Poem

A Gathering Gale

Overhead: the soaring sounds, Calling.

Down here: The edgy electricity Jostles limbs, Loosening blackened blooms And thickened tassels Of tiny pears to the back porch Wind chime chatter.

Damn these winds! To stir stale oceans, Stomping seasons, And lifting life anew In their leaving.

— Sam A. Flanagan

torney General William Barr and some 50 state and federal judges — but the movie is also based on “flawed analysis” and “faulty data.” D’Souza, meanwhile, really did plead guilty in 2014 to violating federal law by making campaign donations in the names of others to sidestep contribution limits. As such, we stand by the Journal’s May 19 summation of 2000 Mules: “Another steaming pile of propaganda and right-wing bullshit from Dinesh D’Souza, who pled guilty to felony charges stemming from illegal campaign contributions in 2014.”

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