Scandal

Dmitri Drobnitsky22.04.2026

In a short period, a third legislator has already left the lower chamber amid scandals. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, representing the Florida Democrats, announced her resignation literally one hour before the House Ethics Committee was set to begin discussing her expulsion from Congress. Previously, the same committee had found her guilty of misusing the emergency COVID fund […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky18.12.2025

She was forced to defend herself, Trump said, “What’s the big deal?” The administration is baffled as to why Susie even started it. The rather glossy interview was parsed into individual quotes, and it became less funny. Not so much the publication itself, but subsequent commentators presented the matter as (a long-standing mainstream narrative) that […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky28.11.2025

In particular, the mother of the White House Press Secretary’s nephew faces deportation from the United States. 33-year-old Bruna Ferreira, who immigration authorities believe is in the United States illegally, was detained in New Hampshire. She arrived in the United States from Brazil as a child, and her parents apparently settled in the United States […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky20.08.2024

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Donald Trump equated the civilian Medal of Freedom with the military Medal of Honor, and became a target for criticism. Both awards — the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom — are the highest awards in the United States. The first is for the military, the second — for civilians. The […]

William S. Smith24.05.2020

Fittingly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded by a grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, during the Progressive Era. Bonaparte was a Harvard-educated crusader. As the FBI’s official history states, “Many progressives, including (Teddy) Roosevelt, believed that the federal government’s guiding hand was necessary to foster justice in an industrial […]

Roger Kimball03.05.2020

Among other things, the case of Gen. Michael Flynn reminds us of the old adage that things are always worse than you think. Right from the beginning of the attempted coup some of us took to calling ‘the Russian Collusion Delusion’, it was clear that the hounding of President Trump and various aides and supporters […]

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“Slaughter” in the House of Representatives Continues

Susie Wyles’s Interview Caused a Scandal

Deportation Faces: Unexpected People are Tapped

Trump’s Inaccuracy Or An Elephant Out of a Fly?

FBI and Flynn’s Case

The Flynn Case Is a Travesty

Incense with the Digital Trail

Voice from Russia

Vladimir Lenin’s Birthday

“Slaughter” in the House of Representatives Continues