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• White House Is Lying About Terrorists Caught At Border

  

  (This caricature of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is by DonkeyHotey.) The government shutdown has entered its third week. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises By 0.2% In December

  

  The Labor Department released its unemployment statistics for December on Friday. The economy produced a pretty healthy 312,000 jobs. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• O'Malley Says No To Presidential Run - Endorses O'Rourke

  

  (These photos are from Wikipedia. The O'Malley photo is by Gage Skidmore. The O'Rouke photo is the official photo from his time in the U.S. House.) Martin... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Record Number Of Women (Mostly Democrats) In House

  

  These photos are from Facebook. They show the Democrats (top photo) and Republicans (bottom photo) being sworn in as members of the 116th Congress in the House... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Will Trump Get His Wall? The Public Says NO

  

  We are in the middle of a government shutdown that was caused by Donald Trump throwing a fit because Congress wouldn't fund the wall he wants to build between... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Will The 2020 Election Be About Ideology Or Likability?

  

  Almost immediately after Elizabeth Warren's declaration that she is forming an exploratory committee to run for president in 2020, two things happened. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Americans Believe The U.S. Will Lose More Respect In 2019

  

  A couple of days ago, I provided you a poll that showed Americans believed the United States lost more respect in 2018 in the eyes of the world (even more than... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• House Of Representatives Of The 116th Congress

  

  The 55th Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California). The House of Representatives of the 116th Congress has 235 Democrats and 199 Republicans. There is on... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Determined To Get A Border Wall - It Won't Happen

  

  Donald Trump doubled down on his demand for money to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. He has shut down the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Americans Have A Mixed Outlook On What 2019 Will Bring

  

  Will 2019 bring positive or negative changes? It seems that depends on specifics. In a new poll, Americans had mixed reactions to what the new year will bring. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democrats Announce Changes To House Rules

  

  (This photo, by PoliticsJunkie123 at Wikipedia, is of Rep. James McGovern of Massachusetts. He is the new chairman of the House Rules Committee.) Today the... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Did Things Get Better In 2018 - Most People Say NO

  

  These charts are from a recent Morning Consult Poll -- done between December 7th and 10th of a national sample of 2,202 adults, with a 2 point margin of error.... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Three Interesting Charts On Guns In The United States

  

  These charts are from the Pew Research Center. They relate some interesting facts about guns in the United States. The top chart is the most troubling. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is It Too Early To Declare For 2020 Race? - Not Really

  

  (This image was found at Today I Found Out.) On the last day of 2018, Senator Elizabeth Warren let us know she is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Warren Tosses Her Hat In The Ring For 2020

  

  The race for the 2020 presidential nomination of the Democratic Party has begun. There haven't been any "official" declarations, but three candidates have now... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 10 Charts That Paint A Picture Of The U.S. In 2018

  

  These charts are from The New York Times: Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 2018 Was A Year Of "Unprecedented Deception" For Trump

  

  (Cartoon image is by Paul Szep at Creators Syndicate.) For Donald Trump, 2018 was a year of unprecedented lying -- breaking even his own record set in 2017. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2019 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Likes Authoritarians - But U.S. Public Does Not

  

  Trump has shown a frightening affinity for some tyrants. He has bragged about how he is friends with them and how that is good for this country -- especially... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Majority Says NO To Trump Run For Re-Election In 2020

  

  The top chart is from the latest Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between December 23rd and 25th of a national sample of 1,500 adults (including 1,298... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The GOP Prefers Charlatans When It Comes To Economics

  

  In his column in The New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman gives us an interesting and thought-provoking op-ed on economists -- liberal... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2018 POLITICS, SOCIETY