Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The Environment Will Go To Hell, and We Will Go To War

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So Trump wants to increase military spending by $54 billion and slash environmental protections and strangle the State Department, because ...
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"Nobody Knew"

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Trump on Sunday, in front of the nation's governors, talking about health care policy-making: “I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Today's Protest at Virginia Foxx's Office

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Part of the substantial crowd that showed up this afternoon outside Virginia Foxx's Boone office, demandin...
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"Enemy of the People" -- A Little History

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The phrase Trump has been using and repeating about the news media -- they are "enemies of the people" -- was first used in a po...
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Sunday, February 26, 2017

"First, We Get the Power, and Then We Ban the Press"

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"We have a respect for the press," said Sean Spicer, soon after his boss had won the presidency but before the inauguration, a...

Gonna Be a Busy Spring in Court

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Jim Morrill and Michael Gordon have produced a useful primer on some major court challenges to  recently passed Republican laws in North Ca...
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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sweet Dreams, Citizens

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You might be witnessing the destruction of American democracy if... 1. ...a president demonizes a free and independent press. 2. ...a pr...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Bannon's Bumptiousness

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Yesterday in front of the CPAC audience -- a gathering of conservative warlords and high priestesses -- Trump's puppet-master Steve Bann...

The Mountain Has Moved Closer

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"If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain." For the nonce, "Muhammad" = Sen. ...