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The night the media went South

March 1, 2017 Arthur Lieber Media, Republican Brain, Trump, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Last night, I think that I finally got it: why Donald Trump feels that way he does about mainstream media, particularly CNN. Fake news.

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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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Roman circus

The Romans had it partially right about Trump

February 20, 2017 Arthur Lieber Government, Guns, Religion in Politics, Trump One comment

At the conclusion of his “Here’s my take” on his Sunday, February 19, 2017 GPS program, Fareed Zakaria referenced how Roman leaders maintained control

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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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When Republicans have their “oh shit” moment about Trump

January 31, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

There’s a pretty good chance that it won’t be too long from now that Republicans will wake up and have an “oh shit” moment

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Would Trump nominees support the 25th Amendment?

January 30, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Ethics, Justice, Republican Brain, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

Some Republicans are seeing the light about Donald Trump in the White House. While he may have led a Republican tsunami in 2016, his

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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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The imperative to test Trump’s limits

January 25, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Nuclear weapons, Republican Brain, Republicans One comment

How far will Trump go before it’s too late? We need to test the limits. President Donald Trump has already shown that he is

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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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Democratic Party does to John Lewis what Trump couldn’t

January 15, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democrats One comment

  There was no way that Donald Trump could shame John Lewis, no matter how much Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC tried to goad him

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