2024-03-20 11:03
Trump has lots of financing options available. He needs to use them and stop whining. Let’s consider Trump’s financing options.
1) Assuming The Trump Organization has equity i… Read More
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2024-03-04 12:03
Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged for hundreds of years. Since October 2023, many people have been talking about a “Palestinian genocide.”
For many decades, Israel… Read More
2023-10-04 16:10
Republicans in the House succeeded in getting rid of Speaker McCarthy.
For a long time, a group of House Republicans wanted to get rid of McCarthy because he wouldn’t go along w… Read More
2023-10-03 20:04
I may have never heard so many House Republicans — all of them — completely divorced from reality.
Whether they like or hate Speaker McCarthy, they are all talking as if the… Read More
2023-06-30 21:15
There are several problems with the SCOTUS Lorie Smith decision.
Smith objects to the possibility that if she were to expand her graphic design business to include website design, she mig… Read More
2023-06-28 00:14
Looking back, the overall increase in LGBTQ hate has been measurably escalating since 2016. 2016 is when the tide sharply began to turn against many minority groups in America. The… Read More
2023-01-15 13:49
Let’s consider the Biden Classified Documents scandal.
The Biden team found classified docs in Joe’s former office at the Penn Biden Center.
The Biden team does not know h… Read More
2022-12-16 18:53
Musk is lying.
None of the journalists whose accounts Musk suspended from Twitter on Thursday ever Tweeted his location in real time.
Musk likes free speech as long as it doesn’t… Read More
2022-10-27 13:50
Let’s look at Paul’s Econo-Political Crystal Ball:
2022
In the last two months, US inflation growth has slowed.
Monthly US inflation rates will stay ab… Read More
2022-10-27 12:45
I heard recently that Republican Party candidates are doing really well against Democratic Party candidates in November election polls because of the U.S. economy, especially relatively high… Read More
2022-07-16 12:37
Many people — especially Republicans — say they want a small United States government that doesn’t regulate much or interfere in the free-market economy.
But when… Read More
2022-07-01 23:52
Apparently the GOP does not know that “antifa” means “antifascist.”
The GOP is very much against “antifa.”
To the GOP, antifa is very bad.
The GO… Read More
2022-04-14 16:42
On April 7, the US Senate Confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS by a vote of 53 to 47.
The GOP members of the Judiciary Committee — especially Lindsay Graham — have… Read More
2021-11-20 20:43
Kyle Rittenhouse.
He was found not guilty of any crimes despite killing two people and wounding a third with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.
Please do not try to tell me that Kyle Ritte… Read More
2021-08-11 23:07
I wonder if Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will soon eliminate all laws over driving.
Honestly, if you use his logic, people should be able to make their own decisions about how fast they… Read More
2021-06-22 21:28
You can win all the battles over early voting, amount of time polls are open, maintenance of voter registration records, and forms of ID.
If you win all those battles, then whoopdie-ding… Read More
2021-06-21 14:00
Expanded unemployment benefits ended in four states on June 12. And they ended in eight more states on June 19.
Many people — primarily those who own restaurants, retail stores &mda&hell…Read More
2021-05-28 17:42
The majority of Republicans in the United States Senate have voted against creating a bipartisan commission, evenly staffed and composed of Republicans and Democrats, to investigate the Janu… Read More
2021-04-29 19:14
Building unity. Many Republican legislators in the United States House and Senate have said that they don’t think President Biden has done a good job of building unity with them. Well… Read More
2021-04-20 20:34
I am sitting here this afternoon, waiting for the Derek Chauvin verdict in the George Floyd case. I have prepared myself for “not guilty” on all counts, because that is how all (… Read More
2021-04-16 19:36
There have been quite a few shootings lately — the most recent happened this morning in Indianapolis. Eight people died at a FedEx facility after someone opened fire late Thursday, Apr… Read More
2021-01-21 12:37
I listened to Trump accept the Republican Party’s nomination and, during that speech in 2016, describe “American carnage.” During that nomination acceptance speech, I… Read More
2020-11-17 20:27
As we have seen, Trump did much better in the November 2020 election than he was expected to do. More people voted for him than many polls indicated would be the case. When asked why they li… Read More
2020-10-16 10:42
SCOTUS Candidate Amy Coney Barrett has committed lies of omission in her application to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, which she provided to the US Senate.
According to… Read More
2020-10-15 15:55
Trump was explicit. Months ago, he said he would nominate Supreme Court justices who would rule that Roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care Act were unconstitutional and should be struck down… Read More
2020-09-22 20:54
In the aftermath of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 2020 election year SCOTUS Shenanigans have reached a fever (dream) pitch.
Sen. Mitch McConnell now claims… Read More
2020-08-31 23:11
Trump spent a significant amount of time at the Republican National Convention August 24-28 campaigning on the idea that, if re-elected, he would be the “law and order president.&rdquo&hell…Read More
2020-07-29 01:57
On July 23, Trump canceled the in-person portions of the Republican National Convention in August in Jacksonville, FL, citing the Coronavirus pandemic in Florida.
But at the same time, Tr… Read More
2020-07-20 22:58
In a case of amazing GOP unemployment stupidity, many Republican legislators are focused on “not paying people more in unemployment benefits than they could earn if they were working… Read More
2020-07-06 13:37
A large amount of data about the coronavirus has accumulated during the last several months. These data show the coronavirus positive tests increasing. Trump insists that the rising number o… Read More
2020-05-23 14:20
Trump owns this Coronavirus carnage. He insisted for months that there was no need to do anything, despite many briefings from experts — many times and for several weeks — about… Read More
2020-04-20 03:27
Some people have gotten very upset that they cannot peaceably assemble and not risk getting Covid-19. It is simply a matter of peaceable assembly and Coronavirus risk.
For them it is an… Read More
2020-04-15 17:17
First, God said:
“I tried to warn you. All during the campaign I let all the news networks give him $4 billion worth of free coverage, hoping you would understand and not vote for h… Read More
2020-04-07 13:56
SCOTUS has committed an act of brazen voter disenfranchisement. Wisconsin is a GOP prototype for the November election.
From the New York Times: “The stakes were apparent in the law… Read More
2020-03-18 10:11
Anybody remember that Barack Obama proposed a $1 Trillion stimulus plan to pull the United States out of the Great Recession, because businesses and consumers were not spending, and therefor… Read More
2020-03-13 15:36
People are fond of comparing Coronavirus to Seasonal Flu Seasonal Flu.
They cite statistics like: “34,000 people died from the flu last year in the United States. But so far only 41… Read More
2020-03-12 03:51
According to The New York Times, “President Trump announced on Wednesday night that he was taking action to stem the spread of the coronavirus by suspending most travel from Europ… Read More
2020-03-04 21:34
This is the dangerous, immature and irresponsible core of Trump’s belief system: the Trump approach to risk is reactive. He is not only deeply ignorant about how vaccines work, as he d… Read More
2020-03-01 12:19
This has been an important week in the Trump administration’s handling of the Coronavirus public health concern. Expressed in three words: Pence gags Fauci.
Earlier in the week of… Read More
2020-02-26 17:51
According to Politico and other sources: “The White House has hired a college senior to be one of the top officials in its powerful Presidential Personnel Office, according to three ad… Read More
2020-02-03 22:23
When the GOP members of the Senate vote to acquit Trump, they will effectively crown him king of the United States. King Donald Trump.
He will be able to do whatever he wants without nega… Read More
2020-02-01 19:26
The GOP Senators voted against allowing witnesses and new evidence at Trump’s impeachment trial because, their leader McConnell said, they have seen and heard enough evidence, which wa… Read More
2020-01-10 13:16
It is not a coincidence that Trump, Iran and Ukraine came together recently.
Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane in Iraqi airspace earlier this week. Specifically, Iran shot Russian-made mis… Read More
2020-01-02 02:25
James Comey has spoken up again about Donald Trump.
Comey wrote an article in The Washington Post in which he discusses what it’s like to be the object of Trump attacks. He has done… Read More
2019-12-23 01:31
Some Trump supporters have accused Democrats of calling Donald Trump insensitive or evil.
Let’s consider the facts.
Trump is grossly insensitive and mean. No one can look at… Read More
2019-12-20 11:39
Many people have been comparing the Trump impeachment and the Clinton impeachment. I allude to the quote from Gertrude Stein very deliberately and ironically.
Please let’s remember… Read More
2019-12-01 12:05
Some people think that impeachment will strengthen chances for Trump re-election. However, I think it’s not so simple a calculation. The likelihood of impeachment increasing odds of a… Read More
2019-10-16 16:07
United States President Donald Trump surprised many people in early October by ordering an abrupt removal of US troops from Syria. Those US troops had been working with Kurds to protect lan… Read More
2019-09-11 21:09
Emoluments. To make a point about Trump and his emoluments, let me start with a hypothetical:
Let’s say Donald Trump were the United States President and he owned a privately held c… Read More
2019-08-30 12:30
According to Benjamin Wittes in lawfareblog on Aug. 29, 2019, “Inspector General Horowitz of the Justice Department has determined that it is misconduct for a law enforcement officer… Read More
2019-08-21 23:44
During his campaign Trump made many campaign promises. People who think he’s doing a great job would do well to remember how he has failed in keeping those Trump campaign promises… Read More
2019-08-05 14:45
On the prevalence of gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular in the United States: Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, blamed mental illness and social medi… Read More
2019-07-18 16:52
Enduring Trump Example 1: American Conservative rhetoric — expressed as dialogue —goes like this:
Conservatives: Immigrants need to assimilate into our country, learn our hist… Read More
2019-07-15 16:35
President Obama’s administration deported a record 2.5 million people who were in the US illegally. The Obama administration did this without theatrical ICE raids or holding people in… Read More
2019-07-05 03:02
Why are my tax dollars paying for today’s Trump 2020 re-election campaign event?
The Republican National Committee doled out tickets to high-value donors, though none were distribu… Read More
2019-06-24 02:27
According to the New York Times on June 23, 2019, “President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a&nbs&hell…Read More
2019-06-15 12:34
All the Democrats screaming to impeach Trump now are getting ahead of themselves.
No one should move to impeach Trump in summer of 2019. It is too early to pursue impeachment, and there i… Read More
2019-06-05 18:27
The latest gambit in the abortion wars opened today. On June 5, 2019, The New York Time reported this:
“WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the fe… Read More
2019-06-01 15:29
After weeks of silence, Special Counsel Robert Mueller III spoke about the contents of his Mueller Report at a quickly arranged public appearance at the Justice Department on May 29, 2019… Read More
2019-05-22 10:43
During recent questioning in Congress, Ben Carson demonstrated that he is not familiar with the common term real estate term “REO,” which means real estate owned.
Rep. Katie… Read More
2019-04-10 20:51
Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, said on Tuesday, April 9, that people “shouldn’t be attacked for what your religious beliefs are,” responding to recent… Read More
2019-04-02 17:04
People are once again examining the way former Vice President Joe Biden has behaved with women.
Lucy Flores recently described how uncomfortable Biden’s kissing the back of her hea… Read More
2019-03-30 15:06
The Mueller report has been the subject of a lot of discussion this past week. There has also been a lot of discussion about the length of the report. The report is the result of Special Cou… Read More
2019-03-30 15:06
The Mueller report has been the subject of a lot of discussion this past week. There has also been a lot of discussion about the length of the report. The report is the result of Special Cou… Read More
2019-02-15 17:52
Trump has declared a National Emergency because Congress won’t appropriate money for his border wall with Mexico.
First, Trump promised that Mexico would pay for a border wall.
S… Read More
2018-12-23 22:13
United States President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Sunday morning, Dec. 23, that Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis would be out of his cabinet post by Januar… Read More
2018-10-09 02:38
You may remember this. In late September 2017, according to CNN, “Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users… Read More
2018-10-06 15:58
The opening remarks of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, at his confirmation hearing on Thursday, September 26, contained the following paragraphs, in quotation marks.
“Less than two weeks ago… Read More
2018-10-06 15:58
Kavanaugh’s opening remarks at his confirmation hearing on Thursday, September 26 contained the following paragraphs, in quotation marks.
“Less than two weeks ago, Dr. Ford pub… Read More
2018-10-02 04:32
Some people say that Christine Blasey-Ford is being “used” by Democrats to further a two-pronged political agenda.
Recently, these folks have insisted that Democrats want to use… Read More
2018-10-02 04:32
Some members of the GOP have said that Democrats are using Christine Blasey-Ford to advance a two-pronged political agenda.
Specifically, these folks have insisted that Democrats want to use… Read More
2018-09-30 12:31
Brett Kavanaugh, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was and is interviewing for a position as a Justice on the US SCOTUS.
Would you hire… Read More
2018-09-30 12:31
Brett Kavanaugh is currently Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Recently, Kavanaugh has been interviewing for a position as a Justice on the US… Read More
2018-09-07 10:23
On September 6, 2018, Rudy Giuliani announced that Trump will not respond to any questions about obstruction of justice from Robert Mueller. He won’t respond in writing or any other wa… Read More
2018-07-16 10:10
People who claim that Russian election interference had no impact on U.S. election outcomes are completely wrong.
Watch this and remember what Hillary Clinton told us 8 days before the… Read More
2018-06-23 20:09
The owner of a Virginia restaurant, The Red Hen, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave the establishment on June 22, 2018.
According to the United States Supreme Court, it’s perfe… Read More
2018-06-19 18:05
Discussing its immigration policy at a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders explained yesterday that the Trump administration will continue to separate children and pare… Read More
2018-06-16 14:37
The Trump administration recently enacted a new immigration policy. This policy may have several purposes — some obvious and others less visible.
The Department of Justice, Depart… Read More
2018-06-09 15:09
On Friday, before he arrived late and left early at the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec, US President Donald Trump rankled the other G7 leaders by suggesting that Russia be readmitted to the… Read More
2018-06-08 09:44
Deeply troubling but not surprising New York Times story about the EPA, the Trump Administration, and potentially harmful chemicals we may be exposed to every day.
“The Trump administr… Read More
2018-05-15 10:55
Recently, Dahlia Lithwick received the 2018 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis. This is the substance of her acceptance speech. It reflects her insightful perspective on the strug… Read More
2018-05-01 03:49
Based on a huge explosion of tweets and print news articles and on-camera interviews, Michelle Wolf’s comedy routine, delivered at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 28, 20… Read More
2018-04-13 12:03
Today is Friday the 13th. It’s an ominous day. Many superstitious people fear this day will bring dreadful or even lethal events upon their lives.
According to an article from The Guar… Read More
2018-04-07 14:18
Desperately insecure about his role in the US Presidency, Trump tweeted Rasmussen Reports poll data showing him with a 51% approval rating on Thursday:
Why is he so insecure about being Pre… Read More
2018-03-20 03:53
Months ago, I began to read about Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign. From various sources, I learned about how the Trump campaign had hired Giles Parscale to influence voter percept… Read More
2018-03-10 12:54
Like a child who has not obeyed its parents, North Korea has violated international agreements it has entered into for many years. It has done so repeatedly. There is a clear track record of… Read More
2018-03-01 10:46
The White House and Jared Kushner expect us to believe that Kushner did not arrange loan deals for his private real estate business when he met with private equity and banking businessmen in… Read More
2018-03-01 10:46
The White House and Jared Kushner expect us to believe that Kushner did not arrange loan deals for his private real estate business when he met with private equity and banking businessmen in… Read More
2018-02-22 17:28
Trump has recently proposed arming teachers with guns.
He says that this will protect students. He says that putting guns in classrooms will deter would-be shooters from going into schools a… Read More
2018-02-22 17:28
Trump wants to arm teachers with handguns.
Why?
To protect students, he says.
This is a flat-out lie.
He wants to arm teachers with concealed-carry handguns in order to sell more guns and ma… Read More
2018-02-21 13:22
The Trump Organization has very likely been money laundering the financial proceeds from Russian organized crime for years.
As a result, Trump doesn’t want or cannot do three things. F… Read More
2018-02-21 13:22
My take: The Trump Organization has been laundering Russian organized crime money for years.
This is why Trump doesn’t want special counsel Robert Mueller III’s team or the FBI t… Read More
2018-02-17 16:19
On Saturday, February 17, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted a lie about Russian meddling in our election and his run for the United States Presidency.
He tweeted, “Russia started their anti-U… Read More
2018-02-10 18:59
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2018-01-31 01:28
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2017-12-20 11:43
Trump and the rest of the GOP have been insisting that their new tax reform bill is going to cause the economy to explode. According to them, there is going to be this surge of new business… Read More
2017-11-30 18:19
On the one hand, according to historical data, there is no correlation or causation between a tax cut and economic growth.
GOP lawmakers, insisting that tax cut bills in process wo… Read More
2017-11-30 18:19
On the one hand, according to historical data, there is no correlation or causation between tax cuts and economic growth.
GOP lawmakers, insisting that tax cut bills in process would re… Read More
2017-11-25 18:10
How well do you know the news? And how do you compare with others in your demographic group?
This quiz from the Pew Research Center will give you some insight!
Thank you to CalamityPolitics… Read More
2017-11-17 12:58
The claim by many Republicans that cutting taxes on businesses will lead to wage growth is completely absurd. They are using this claim to promote enormous tax cut bills in the House and Sen… Read More
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