James Comey, former head of the FBI whom Trump sensationally fired last year is on a revenge mission with a new book ‘A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership.’ Even before its April 17th publication, it’s top of the Amazon bestseller list. The book promises “never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations … Read more
The Menendez brothers both serving life sentences without parole for killing their parents in 1989 are together in the same prison for the first time in almost thirty years. Their defence attorney claimed they were abused by their father, though the judge or jury through a complicated set of trials saw them as … Read more
Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s closest advisers, a vociferous opponent of immigration, with a passion for American exceptionalism and racial superiority as well as a penchant for outrageous provocation was born 23 August 1985 4.53pm Santa Monica, California. He was a trenchant conservative even in college, railing against multi-culturalism and Spanish-language announcements and … Read more
An even wilder conservative talk show host than Ingraham, Michael Savage has been heavily criticised because of his virulent comments against homosexuality, Islam, feminism, sex education, and immigration. He’s barred from UK for “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred.” He thinks liberalism and progressivism are destroying the US, … Read more
Bill Cosby is facing a retrial starting this week on three counts of aggravated indecent assault after his hung jury last time round. But in a different climate, with #metoo having changed attitudes and the judge this time allowing more women to testify on prior bad acts. Born 12 July 1937 12.30am Philadelphia, … Read more
Controversial views on gender and identity politics have shot an obscure Canadian clinical psychologist and academic to fame. Jordan Peterson, known as ‘the cowboy philosopher’, has waded into the linguistic morass around the transgender debate and been challenging the orthodoxies of political correctness and the culture of victimhood he believes is sweeping across … Read more
Ronny L Jackson, Trump’s personal physician who gave his health a hyperbolic and sycophantic all-clear has been nominated to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. Schulkin just departed did appear to have blotted his copybook with expenditure on personal trips on tax payers’ dimes, though in the context of what else is going … Read more
Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban in 2012 for campaigning for female education. She sustained life-threatening injuries and had part of her skull removed to relieve swelling on her brain, but recovered and is now reading Politics, Philosophy … Read more
Roseanne has re-launched, the sit com about a working class white family from suburban Illinois, which catapulted Roseanne Barr and John Goodman to fame in the late 1980s/1990s. To add to the family’s dysfunction this time round is a political divide with Roseanne a Trump supporter (as Barr is in real life) … Read more
Arnaud Beltrame, who traded places with a hostage and ended up dead in a terrorist shootout by a French-Moroccan Islamist near Carcassonne in the south of France, was a senior gendarme with a military parachuting background. Born 18 April 1973 in Etampes, France, he was a charming, late Sun Aries conjunct Venus in … Read more