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Former special counsel Robert Mueller has an op-ed in The Washington Post defending his office’s prosecution of Roger Stone and saying he is still a convicted felon and “rightly so” […]

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New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has a piece today entitled The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump.  He analyzes the aims of George Conway (Lincoln Project) and Charlie Sykes […]

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It took four months into the coronavirus pandemic and 134,000 Americans dead for President Donald Trump to get the message to wear a face mask.  For the first time in public, on a […]

Blake Neff and Tucker Carlson
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Blake Neff, the chief writer for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program has resigned after it was revealed he’d secretly posted racist and sexist mess […]

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Donald Trump was called yesterday the “most corrupt president in history” after he commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence just days before he was scheduled to go to priso […]

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The US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. can obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns for a criminal investigation but sent a s […]

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Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joined workers and others in painting a “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower (see video above).  This did […]

Governor Cuomo’s Press Conference – His comments about school re-openings start at the 10:40 mark.
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Yesterday during his regular press conference (see video above),  New York State G […]

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Late last night, the counter on Tony’s Thoughts reached seven million visitors.  When I started this blog in November 2009, I never imagined that there would be such interest in what I […]

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About four months after 1.1 million New York City children were forced into online learning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that public schools would still not fully reopen […]

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Ivy League college officials announced yesterday that all sports would be canceled at least until January amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The move to eliminate  games and matches […]

Due to scheduled IT maintenance, the library website, proxy and blog will not be available on Sunday, July 12th, 2020 between 8am and 6pm. There will be no off-campus access to GC library databases, […]

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Scott Martelle has an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times this morning calling out the Trump administration for proposing that international students enrolled in U.S. colleges must attend […]

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Tom Friedman in his New York Times column this morning has excellent advice for Joe Biden advising him not to debate Donald Trump unless two conditions are met. 

First, Biden […]

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Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos launched a media blitz yesterday designed to push schools and colleges to reopen in the fall regardless of the coronavirus pandemic.  Earlier in the […]

The regularly scheduled release on July 28 (the fourth Tuesday of July) is a major-update release for plugins and themes. This release is also a major feature release for the Commons, and will have the version […]