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Why Does Trump Conceal What He Discussed With Putin?
The statement above is Donald Trump's reaction to a Washington Post story about the abnormal secrecy Trump has imposed over his one-on-one meetings with... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Public Doesn't Support Wall, Shutdown, Or Emergency
The charts above use information contained in a new Washington Post / ABC News Poll -- done between January 8th and 11th of a national sample of 788 adults, wit... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The ACLU Lists 5 Lies Trump Tells To Get His Border Wall
(This caricature of Liar-In-Chief Donald Trump is by DonkeyHotey.) Donald Trump seems determined to build an unnecessary wall between Mexico and the United... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Americans Say NO To Declaring An Emergency For A Wall
The government remains shutdown, and is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump is still trying to cause undocumented immigration a crisis fo... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Another Poll Shows Americans Don't Want Trump's Wall
The chart above is from a survey done by the Public Religion Research Institute. As other polls have shown, the American public simply doesn't want a border wal... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Has Putin Compromised Trump And Now Controls Him?
(Cartoon image is by Kevin Siers in The Charlotte Observer.) There's been a lot of talk on cable news and social media the last few days about a New York Times... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The House Must Act Now To Raise The Minimum Wage
The chart above shows a national tragedy. Millions of Americans make at or near the minimum wage, and many of them are single parents trying to raise a child... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Is Not Helping Himself (Or The GOP) With Shutdown
On January 7th and 8th, Public Policy Polling surveyed adults in seven states -- Alaska (898), Arizona (741), Colorado (706), Georgia (943), Iowa (1,031),... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
House Of Representatives Should Expel Steve King (R-Iowa)
The graphic image above leaves little doubt that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is a racist and a white supremacist. This is not the first time King has showed his... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Evidence Says Trump Campaign DID Conspire With Russia
The names in the column to the left are the members of Donald Trump's family and campaign staff that met with Russians during the presidential campaign and/or... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Democratic Party Changes Won't Help Sanders In 2020
(Photo of Bernie Sanders, from cnbc.com, is by Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images.) Bernie Sanders finished about 3,000,000 votes behind Hillary Clinton in the... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Is Utterly Incompetent At Political Negotiating
(This caricature of "great negotiator" Donald Trump is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump told voters that he,... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Will Donald Trump Take The Authoritarian Way Out Of His Self-Imposed Dilemma?
Today marks the 20th day of Donald Trump's shutdown of the government. In only two more days, the shutdown will be the longest government shutdown in United... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Polls Agree - Public Blames Trump For The Shutdown
The Reuters / Ipsos Poll was done between January 1st and 7th of a national sample of 2,203 adults, with a 2 point margin of error. Read more
Posted on 10 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Nine "Border" Facts That Trump Ignores (Or Lies About)
(Cartoon image is by Lalo Alcaraz.) We are in the third week of Trump's border shutdown. He's done it to try and force Congress to give him $5 billion to start... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The U.S. Health Care System Is Broken & Needs Big Changes
The charts above are from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They show that health care in the United States costs more than twice the cost... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Ideological Make-Up Of The American Public
The charts above reflect information in a recent Gallup Poll. Gallup questioned 13,852 adults during 2018 to find out their ideological stance. The poll has a... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Senator Warren Reports On A Very Successful Trip To Iowa
Council Bluffs, Iowa Sioux City, Iowa Storm Lake, Iowa Des Moines, Iowa In the final days of 2018, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) declared her... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
More Independents Than Democrats Or Republicans In U.S.
This chart is from the Gallup Poll. They questioned 13,852 adults in 2018, and the poll has a margin of error of only 1 point. As the chart shows, there are mor... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate Makes Economic Sense
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has proposed adding a top tax rate of 70% that would only apply to income of over $10 million. Republicans are... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY