August 19th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Last week provided two clear examples of how Donald Trump thinks — the decoy plane and the aircraft carrier. Everyone is expendable.
Tags: Air Force One, aircraft carrier, Bahrain, decoy, Expendable, Hegseth, Indian Ocean, Iran, Lincoln, NATO, Republicans, Rubio, trump, turkey, war
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August 17th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
For the first time in its 75 years of existence, the Bayonne Little League team is playing in The Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. That’s front page news to me.
Tags: 1952, Adelphi, Bayonne, Bayonne Bridge, Bayonne Times, Binghamton, Bob Gaydos, community, Little League, Newspapers, social media, sports pages, Sun-Bulletin, Wallkill, Williamsport
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August 11th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
When in trouble, call them communists. Republicans have had that in their playbook for decades. Trump just revived it.
Tags: communist, Epstein, Mamdami, McCarthy, Medicare, Muslim, polls, prices, Republicans, Roy Cohn, trump, war
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August 8th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Took the AP news quiz just to see if I missed anything last week. Geez, wish I had.
Tags: Capitol One, fascism, Fauci, FIFA, Grande, Head Start, Marino, Medicare, Money laundering, Pirro, reflecting pool, salmonella, trump
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August 5th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
The Republican party keeps coming up with new ways to prove that it is dead. Useless. I said so 10 years ago when Trump first ran for president. Here’s the obituary.
Tags: 2016, attorney general, Blanche, Clinton, Collins, Cornyn, IRS, McConnell, Republicans, Senate, slush fund, Tillis, trump
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August 3rd, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Was Jeanine Pirro tired of Washington, the lying, or just waking up to reality when she bucked Trump on the Lincoln Pool story? Whatever, the odds are she’s gone.
Tags: blackout, Carlson, contractor, D.C., Greene, Kalshi, Lincoln, MAGA, Massie, Pirro, Pool, prediction markets, prosecutor, trump, vandalism
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August 1st, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Did Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination help him? Depends on what you mean by “help.”
Tags: Biden, Cohn, contempt, Covid, Fauci, Fifth Amendment, guilty, Rand Paul, Republicans, Senate, trump
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July 28th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Trump’s nuclear ‘deal’ with Saudi Arabia was fine except for one thing —- it ignored the long, complicated history of the Middle East. Deals don’t come easily there.
Tags: Abraham Accords, Arab, Gaza, Iran, Islamic, Israel, Kushner, Middle East, New york Times, nuclear energy, Palestine, Rubio, Saudi Arabia, social media, trump, war
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July 25th, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
When it comes to make-believe, Gilbert and Sullivan have nothing on what’s happening every day in Washington, D.C. Well, except for being far more entertaining.
Tags: Beshear, Delaware Valley opera company, diarrhea, Fox News, Gilbert and Sullivan, Kentucky, measles, Mitch McConnell, opera, press, Republicans, senator, Sullivan County, The Mikado, trump, war
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July 21st, 2026
By Bob Gaydos
Suddenly or unexpectedly, Lindsey Graham’s death has changed the chemistry in the Senate. Or has it?
Tags: Binghamton, Bob Gaydos, Darline Nordone, David Bernstein, Lindsey Graham, McMaster, primary, Republicans, Senate, South Carolina, The Sun-Bulletin, trump
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