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3 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira
Vice President J.D. Vance, while on a much-circumscribed trip to Greenland (he never left the U.S. military base there), delivered what he must have thought of as a great pitch for Greenland to become a U.S. territory:Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. ...
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3 weeks ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Bruce Maples
(UPDATE: Since I penned this, journalist Julian Sanchez noted proof in the text messages that #SignalGate wasn’t a one-off.
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1 month ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Bruce Maples
Children, gather ‘round while I tell you a tale of nomenclature past. Once upon a time, the womb warriors were referred to as anti-abortion. Which was accurate, because as abortion-rights advocates noted, once a baby was born, they didn’t care about it any longer. Now, this greatly offended all of the people who wanted to control what women did with their bodies.
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2 months ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Kentucky Lantern
One of the most life-changing things that I ever learned I learned from George W. Bush. I know, I know! How could I learn anything from a man who asked, “Is our children learning?” Admittedly, Junior Bush is a grade A blockhead, but he accidentally explained how the oligarchy works.
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2 months ago | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Bruce Maples
The most important thing about the relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is what we don’t know. Because there is some reason, unseen by us, that Trump didn’t fire Musk weeks ago and seems incapable of even considering it. Let’s begin with what we do know: Donald Trump is one of the most narcissistic, thin-skinned petty little men who has ever lived.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira |Kentucky Lantern
Some of Donald Trump’s ideas are so stupid that no one has even considered trying them before. Injecting bleach, anyone? Space Force? Deploying nuclear devices to stop hurricanes? Proposing to cure cancer by eliminating windmills? Pontificating on sharks vs. electrification? Suggesting that a giant faucet in Canada controls water flow to California? But invading Canada isn’t one of them.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira
Well, well, well. Oklahoma State (Schools) Superintendent Ryan Walters is a grown man. He’ll be 40 years old on his next birthday. (I looked it up.) How is it that he has not yet learned that, before you make a decision, you should — I don’t know — check things out? Because it is obvious that Walters doesn’t know anything about what he’s talking about.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
forwardky.com | Ivonne Rovira
I feel such a fool! How did I not realize that Donald J. Trump was the king of Festivus? Festivus, for those who celebrate, falls on Dec. 23. The holiday was introduced to America by Seinfeld’s George Costanza’s father (played with great aplomb by the late Jerry Stiller) as an improvement over Christmas.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
forwardky.com | Berry Craig |Ivonne Rovira
(Note to readers: this is a text I wrote in March, looking ahead. Given where we are now in the US, I thought it deserved an update. Please share it.)Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. And now we have an president-elect who vows to persecute the enemy within, and who has proposed a cabinet that seems designed to overturn a republic. What’s wrong with that, ask many? Why not a dictator who will get things done? I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
forwardky.com | Berry Craig |Ivonne Rovira
With mass deportations looming, alleged child sex scandals brewing, billionaire tech moguls poking around in the White House and so, so much more … the uneasiness in the air is thick this holiday season. But for those who celebrate, Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to show some gratitude for the silver linings all around us.
