politics
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Senate Republicans Did What Is Right (Nation Needs More Congressional Stewardship)
In yet another example of ongoing excessive overreach by the Trump White House, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell comes under attack, the need for pushback is so obvious that even Senate Republicans have drawn a line in the sand. Failing to modulate Donald Trump’s absurd political pressure against the central bank, elected members of the Continue reading
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Charles Michelson: The Man Who Saw Hoover Clearly, Lesson For Trump Years
I want to write this column about a newspaperman who understood the times in which he lived and then worked to report on what it meant for the people. He also revolutionized political marketing as the first party official dedicated to media outreach. When reading 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, which contains many memorable personalities, Continue reading
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Divorced Males And Donald Trump
Why do a significant portion of divorced white males support Donald Trump? Could we flippantly ask how they ever got married? This week on Facebook, a male who graduated from Tri-County Schools in Plainfield, Wisconsin (as I did) blamed the woman who was murdered in Minneapolis. I was simply aghast. I had known this person Continue reading
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President John Kennedy’s Values vs. Gross Spectacle Of Donald Trump
The repulsive feelings we have for what is happening to our nation, and our utter disgust with those who allowed this to happen in 2024, go without my needing to write it here. It also goes without my needing to write that Donald Trump’s supporters were likely never aware of President-elect John F. Kennedy’s City Continue reading
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Minneapolis ICE Shooting Is Moral Dividing Line
When we explained in 2024 to our family and friends why it was dangerously wrong to cast a ballot for an authoritarian candidate running for president, there was a range of feedback. Reasoned people grasped the larger issues on the ballot, such as character, the foundation, and values of our nation. Others openly rejected facts Continue reading
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Democrats Don’t Need New Message For 2026 — Use One Already Screaming At Us
Some Democrats are already tying themselves in knots searching for the perfect “message” for 2026. Should it be inflation and price pressures? Should it be the controversial military attacks on Venezuela and maritime trade? Should it be some new economic slogan or kitchen‑table issue framed in a way consultants can test‑market it in suburban focus Continue reading
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Donald Trump Fails To Understand ‘It’s The Economy, Stupid’
It is not unusual for a president to seek out foreign policy when the stubborn and often embarrassing issues at home make for unrelenting headlines. With the economy not producing lower grocery prices, or more optimism for people wishing to be new homeowners, or when new Jeffrey Epstein documents show a troubling linkage with a Continue reading
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Why Parents Keep Their Kids Away From Trump Supporters In Family
I heard again over the Holidays why some parents will not allow their kids to be around family members who support Donald Trump. More evidence as to why they do not want the kids around the racist and toxic conservative came this week as Trump gestured like a drunk idiot as he made an impression Continue reading
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Lest We Forget, January 6th And The Treasonous Coup Attempt
What the vast majority of the United States well knows is that Joe Biden solidly defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Even 6th graders know that there needs to be 270 electoral votes to win and that Biden earned 306 of them to Trump’s 232. Biden received 51.3% of the vote compared to Continue reading
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