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“We must break the cycle of violence.”  The murder rate is growing, he almost says. “This is not acceptable.” Every American child should be able to grow up in a safe community, to attend a safe school, and to have access to a high paying job. But to create this future, we must work with — and not against; not against — the men and...

He hits his infrastructure bill. One Trillion Dollars! So Doctor Evil. Then he moved one. “I call on our people to repeal and replace Obamacare!” So much for being hard to do.  It’ll all be better, cheaper, faster, without inconveniencing anyone.  Good luck there. But it’s not like he’ll be inconvenienced. “Must protect all Americans,” is the applause line. “Save Americans from this imploding Obamacare...

Not quite live-streaming here, but I’ve got a DVR, I’ve got a really strong drink, and I’m watching damn Trump. First, he’s reading from the teleprompter, not off the cuff.  Not yet.  Is it wrong to be disappointed? Trump started with a pretty good unity message. I’m sure someone wrote it for him. He seemed unsure about many of the phrases, and he went back...

I know it’s hard to get upset with Republican hypocrisy, but why is it, I wonder, that the GOP is so set against free trade, almost across the board? If a question comes up, they dependably support monopolies, oligopolies, and any carefully protected and entrenched industry. There’s no industrial protection they won’t defend. Sure, they’re responding to their corporate overlords. Citizens’ United has corrupted the...

Wilbur Ross is, among other roles, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Cyprus PCL, and the bank’s majority shareholder. The Bank of Cyprus PCL is a murky, closed back that is reputed to be a favorite of Russian oligarchs. Since the second largest shareholder is, in fact, a close friend of Putin and one of those oligarchs, that’s a...

Listening to Rep. Tom Cotton (R-OK) talk on Meet The Press is pretty frightening. Chuck Todd asked Rep. Tom Cotton whether he’d been asked to speak to the press. He said ‘no’, but added: SEN. TOM COTTON: Chuck, I generally try to refrain from much comment about what’s happening in my work on the intelligence committee or the armed services committee, because I want to...

Pay attention to language. It matters. Trump remains outraged about how information is leaked to the press and the public, but in his mind, the ‘leaks’ are the problem, giving us the classic quote: “The leaks are real, the news is fake”. Trump, Friday at CPAC: “We are fighting the fake news.  Fake.” Too many people have already mentioned that if a leak isn’t true,...

Trump ordered DHS’s Intelligence arm to investigate the risks from the seven countries in Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban. That investigation would, he announced ahead of the actual investigation, prove that his immigration ban was really just and great, and the claims to the contrary were Fake News! The DHS, unsurprisingly, found the opposite result. AP broke this story: AP EXCLUSIVE: DHS REPORT DISPUTES THREAT FROM...