Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday that the U.S. plans to ramp up economic pain on Iran, and said the new moves will be the “financial equivalent” of a bombing campaign.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-bessent-iran-sanctions-f45619d7ea3050bd4b1cdd9c3881ca2b
Why wasn’t this done first, before initiating military action? Oh, right. Bibi talked Donald into going to war.
The crisis that Trump created in Iran is a total diplomatic mess. So, of course he’s returning to his comfort zone from The Apprentice, of being the big, bad boss. “You’re Fired!”
Trump threatens to fire Powell if he does not resign from the Fed
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/15/us/trump-news#trump-powell-fed-fire
The joke is that Trump has no authority to fire Powell.
Well, as expected, the non-political homepage sure didn’t last long.
Trump vows to ‘kill’ Iranian warships that near US blockade of ports
Warships? What warships? He said Iran’s navy was obliterated!
Katherine LaNasa is outstanding as Dana, the ER charge nurse on The Pitt. She plays the most realistic, gimmick-free character in the series.
This past week, I witnessed an outburst in the dining room of an assisted living facility. It inspired me to license this comic strip. In any context, what he says and does is crazy.
Are we sure that RFK, Jr. is the only one with a brain worm?
It’s been a couple of years since I last wrinkled up my nose and pursed my lips in disdain of William F. Buckley. A man of too many words who could be curiously inarticulate when presenting his half-baked ideas.
The video here is from 1974. A corrupt president had resigned, and America was reeling not only from that, but also the hard lesson of oil dependency. A lesson we are learning again under another corrupt president, who I wish very much would resign.
I was into watching Firing Line, so I may have seen this at the time. William E. Simon was Treasury Secretary. Simon was a class of Republican represented more recently by Mitt Romney.
