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Miracles do happen

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

As I said in a recent post, I did not intend to watch the debate, and I didn’t. However, my wife did, and while she very considerately removed her Ipad and herself to another room while she watched, I couldn’t help overhear some of it in real time. My own impression was that she was […]

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Hillary’s debate prep

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

I must admit that I had the same reaction as Atrios when I read this in the New York Times: Hillary Clinton’s advisers are talking to Donald J. Trump’s ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” seeking insights about Mr. Trump’s deepest insecurities as they devise strategies to needle and undermine him in four weeks […]

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Trump’s future?

Friday, August 19, 2016

This got me thinking when I read it: Minutes ago Conor Friedersdorf published a piece in The Atlantic speculating that when the Trumpanzee loses his consolation prize may be a whole new right wing media juggernaut, “that challenges Fox News for supremacy on the right across all platforms.” Even discounting Mercer, he wrote that “If […]

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If this captain goes down, he’ll take the ship with him

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

This is delicious: More than 120 Republicans have drafted a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, begging him to cut off Trump. “Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the […]

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I feel his pain

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Matt Bors, a cartoonist who posts at Daily Kos, has a problem: I feel his pain. Many of the blogs I visit regularly spend a lot of time explaining why Donald is wrong about this or that, or why we can indeed interpret his most recent (I think it’s his most recent) moronic statement to […]

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Trump opens mouth, doesn’t lie

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Strange but true. It seems Hillary raised $90 million dollars last month, while Trump raised $35.8 million. Trump didn’t just drop that in to remarks, he bragged about it.  “It’s gonna be announced tomorrow or the next day: we’ve raised, we think, about $35.8 million. This is unheard of for Republicans, $35.8 million,” Trump said. […]

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A modest proposal, and an observation.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Apparently Donald Trump is trying to get out of the debates. Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of intentionally stacking debates against prime time programming to “rig” the election process, despite the fact that the schedule has been set since last September, Politico reports. Said Trump: “As usual, Hillary and the Dems are trying to rig […]

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Beyond Plagiarism

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

In all the fuss and fury over Melania Trump’s plagiarism, something has been overlooked. The point of her speech was to introduce her husband to the somewhat dubious side of the country-you know, the folks that are not stark raving mad. So, consider this particular piece of plagiarism: Trump told GOP delegates on Monday: “From […]

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Trump’s logic: in the Republican tradition

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Donald J. Trump said Sunday that a Muslim judge might have trouble remaining neutral in a lawsuit against him, extending his race-based criticism of the jurist overseeing the case to include religion and opening another path for Democrats who have criticized him sharply for his remarks. The comments, in an interview with John Dickerson, the […]

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A nomination for surrogate

Friday, June 3, 2016

Good article here about HIllary’s recent speech skewering Donald Trump. There is a silver lining, however alloyed it might be, in having Hillary as our candidate. The Donald doesn’t know how to handle strong women, and it is beginning to show. I’ve said before that I really think Hillary should have a band of female […]

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