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Trump creates alternate reality for his TAS cult
It is indisputable to any thinking person that Russia is a foe of the U.S.
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FactCheck: Dictator, missing money and other Trump lies
Three times this week, Trump said that the U.S. had given Ukraine “$350 billion,” about double the actual amount of U.S. aid for the country.
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Standing up for Ukraine and President Trump
Do not boycott, as some are planning to do. That is leaving the field of battle.
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How can I be sanguine with Trump in the White House?
I am not sticking my neck out too far to predict Trump, with a three-vote majority, will lose the House in the next election, effectively tying his hands.
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Americans awake to the reality of President Trump
That’s according to a Washington Post – Ipsos poll that mirrors findings in other recent polls taking America’s temperature when it comes to the reign of Donald J. Trump. Before digging into the stats, regular followers may recall that I said #47 would go too far (it is in
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Scorecard: The first 4 weeks of Trump II
There hasn’t been such an activist rookie* President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. I used the * because Donald J. Trump is a rookie in his second term, so he’s different from FDR in that way. But not in his ambitions. Not in his desire to expand the powers of
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Unfair criticism and what Trump needs to learn
“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” That’s what candidate Donald J. Trump said in August while stumping in Montana. By now you know the Consumer Price Index increased 3% in January over a year
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Cry baby Dems need to pick their fights with whirlwind Trump
Wrecking ball, bull in a China shop, disrupter, Constitution-buster — choose your own metaphor. Just about everything President Donald J. Trump has unleashed in the first three weeks of his second term is what he said he would unleash. He was not kidding. He was prepared. Call it shock and awe,
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Trump’s Gaza takeover seems crazy, but maybe . . .
Among a plethora of ideas flowing from the hyperactive mind of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. “owning” Gaza is among the worst. Before I continue, to calm the MAGA wolves who are baring their fangs, here is a partial list of things he has done right: Enforce the
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After a great Week 1, a series of stumbles
President Donald J. Trump’s first week was pretty damn good. He kept promises by signing a flurry of executive actions, as he promised. You may not like them, but he ran on them and followed through. Promises made, promises kept. His inauguration day was also a triumph with him
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Sanctuary cities plan to defy immigration law, still
I see a strange, unlikely parallel between the promise of churches to resist deportation of “migrants” (correct term, illegal residents) and the action of churches 60 years ago to protect civil rights protestors. The crucial difference is the civil rights protestors of yore were trying to demand federal law, while
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Trump mixed fact and fantasy in inaugural
In a generally forward-looking, brusque, and patriotic inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump went off the rails toward the end, making promises that were unenforceable, silly, or dangerous. Unenforceable is his desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He can call it the Gulf of