Month: April 2018

Waiting Around for Trump’s Big Purge

The White House released the following photo yesterday. Trump even included it in a now-deleted tweet. (Agricultural Roundtable with members of Congress and Governors, April 12, 2018.) If you look at a close-up of chief of staff...

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The Future for Cohen and Manafort

I need to get my peepers checked and a new prescription because the eye strain headache I have right now is on almost a migraine level. So, this post will be shorter than it would otherwise be. There is someone who was just...

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Survey Results Have Bad News for Democrats

If you’re a Democrat, there is almost no good news in the latest Morning Consult governor and senator Approval Rankings. They can take comfort that it looks like they’ll be taking back the governor’s office in...

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L’état, C’est Null and Void

(I originally wrote the following as a reply to a comment that Frank Wilhoit made on Booman’s recent post “Trump is Acting Like Nixon in His Last Days.” It grew, so here it is as a standalone. And here is...

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Second Thoughts on Confrontation with Russia?

Pehaps not all military assets in place to confront Russia if Putin retaliates? Mixed signals after Mattes made a statement that “evidence” of gas attack under review … Allies France and Great Britain certainly...

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