about the future of popular government and the rule of law, much as they did in Lincoln’s time. A research fellow at Princeton University and author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and other books on the Civil War era, Guelzo is our foremost Lincoln scholar and an authority on just about everything he said or wrote....

  • How America’s Military-Industrial Complex Wins All of Its Wars Against America’s Taxpayers

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]

  • Sandra Sully mortified after accidentally reporting Pauline Hanson is battling claims she is a 'rapist' amid hate speech court battle

    Sully, 59, was reporting on One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's hate speech court battle against Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi when she suffered a mortifying slip of the tongue.

  • Letters: This is America

    I read the letter to The Madera Tribune (April 3) by Chuck Wieland and the reply (April 10) by John Wright. I appreciated the comments by Wieland about Trump, the Republican party and the colorful language.“Let’s not be silently complicit in transforming America into a Bizarro World. Or Amerika.” Wright wrote that regarding Wieland’s comments, he was “stunned, disgusted and disappointed.” I feel that I have to inform Wright that not everyone in Madera County is a MAGA Trumper. That anyone who...

  • HOW CORRUPT IS AMERICA?

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) By overwhelming margins, the American people believe that their Government is corrupt, and the polling shows that the margins who believe this have soared from over 80% in 1976, to over 90% today. The American people overwhelmingly distrust their top ‘elected’ officials. Skepticism of the U.S. Government’s legitimacy is very […]

  • Does The CIA Run America?

    Does The CIA Run America? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues. Maybe that’s been true for decades and we just didn’t know it. If so, let’s just say that it would explain a tremendous amount of what has otherwise been clouded in secrecy. How would this be possible? Knowledge is power while secret knowledge is full control. Even fake knowledge means power...

  • How America Lost Sleep

    How America Lost Sleep (Second column, 9th story, link)

  • Board game battle

    President Joe Biden has offered "ironclad" U.S. military support for the Philippines in the face of Chinese naval harassment in the South China Sea waters that fall within Manila's exclusive economic zone but are also claimed by Beijing as its historic territory. Biden's remarks came ahead of an unprecedented trilateral summit at the White House with counterparts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose nations are longstanding U.S. treaty...

  • Why BBM is pro-America

    Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.’s pivot to America will soon yield dividends – in terms of investments in critical areas, jobs and job training, solid infrastructure, energy independence, digital connectivity, microchip production, agribusiness, mass transport and logistics hubs.