Lesson from Trump #1
Lesson #1 from the Trump victory: The more your campaign relies on Get Out The Vote to win, the more out of touch you are with the voters.Get Out The Vote implicitly takes the voter to be apathetic...
View ArticleThe Fine Line Between Alarm and Hysteria
Readers may remember news stories that appeared after Obama’s election and after his re-election, of the surge in the sales of guns and ammunition “before Obama takes them away”.We who are on the side...
View ArticleTrump's Twitter Tactics [updated]
Trump came to power with many mutually contradictory or simply impossible campaign pledges.For example:Trump cannot build that wall or get Mexico to pay for it.Trump cannot make coal cost-competitive...
View ArticleThe Logic of Kos
The founder and publisher of this site, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, has a diary up: “Be happy for coal-miners losing their health insurance. They’re getting exactly what they voted for.”Now, Kos is not a...
View ArticleRace & jobs statistic that needs correction
People are making a big deal of this front page article:Without this data on race, place, and jobs we cannot fully understand how Trump eked out a wine.g., see this diary:The data on race, place &...
View ArticleWW2 - Paris liberation made "Whites Only"
I’m flabbergasted by this BBC Report: news.bbc.co.uk/…Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a...
View ArticleHow well does Daily Kos measure up?
John Cassidy has a story in the New Yorker on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s message to the Democratic Party from which I excerpt just Ocasio-Cortez’s words, with as few additions as possible.“What we need...
View ArticleA quick note on how things ought to have worked with the Supreme Court...
In a rational world, back in July-August when Diane Feinstein first learned of Dr. Ford’s allegations, but her desire to remain anonymous, Feinstein would have walked over to Grassley’s office and...
View ArticleGiven the Daily Kos alarm at US exit of INF Treaty...- Updated
The simple fact is that per President Obama, whom we all on this web-site trust, the Russians have been in violation of the INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) Treaty since 2014.www.nytimes.com/…July 28,...
View ArticleINF Treaty - two Senate bills - S.1476 and S.430
In light of Trump’s statement that the US is going to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with the stated reason that the Russians have been in violation of the treaty for...
View ArticleObama's DOJ winked at corporate corruption
National Public Radio’s Marketplace provided an answer to the question of why no bank executives went to jail for their roles in the financial crisis of 2008.“People didn't get prosecuted during the...
View ArticleThe twisty turny road from Benghazi to Trump
The diary “Islamist Supremacists Inflict Heavy Blow on Humanity in Easter Sunday Suicide Bombings” is about the bombings in Sri Lanka by members of the ISIS-inspired National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a...
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