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The Lesson From the McDonald's CEO Who Couldn't Eat His Own Burger People are getting very rich selling your kids products they'd never touch.

“There is an entire class of hyper-elite who are selling you stuff they know is terrible. The McDonald’s CEO just made it obvious.”

Schrödinger's War They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.

“They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.”

Bye, Girl I am neither Andy Borowitz nor The Onion.

“I know when something is so weird that it’s funny. Like Kristi Noem’s last tweet as DHS Secretary.”

Mike Johnson declines to condemn Republicans’ anti-Muslim remarks The speaker suggested his members meant to decry “Sharia law,” not the Muslim faith.

Balls? Hah.

Master Chief's actor doesn't want his voice to be used for the White House's 'propaganda video' The White House continues to use pop culture in its propaganda

But you may remember Steve Downes as a DJ on WDRV-FM, Chicago’s “The Drive.”

Illinois 2026 GOP primary for governor features four candidates and one familiar face but big donors sit out Four years ago, the six-way Republican primary for governor was impossible to miss. More than $100 million was spent largely on TV ads, including $35 million from Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, who not-...

Republicans bereft of big bucks.

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

“I can’t even muster the words to describe his self-adulation, matched only in scope by his apparent moral depravity.”

Sen. Tim Kaine says supporting Kristi Noem as DHS secretary was a "big mistake" Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, expressed regret on Sunday for supporting Kristi Noem for Department of Homeland Security secretary last year.

Ya think?

Bloody Sunday Today marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

“We can all condemn an attack on a school—and a president who lies about his responsibility for it. In fact, we have to, if we don’t want to become a country that kills people at will. What happened in Iran should terrify Americans because of what it means if we don’t face it.”

March 7, 2026 At 8:50 yesterday morning, President Donald J.

“Trump’s shift highlighted that there appears to have been very little planning for what would happen after U.S. and Israeli bombs began to rain on Iran.”