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Mueller

Liberals Put Too Many Eggs in the Mueller Basket

April 9, 2019 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

The Mueller report is out: No further indictments have been recommended. The full contents of the report aren’t yet known, but we know at

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Smarther-than-5th-Grader

In defense of Trump, and 5th Grade Students

February 21, 2019 Arthur Lieber History, Trump Leave a comment

From the very beginning, Donald Trump has had difficulty understanding that the Justice Department is not like every other cabinet office. He does not have unilateral control of it. The Justice Department can bite back at him, and he doesn’t like it.

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immigration

Zero tolerance for Trump’s cruel immigration policies

February 1, 2019 Renee Shur Children, Immigration, Trump One comment

On December 8, 2018, seven-year-old Jakeli Caal, a Guatemalan refugee who endured a grueling journey with her father to seek asylum in the U.S.,

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Kelly-O'Donnell

NBC Nightly News Goes Trivial when the nation needs Insight

January 21, 2019 Arthur Lieber Immigration, Media, Trump Leave a comment

What was not mentioned was that Trump not only did not express empathy for federal workers, he did not even acknowledge their existence.

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trudeau

Justin Trudeau trumps Trump’s dumbed-down view of immigration

January 19, 2019 Renee Shur Immigration, International, Trump Leave a comment

At a recent town hall meeting in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a tough question about Canada’s immigration policies. Trudeau’s low-key

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nauert

Nauert: Another unqualified Trump appointee, another step backward in world affairs

January 3, 2019 Renee Shur Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Sometime in early 2019 Heather Nauert, Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will go before the Senate for confirmation hearings.

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E. Coli

Trump delays farm-water testing. Americans get E. Coli

November 27, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Food, Good government, Health, Science, Trump, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

Donald Trump is making us sick—and I mean that literally. Some food experts are claiming that the recent outbreak of E.Coli contamination in Romaine

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PEN

PEN writers’ group sues Trump over abuse of First Amendment

October 21, 2018 Renee Shur Activism, Constitution, Legal issues/Law, Media, Trump Leave a comment

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

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new deal

A New Deal for US foreign policy

October 21, 2018 Bojan Francuz Foreign Policy, International, Trump, United Nations Leave a comment

Instead of grieving for the past, or focusing on whether world leaders laughed at or with President Trump at the United Nations, grassroots progressives

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op-ed

I Know the Identity of the anonymous Op-Ed writer

September 13, 2018 Adam Levin 2018 Election, Activism, Language/Words, Letter to the Editor, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

The last editorial I wrote for Occasional Planet was on the dangers of a potential post-Trump “unity government”. Consisting of centrists and ostensibly anti-Trump

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