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Author: Bill Kesler

Before Bill Kesler retired in 2007 as vice-president of production for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he worked for more than 20 years as a photojournalist.

Lies, more lies and then Pinocchios for Trump

February 26, 2017 Bill Kesler Government, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Poor fact-checkers. The lies coming out of the White House just won’t stop. The Washington Post uses Pinocchios to score just how bad a

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Going after Federal regulations: Trump discovers ‘dark matter’

February 1, 2017 Bill Kesler Government, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

In his first weeks in office, Donald Trump has been all about executive orders. He has also talked about going after Federal regulations. But,

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Park rangers go rogue on Trump

January 28, 2017 Bill Kesler Government, Trump Leave a comment

Everybody loves park rangers. You know, those folks in the Smokey-the-Bear hats. Friendly, courteous, helpful. Now they are emerging as rogue force of resistance

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Trump’s tweets: a taxonomy of trouble

January 20, 2017 Bill Kesler Ideas, Language/Words, Media, Trump Leave a comment

We have done such a poor job of processing Donald Trump’s tweets. Our reaction has always been to immediately parse the literal content. Fact-check

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Make the pie higher: nostalgia for W in a Trump era

December 9, 2016 Bill Kesler Language/Words, Politics Leave a comment

Recent references to Donald Trump’s bizarre ramblings in interview transcripts (Trump’s NYT transcript: Read it, and weep for our country) make one yearn for

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kettle logic

Trump’s Freudian kettle logic

November 29, 2016 Bill Kesler 2016 Election, Trump Leave a comment

Donald Trump recently posted a series of tweets slamming Jill Stein’s call for a recount. The contradictory nature of those tweets was a perfect

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Trump, the great businessman? Maybe not

September 22, 2016 Bill Kesler 2016 Election One comment

One can always count on Robert Reich to make savvy observations about politics and finance. Bring the two topics together, and it makes for

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Dancing with Claire and ghosts of Democrats past

January 12, 2015 Bill Kesler Activism, Congress, Democrats, Missouri region Leave a comment

I recently received an email from Senator Claire McCaskill, D-MO, asking for my ideas about Congress’ efforts in the months to come. As Claire

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Aircraft “boneyard” paints a picture of military spending

September 24, 2014 Bill Kesler Budget, Military Leave a comment

They look almost prehistoric. Like  ancient pictographs drawn on the wall of a tomb. They are Google Earth views of the Davis-Monthan Air Force

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yachts

Mega-yachts for the mega-rich, and the Cayman connection

April 16, 2014 Bill Kesler Business, Taxes Leave a comment

Spend a little time on the Ft. Lauderdale water taxi and you’ll soon get a feel for the world of the 1% of the

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