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Monthly Archives: July 2016

My liberal heart is bleeding

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

I feel so bad for Gretchen Carlson: Former “Fox & Friends” co-host Gretchen Carlson alleged in an explosive lawsuit filed Wednesday that Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes fired her for rebuffing his sexual advances and challenging a sexist newsroom culture. Carlson, who spent 11 years at the network, described being ostracized and marginalized […]

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No, No, No, it just can’t be

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Back in 2008 I supported Obama over Hillary, and I’ve never really regretted it, though I’ve often thought that had Hillary been elected she would have entered office with a huge majority in both houses and no illusions about the prospects of forging bi-partisan agreements. She would, I thought, have known better, given her own […]

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Trade talk

Sunday, July 3, 2016

A diarist at Kos asks what the fact that Trump is “running to the left” of Hillary on the TPP means. I found this post interesting for a number of reasons. First, opposition to the TPP is not necessarily a “left” position. If it is, it is a position in which the left and right […]

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Strange Mugfellows

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Today my family celebrated three birthdays that occur around this time of year, mine being one of them. My son and daughter in law, along with a real gift, gave me a mug, which they got at the Vermont Country Store of all places, which bears the pictures of various Democrats. Suffice to say, they […]

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