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Tag: Donald Trump

Donald Trump: Just another vagina demagogue

August 13, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Women, Youth issues One comment

I’m way past the age when worrying about menstruation is a big part of life. But I’ll never be too old to be outraged

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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: 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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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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A whimsical look at why Trump is a Republican

July 27, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

Imagine if Donald Trump had entered the 2016 presidential race as a Democrat. He could have; there is no law that would have prevented

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What Donald Trump doesn’t know about the Mexican farm workers who make his 5-star dinner possible

July 21, 2015 Renee Shur Employment, Food, Immigration, Republicans Leave a comment

Donald Trump’s sneers about Latino rapists, criminals, and druggies coming-to-harm-your-property-and-your-kids have real-life consequences. His all-too-familiar ethnic scapegoating intentionally obscures the truth about a community

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What Progressives can learn from Donald Trump

July 20, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Politics Leave a comment

You may not like what Donald Trump has to say, but you have to admit that there is a certain openness, even rawness, to

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