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• GOP Is Staring To Worry About ACA Repeal & They Should

  

  The congressional Republicans are starting to worry about their rush to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). They don't yet have a plan to replace it --... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump's Politics Of Cowardice Has Changed The GOP

  

  I don't often agree with Republican columnist David Brooks (pictured), but I think his recent column in the New York Times contains a lot of truth (and food... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump's Plan To Make Mexico Pay For Wall Doesn't Do That

  

  (Cartoon image is by Steve Benson in the Arizona Republic.) Trump's idea for a wall between the United States and Mexico has always been a dumb one. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Job Creation Index In The 50 States

  

  In their polling every day, the Gallup Poll asks respondents if their place of work was increasing or decreasing its workforce. They take the number saying... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Comments

  Here is an example of some of the comments I get on this blog: I remember a certain overt hypocrite named Ted Wants A Secret (And Authoritarian) Democratic Part... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump's Two-Step Strategy To Fool The American Public

  

  (Cartoon image is by Bill Day at cagle.com.) The following article is from the website of former Labor Secretary Robert Reich: Donald Trump is such a... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congress Still Has An Exceptionally Low Job Approval

  

  The congressional Republicans may have hoped that, with the election of a Republican president, the Congress they control would see more public approval of the... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Wants A Secret (And Authoritarian) Government

  

  (This image is by Taylor Jones at cagle.com.) Donald Trump has been president for less than a week, but he has already done some very troubling things... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Pubic Supports Trump's Killing Of The TPP

  

  Americans still aren't sure about the presidency of Donald Trump, but he has done one thing a significant majority does approve -- he has killed the... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Doomsday Clock Moves Up 30 Seconds In 2017

  

  Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists resets the Doomsday Clock. This year they moved it up another 30 seconds, and it now rest at 2 1/2 minutes unti... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Texas Should Look At N.C. On Proposed Bathroom Law

  

  (The cartoon image above is by John Cole at NC Policy Watch. The teabagger Republican lawmakers in the Texas legislature are considering a bathroom bill like th... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obama Has Largest Partisan Gap Of Modern Presidents

  

  I found this Gallup Poll interesting, but not surprising. It shows that Barack Obama had the largest partisan gap of any president since Eisenhower (the gap... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Trump's Narcissism Getting In The Way Of His Presidency?

  

  Some may think the above statement by Pau Krugman is a little over the top. I don't. I think Trump is far more worried about his own image than he is about... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump's Inauguration Watched On TV By Over 7 Million Less Than Viewed Obama's...

  

  Trump got his feelings hurt by the media reporting the truth about attendance at his inauguration -- than far fewer attended it than attended Barack Obama's... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump's Inaugural Approval Is Lowest Of Modern Presidents

  

  More bad news for the narcissist-in-chief. The inaugural approval rating for the Trump presidency is the lowest of any modern president (from 1953 through 2017)... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Supreme Court Refuses Texas Appeal Of Voter ID Decision

  

  Last year at this time, Texas had one of the most restrictive Voter ID laws in the nation. But Democrats, recognizing it as a voter suppression effort by the... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Promise Broken - Trump To Cut Social Security/Medicare

  

  It looks like Donald Trump is poised to break another solemn promise -- this time to the group that gave him the most support in the 2016 election (Seniors). Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• "Single-Payer" Insurance Would Help Business And Workers

  

  (Cartoon image is by Dan Wasserman in The Boston Globe.) One of the favorite ideas of Republicans, put forward to justify massive tax cuts for corporations, is... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump Breaks His Promise To Release His Tax Returns

  

  With each passing day, we learn more and more that the promises Donald Trump made during his campaign were not real promises that he intended to keep. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dan Rather's Comment On Trump's "Alternate Facts"

  

  In the White House Press Secretary's first meeting with the media, he (Sean Spicer) told some untruths about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration,... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY