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Ban Syrian refugees from gun-lax TX, says NRA-backed TX lawmaker

November 18, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Guns, Immigration, States Leave a comment

Tony Dale, a Republican State Representative to the Texas legislature, wants to ban Syrian refugees from his state because it’s too easy for them

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Trump calls MU leaders weak, but look at what happened at Trump U.

November 12, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Education Leave a comment

After student protests at the University of Missouri resulted in the resignation of Tim Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri system, Donald Trump

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What does the Republican say: Marco Rubio edition

November 4, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

AlerNet reports that, at a town hall meeting at St. Anselm College today [Nov. 4 2015], Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was asked to

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Screw the poor: Not expanding Medicaid cost red states $2 billion in 2015

October 25, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, States, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Squandering $2 billion dollars in essentially free money is not what anyone would call “fiscal conservatism.” But that’s exactly what the phony fiscal conservatives

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Americans are too charitable

September 9, 2015 Arthur Lieber Charity & Justice, Food, Homelessness, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

You can tell a lot about a society by what its citizens compliment themselves about. You might also learn a great deal about a

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Trump to nation: Political system is rigged against you

August 12, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Corruption, Democrats, Republicans One comment

  In a rare, and perhaps historical, moment of truth telling in presidential politics, Donald Trump told 24 million Americans that wealthy people like

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Trump: Republican strategy taken to its logical extreme

August 11, 2015 Susan Cunningham 2016 Election, Republicans Leave a comment

I’ve heard people saying that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party. I beg to differ. Trump is just the logical extension of the

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You can be mean and still sound rational

August 10, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Media, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

A recent article published here on Occasional Planet stated that the Republican debates last Thursday night were not as much of a clown car

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Republicans’ letter to Iran: Indefensible

March 10, 2015 Steve Sorkin Foreign Policy, Republicans Leave a comment

Are there no Republican leaders with a sense of decency anymore? Any of them who respect the office of the President, even if they

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Republicans haven’t beheaded anyone yet…but

February 25, 2015 Susan Cunningham Missouri region, Republicans, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I recently watched a segment on Rachel Maddow’s show about how the US State Department is seriously trying to combat the propaganda ISIS puts

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They Quit Trump

student loan

Student Loan Watchdog Quits Trump Administration with scorching resignation letter

August 28, 2018
Steve Schmidt

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt renounces GOP membership

June 20, 2018
Fox

Why he quit: Fox News analyst denounces propaganda channel

March 21, 2018
resignation

Why he quit: Dept. of Interior scientist blasts Zinke in resignation letter

October 5, 2017
DACA

Why he quit: Leader of Trump’s diversity council resigns over DACA

September 5, 2017
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Why he quit: Scientist resigns from Trump’s State Dept. with a biting message

August 27, 2017

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