Send in the Troops: Trump’s March Toward Authoritarianism
With his customary ham-handed delicacy, President Donald Trump gazes 40 miles north from the Oval Office, glimpses the landscape, and declares this city “so far gone.”
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Doug Poppa Podcast: LVMPD sex, lies, and cover-ups
Episode 168. August 6, 2025. LVMPD sex, lies, and cover-ups. A compilation video containing excerpts from past episodes of the Doug Poppa Podcast. The Podcast was previously named ‘Truth and Consequences with Doug Poppa’.
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From Murrow to Colbert – CBS Ends an Era
BALTIMORE – On the evening of Nov. 18, 1951, Edward R. Murrow looked into a CBS camera for the first
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Everything Is Spiritual
The spiritual world has a hierarchy. In the Bible, we read about archangels and angels. Archangels have more authority, perform
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A Geopolitical Conundrum: Only Leverage Works When All Have It
I used to want nothing more than the Iranian government to collapse. After the events of last week, I’ve changed my mind. Governments are bigger than me or anyone else. I have never met anyone from Iran, and I had no chance to speak to an Iranian government official. If I did, the CIA would probably be following me around. It turns out that, as Americans, we are not free.
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Patterson Park No Kings Rally: Taking Back the America We Used to Know
As he moved through the big, peaceful gathering Saturday afternoon at one of this nation’s many “No Kings” rallies vilifying President Donald Trump, the guy handing out free American flags stumbled to find a place to maneuver, so crowded was this rolling Patterson Park hillside.
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World War II: Stories of Heroes Never Die
Eighty years ago this week, the organized killing ended in Europe and the boys began packing their bags to come home. My father was one of them. He was stationed in Foggia, Italy, with the U.S. Army Air Force.
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Baltimore Uprising and Freddie Gray: ‘Have you ever seen anything like this?’
Ten years since the Freddie Gray riots, there’s a voice in my head that has never gone away. The voice is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as he gazed from a safe studio in Washington at the fire and the fury outside a pharmacy in West Baltimore.
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Cold case detective cracks 2017 video-recorded rape case involving racing champ that LVMPD ignored
On January 11, 2023, a Clark County, Nevada grand jury returned a 26-count indictment on Las Vegas residents Christopher Reindl, Joseph Anthony Paterna and Christopher John Alloca charging all three with one count of first-degree kidnapping, one count of attempted sexual assault and 24 counts of sexual assault, stemming from a February 2, 2017, alleged crime.
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Trump’s contempt for Americans on display for all the world to see
Let’s get Trump’s cheap shot toward his predecessor out of the way first. It wasn’t Joe Biden who went after Trump, it was prosecutors in three states and the District of Columbia who had enough evidence to believe he had committed crimes.
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