Tag: tales

Biden Loves to Tell Tall Tales. We Cut Them Down to Size.

WASHINGTON — In President Joe Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual […]

Tales of horror as floods hit Brazil

In all her 74 years Lorena Martins had never seen anything so horrible: a torrent of foul, rust-colored flood water engulfing her modest home in Brazil, taking away everything but her family. With help from her son-in-law, Martins steps out of a boat manned by firefighters who managed to persuade them to abandon their home […]

Tales from his sleazy past could hurt him doubly

Donald Trump held a little rally at a construction site in New York before his trial commenced on Thursday morning. He glad-handed the workers and passed out pamphlets that claimed he would end Biden’s electric vehicle mandate. They all seemed to like him but, of course, they would, as Fox News reported that the attendees were solicited […]

How Jesus was nearly swept away by a wave of unpleasant tales

When Jesus was young, another boy bumped into him in the village street. Jesus cursed him – “You shall go no further on your way” – and the boy dropped dead. His parents complained about Jesus to Joseph and Mary: “Teach him to bless, and not to curse; for he slayeth our children.” This was […]