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Headlines and subheads are the beginning - not the end of the journey
I wonder through whose eyes I see
As I watch the chaos swirling around me,
My son, his son and a future unknown
Reading comprehension is learned – or in some cases not.
Comprehension plus the love of reading can take you on many an interesting journey. Being curious on that journey is a seed that when planted leads to higher learning, increased awareness, arts, science and bipedal locomotion. (Read it in Otter’s voice from Animal House. It’ll make sense).
Some don’t have the energy. Best we not speak ill of those who’ve never lived though they may draw breath. Rather, let’s stay in the common room whose signpost is up ahead. We call it reality. Some plumb its depths while others not so much.
For example, there is a common breed of human that believes it can ascertain the truth after merely reading 10 words. They consider themselves well informed. They are wrong.
Admittedly the Gettysburg Address was short (272 words) but you still can’t tell what it was all about after just the first 10 words. “Four Score and Seven years ago our forefathers brought forth,” and leave it at that. Brought forth what? A dinner party? A man servant dressed in black leather named “The Gimp?” Genocide? The possibilities are endless – even if you’re not a comic.
Anyway, the first ten words? Yeah. The length of a headline of a published news article. Millions of people are already done reading before they get to the subhead. The headline and the subhead may or may not accurately reflect the story, but it sure is hard to comprehend what you haven’t read – and yet there are those who consistently claim to do so.
Michael Cohen: Trump will go broke and may face prison — "it's going to hit him hard"
Trump's former fixer says his ex-boss, facing personal doom, looks like "somebody sucked the life out of him"
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has been called a lot of things over the years. Today, he is primarily known as the first person to be thrown under the Trump bus who decided to fight back.
Cohen has testified before Congress multiple times, sat through grueling court cases, testified before grand juries — all to speak the truth about former President Donald Trump.
I recently spoke to Cohen after he gave testimony in the New York civil case against Donald Trump's business empire — where Trump himself is scheduled to testify on Monday. It was the first time the two men had been in the same room in five years, but Cohen said he had no emotional reaction to their reunion. “I felt absolutely nothing," he told me. It was like "when you're walking down the street and you pass somebody who you do not know. It's not that you wish anything bad on that individual, it's just you feel nothing for them. You don't know them, you don't care. That's exactly how I felt. I wasn't there to make friends with Donald. I wasn't there to protect Donald. I wasn't there to harm Donald. I was there to tell the truth, and that's all that I did.”
Cohen has gone after Trump in two bestselling books, most recently "Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the United States Department of Justice Against His Critics," but may have damaged his former boss far worse in that New York courtroom, where Trump faces losing hundreds of millions of dollars because of his fraudulent business dealings. Cohen predicts that the ex-president faces a potential judgment of $600 million or more, and cautions, “Mind you, he does not have that in equity. So when these assets get sold — and remember, he is low basis in most if not all of these assets — take the tax implications and then subtract from that the outstanding mortgages that may exist. Technically, there's nothing left.”
EP: 226 - Just Ask The Press - Is social media destroying America?
This week on Just Ask the Press: Biden is losing in the polls to Donald Trump in five swing states. Trump has trouble in court. The Beatles and Stones are at the top of the charts. Just how far back did we turn the clock? Plus, is social media destroying America?
Far-right MAGA theocrats: Most dangerous threat to America
Even Mitch McConnell is trying to push back against Mike Johnson and the MAGA wing of the GOP. It isn't working
The world inches closer to a war that only psychopaths want to see.
On Tuesday the FBI issued a warning that the chance of staged terrorist attacks in the United States has grown since the war began in Gaza. In the White House briefing later that day, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked National Security Council spokesman John Kirby: “Has the White House considered the possibility that a terrorist could be in the country right now after crossing the southern border?”
Obviously they have, or the FBI wouldn’t have issued the warning. The question remains, however, what our government response would be to such an attack. That has already been discussed at the highest levels in our government, and the public has a right to know what that reaction would be.
So, although I wasn’t called on, as Kirby left the stage I interrupted to ask the only question I thought mattered: “John, wait a minute. Before you leave: If Hamas terrorists attack the U.S., would the U.S. put boots on the ground in the Middle East?”
Mary Trump - When does this all end?
On this edition of Just Ask the Question, we are joined by Mary Trump who explains that her uncle Donald is "getting worse" and is "a loser who keeps getting away with it," and that Jim Jordan "is the embodiment of the worst offenders" in the Republican party during the last 40 years.
We talk about her latest literary efforts, and what she sees coming in American politics.
Richard Ojeda - How to thrive as a blue progressive in a red state
This week on Just Ask the Question: Former Democratic Presidential candidate Richard Ojeda talks about surviving a pipe-wielding assailant to get elected to office in West Virginia, how he became a progressive, union loving Democrat in a very red state and why he still has hope for the future of the Country.
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