TheWeekholeView: Trump Broke ISIS Apart
With the Islamic State (or ISIS) facing setbacks in Iraq and Syria, most observers believe that the group is inexplicably crumbling. Iraqi Prime Minister...
Happy Hanukkah from the White House and TPV
THE WHITE HOUSE
A Real Festival of Lights: Hanukkah at the White House 2014/5775On Wednesday, December 17, the President and Mrs. Obama welcomed...
Obama the Presidential-Image-Cleaner
After making Bush look good, Obama is working on improving Putin's image. Sources close to TPV tell us that Obama has been recruited by...
Memorable 2015
At TPV we do not have an in-house photographer, but the White House has a few. Here are some beautiful photos from the White...
NYT: What a Stronger Dollar Means for the Economy.
Spend everything you've got, mortgage all the rest; wait for the crash.
TheWeekholeView: The Big Sigh of Relief
In TPV land the week starts now and then, and mostly then, lately. But here comes what fell through the hole these past seven...
Valerie T May Soon Be Free to Tweet to Her Heart’s Content
The French satirical publication Le Canard Enchaine is not our Onion. Its articles, even when more wishful thinking than factual reports are the result...
Smartphone accessory diagnoses HIV and syphilis in 15 minutes
...Just by looking at your contacts.
The Nature of Thoughts – Morning Heights Campus Chapter 1199SEIU
On February 24, 2016, the Chapter of 1199SEIU at the Morningside Heights Campus of Columbia University met and voted to endorse the candidate whose goal...
One Uncompromising Voice: Bill Martin’s
I do not know if Herbert Marcuse said somewhere that, despite the appearance of great dynamism in capitalist society, nothing really happens, but I...
The N.Y. Times: French cuisine may cause sudden blindness in fat old corrupt politicians
I dare you to distinguish between a prostitute and a naked society woman. Henri Leclerc, defending the onetime favorite candidate for the French presidency, Dominique...
On Lust and Social Dilemmas: To Spit or to Swallow
Dominique Strauss Kahn, the would-have-been French Bill Clinton, was unluckily undone by his carnal lust before the French people had a chance to vote...
