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BLOODLINES
Wanted to find out exactly how intimately I am connected to Broadway legend! Mean and legendary producer Abraham Erlanger was my great-grandfather Samuel’s first cousin. I would imagine that my grandfather Joseph, of Low & Johnson and then Joe Low … Continue reading
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THE GOP PAID NO POLITICAL PRICE FOR IMPEACHING CLINTON
Where does Nancy Pelosi get her history? Isn’t imaginary facts the GOP’s department? Does she forget that they won everything in 2000? Btw, the manner in which Rep. Tlaib shut down Rep. Jordan’s mad-dog-at-a-Soviet-show-trial shtick shows exactly why & how … Continue reading
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THE SQUAD IS THE BEST THING THAT’S HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATS IN A LONG TIME
The Democrats were so moribund that they weren’t even able to get to their knees to beg the Republicans for mercy because they had so chronically shot themselves in the feet.
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ANOTHER EXCERPT
From my father’s book: Long Island, 1943: Most Friday nights my father now took me with him to services at the nearby Merrick Jewish Center. Once bar mitvahed, a child is deemed an adult for all religious purposes. As a … Continue reading
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TRUMP HAS GOT PRIVATE COACHING FROM ALL THE BEST DICTATORS
His criticize-me-and-you’re-unpatriotic, because I AM America, is sheer totalitarian dogma, as practiced by his best friends around the globe and his beloved forbear in Germany.
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WHY (AND HOW) TRUMP, McCONNELL & THE GOP CAUCUS HATE AMERICA
If you love a country, do you poison its children? If you love a country, do you destroy its democratic institutions? Their assault on this country is summed up very well by Andrew Florentino at Daily Kos.
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WHY SCHUMER AND PELOSI CAN’T CUT IT
Adam Serwer writes in The Atlantic: “The Democratic Party cannot fulfill its constitutional responsibilities because its leadership lives in abject terror of being ejected from office by alienating the voters to whom Trump’s nationalism appeals. In effect, the majority of … Continue reading
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IT’S TIME TO SUE
The Squad must now sue neo-Nazi apologist Donald J. Trump for his flagrantly defamatory charges against them, his alleging that they made anti-Semitic remarks that they simply did not make.
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KEEP IT GOING
Footage of that obscene smugness on Trump’s face at his Nuremberg really the other night as his crowd of hate-besotted idolators surrendered their free will and duly shouted “Send Her Back” in obeisance to their Supreme Leader — must be … Continue reading
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HOPE HICKS BELIEVES PRAYER SHOULD BE AN AID TO OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE
Hicks is another one of the corrupt, criminal morons Trump surrounds himself with, and the revelations in the materials unsealed today she’s presented in all her true colors.
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