EDITOR’S NOTE: Please scroll to the end of this story for important messages concerning the Buzzfeed report that is referenced below. We don’t typically cover breaking news stories here at The Shinbone Star, relying instead on sister publications with deeper pockets to handle the investigative stuff while we do the insightful, no-holds-barred commentary. But this morning’s […]
Say every bad thing you want about Vladimir Putin, but also give him credit: Planting a real, live Russian agent in the Oval Office! What a coup! Maybe that claim is a little hasty, but the FBI didn’t think so, going so far as to launch a counterintelligence investigation of President Donald Trump in 2016 […]
Editor’s Note: This offering — the first of two planned for today — is the 900th post published by The Shinbone Star. We’re proud of our anti-Trump record, and thank you for your support. * * * Like the old axiom about needing to step on a cockroach twice because the first crunch you hear is […]
Back in the good old days when snagging a journalism job wasn’t so much of a problem, one of the questions that always gave me pause at family reunions and cocktail parties was, “Is your newspaper a liberal paper or a conservative paper?” See, I never paid much attention to those distinctions because I was […]
Like many Americans, I don’t know a lot about Guatemala. Of course there’s this fine cup of coffee I’m sipping, freshly ground beans from Guatemala that had less trouble crossing the border than some 7-year-old girl who had to die to get my attention. Fact is, I don’t know a lot about Honduras, El Salvador, […]
One of the things that marks me as a Democrat and not a Republican is that I actually care about how my country appears to the outside world. That’s why my thoughts today have turned to our foreign readers and what they must be thinking about the latest news from America. By now world citizens […]
Dear Little Brown Girl: Sorry, kid, you should have been born Norwegian. With blonde hair, blue eyes and a lighter complexion — you know, Aryan good looks like Ivanka’s — President Donald Trump would have welcomed you with open arms. Instead, you got the tear gas. Not coming from a “shithole country” certainly has its […]
