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Trump’s Message: Blame Others; Embrace Violence

Ezra Klein has an excellent video on the essence of Donald Trump’s message, and why it’s frightening. If this has already been posted here, I’ll take this diary down, but I searched and couldn’t find...

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Thoughts on Trump's "If we don't have a border, we don't have a country"...

I was just listening to a clip from one of Trump’s Arizona speeches yesterday, and something struck me. He was declaiming about how we need a wall along the Mexican border, because without a wall, “We...

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Hillary vs. Trump: Within the margin of error

The George Washington University Battleground Poll, conducted jointly by Democratic and Republican polling firms, finds that in a matchup of Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, Hillary leads nationally...

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Many Trump expenditures going to Trump cos.

One reason Donald Trump has so little cash on hand may be the generosity with which he’s paying his own companies. For example, of the $838,774 the campaign spent on air charters, nearly $350,000 went...

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The Big Lie about U.S. tax rates

Trump’s acceptance speech was full of lies and untruths, but one that drove me up the wall was when he said:America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world.The reason it drives me up the wall...

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What happened to the President forecast overnight?

Yesterday, the DKos President forecast was at an 82% likelihood of a Hillary victory. Today, it’s down to 74%. Yet I can find no new polls that would explain this sudden drop. What’s more, the 538...

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The interesting background of Trump's defender

Late on Friday, the Trump campaign put forth the name of a supposed “witness” to the incident between Donald Trump and Jessica Leeds aboard a trans-continental flight out of New York City during 1980...

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How to help in Philly?

I live in suburban Baltimore, where I have already voted. The fact that there is a transit strike going on in Philadelphia right now worries me. A lot of people in the city depend on public...

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In honor of a very special veteran

Today is Veterans Day — a day to honor ALL veterans, and a day that is timed to remember Armistice Day in World War I. But in the midst of my profound depression about what happened to this country on...

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Trump's pick for Ambassador to Israel

It’s difficult to know which is the most horrendous pick of Donald Trump so far, but a good argument could be made that his nomination of David M. Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer, as Ambassador to...

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Chaffetz going after head of OGE

Predictably, GOP Representative Jason Chaffetz, the head of the House Oversight Committee, is going after Walter Shaub, the head of the Office of Government Ethics. Chaffetz has invited Mr. Shaub to...

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Trump attacking intelligence community again!

Poor, pathetic little Donnie Trump is again taking to Twitter to attack our intelligence community and defend his BFF, Vladimir Putin. Here is today’s Twitterstorm from Hair Fuhrer:xIt now turns out...

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Sean Spicer blatantly LIED about Metro ridership

Baghdad Bob Spicer, in his tirade today, told an easily verifiable LIE about Metro ridership yesterday and on President Obama’s last inauguration. He said that Metro ridership yesterday was 420,000,...

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Trump to refugees: So you risked your life for us? SCREW YOU!

It was monstrous enough that Trump issued his inhumane Executive Order on immigration yesterday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, when one of the things we should be remembering is our nation’s guilt in...

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Trump lies again

Our so-called President used Twitter to lie again last night. He Tweeted the following:xIt is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our...

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A Plea to the Ossoff campaign

There is a point of not only diminishing returns, but NEGATIVE returns, when your supporters’ email boxes are flooded with multiple pleading, begging, increasingly desperate pleas for funds EVERY...

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BREAKING: Trump asked Comey to end Flynn investigation

The New York Times is reporting that after a February meeting with Comey and other intelligence officials, Trump asked Comey to stay behind and asked him to end the Flynn investigation. They are also...

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Trump Jr.'s "modified limited hang-out"

Well, so much for the "there's no evidence of collusion" argument, since Donny, Jr. yesterday ADMITTED that they were trying to collude with the Russians. His first story was that the meeting with the...

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This is what Christianity is all about to me

The pastor of my church has been doing a series of sermons this summer on compassion. Yesterday’s installment was on "Loving the Stranger" and focused on the responsibility of Christians to refugees...

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Is Trump trying to foment an anti-Muslim pogrom?

It’s difficult to come to any other conclusion after reading 3 tweets from far-right British politician Jayda Fransen, the acting leader of BritainFirst. Just how odious is Ms. Fransen? In 2016, she...

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