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THE DEALS BIDEN MADE W/THE GOP WERE DREADFUL
His rose-colored view of the GOP makes you wonder if he was really on the Democratic side, as the man who may have been responsible for so many of Obama’s capitulations, who stood there and did nothing as Moscow Mitch … Continue reading
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NEITHER THE OBAMA NOR TRUMP ECONOMIES ARE GOOD ENOUGH
2020 Democratic presidential candidates need to keep reminding the electorate that Trump inherited what is considered a strong economy from Obama, but that in both economies the majority of jobs being created have been low-wage. Most of America does not … Continue reading
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FOX “NEWS” PERSONALITIES SURE SEEM TO TAKE A LOT OF VACATIONS
Looks ike the easiest way to pick up six or seven figures of slag these days–besides occupying the Oval Office–is to posture and demonize on Fox “News.” Every time you become so vile and objectionable that advertisers head for the … Continue reading
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I AM PRO-ISRAEL AND ANTI-NETANYAHU
So I’m very proud of the Jewish peace groups in America who are making clear that those two things are not mutually exclusive, as much as neo-Nazi supporter Donald Trump would have you believe otherwise.
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COULD DENMARK PLEASE BUY THE UNITED STATES?
Then we could have universal health care and see the Royal Danish Ballet whenever we wanted.
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UM, WHEN. . .
is that Washington Post series on Jeff Bezos’s and Amazon’s tax avoidance going to run, again? Case closed. But I frequently enjoy reading the Post’s political coverage.
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BUT SANDERS HAS THE EVIDENCE
The Washington Post is supposed to be part of the fact-based community, and usually it is. But not when it comes to Bernie Sanders. FAIR’s Julie Hollar has collected incontrovertible evidence of how biased is the Post’s coverage of Sen. … Continue reading
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ALLEGRA KENT TALKS
Not only a legendary ballerina, but verbally as well as physically articulate: Allegra Kent will be interviewed by Mindy Aloff at the Library for the Performing Arts on October 7. And there’ll be movies!
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WHICH ABJECT FAILURE AND CATASTROPHE WILL THE “MAINSTREAM” MEDIA LIONIZE NEXT?
Remember, Trump was all but conjured out of thin air by the “mainstream” media, which assisted him in creating an utterly ersatz persona and narrative. Let’s scan the horizon and head off the media’s creation of the next Trump!
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A STUDENT OF TOTALITARIAN SOCIETIES
told me she was horrified by Trump’s senile, demagogic rant in Pennsylvania, finding particularly ominous his attempt yet again to float the trial balloon of lifetime dictatorship, framed ( for now) as a joking hypothetical. She reminded me that Trump’s … Continue reading
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