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Category: 2016 Election

Joe Biden talks about courage and empathy: a unique combination

September 15, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Ethics, Good government, Republican Brain Leave a comment

Many people think that the Stephen Colbert interview with Vice-President Joe Biden on Thursday, September 10 was seminal TV. Both had suffered tragic losses

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Is Obama endorsing Biden for President?

August 25, 2015 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, Obama One comment

On August 24, White House press secretary Josh Earnest responded to reporters asking about Joe Biden possibly running for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton:  

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The “President Trump,” Seven-Days-in-May scenario

August 13, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Foreign Policy, Military, War Leave a comment

If you were a child of the ‘60s, one of the most gripping novels and then movies was Seven Days in May (video link

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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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Republican forum: Not as much of a clown car as I had expected

August 4, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Media, Republicans One comment

Maybe it was the format: Each of the 14 Republican candidates for President was questioned individually in 5- to 6-minute segments, with no audience

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National Review compares Bernie Sanders to Nazis: Offensive and inaccurate

August 3, 2015 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Media, Obama, Republicans 2 comments

Commentators cannot seem to leave the memory of Nazi Germany alone. Nazi comparisons became especially heinous after the 2008 presidential election, when haters compared

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Trump knows how to reform campaign finance

July 31, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

Earlier this week I received one of those odious phone calls with a political candidate asking for, you guessed it, money. I wish that

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Why Donald Trump will not run as a third-party candidate

July 30, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to bolt the Republican party and switch his Presidential “candidacy” to a third party. News media are taking this

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