Tag: Donald Trump
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After Anthony Kennedy, we are about to find out how bad it will get
Chased out of the Red Hen? Just the opening salvo May have been in the New Yorker, a cartoon depicting a highway with the road sign reading “Schadenfreude Next 20 Miles.” This has been a very good week for the Great Rightwing Conspiracy and assorted Deplorables. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered three grand slam decisions topped…
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Perking up and paying heed of socialists while ordering take out at the Red Hen
We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two Cue John Nichols in 5 … 4 … 3 … Too late! An avowed socialist has beaten (like a rented mule) the #4 Democrat in the U.S. House of Reps. in Tuesday’s primary election (06-26-18) in Bill DiBlasio’s New York. Joseph Crowly had…
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The world may not like the U.S. but do they respect us?
Essential to the art of the deal is to say ‘No Deal’ Photo of the day is Germany’s Angela Merkel in a cluster of Europeans going nose to nose with Donald Trump at the G-7 summit in Quebec, while Trump sits serenely with arms crossed. No need to translate that body language! The New York…
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About that Blue Wave: Not so fast!
Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover? All we know here at the Stately Manor is what we read in the Boys Weekly Reader, delivered to our marbled doorstep in a plain brown wrapper. But results from Tuesday’s primary elections across the country (but not here in Wisconsin) would seem…
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‘Obama was just too good for us’
We were not worthy; so we replaced him with a rascal Is the worm turning? • Talks with North Korea are back on. • The job market is the best in 18 years. Wages are up. • Even some Democratic strategists think Republicans could actually pick up seats in the U.S. Senate. • Trump’s approval…