Breaking News: Trump Backs Down On Family Separations
Multiple media outlets are saying that Donald Trump has said that families will no longer be broken up at the border and children taken away from their parents. Though exactly what happens instead remains a little difficult to determine. The change in policy comes after weeks of intense criticism from, seemingly, every pressure group in…
Read MoreZero Tolerance, the Word of God?
Children torn from the arms of their parents and encaged, along with other young castaways, under the pretense of following the law. Law? Whose law? This president’s law? This Attorney General’s law? This Secretary of Homeland Security’s law? And presuming that it is the law, what law has been broken? Seeking asylum by attempting illegal…
Read MoreA Streetcar Named Disaster: Part 2
1. Last week, we introduced you to “The ART,” the Albuquerque Rapid Transit system. The story that follows is Part 2 of that A.R.T. tale, and we offer it not just because the story takes place in Albuquerque, the place where LR Net has its home office, but also because it is uniquely instructive. Specifically,…
Read MoreTrump the Almighty
Meghan McCain admits President Donald Trump is acting like a “dictator,” but she blames Democrats for failing to come up with a message to stop him. Marc Keyser, TheResistance.Blog Donald Trump is a liar, a pathological liar, he coordinates with the Russians to rig th e election in his favor, he is the…
Read MoreHolding our Noses and Voting for Moderate Democrats
The perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Old Italian aphorism Democrats have a small chance to become the Senate majority party after the November 6 elections. The Senate balance is currently 51/49 (Republican/Democrat, including two Independents, who caucus Democratic). So, we badly need to win at least two GOP seats, without any…
Read MoreIs That Really Trump’s Tweet?
Interesting article over on Bill Palmer’s Palmer Report page. While Trump was in Singapore, giving away the store to Kim and otherwise making America look ridiculous, he also notoriously tweeted about his own wonderfulness for getting a “Deal” with the North Koreans. Specifically, he wrote “The fact that I am having a meeting is a…
Read MoreJust In Case The GOP Doesn’t Get It…
So, Trump is saying that Democrats are responsible for tearing children away from their parents… Come again?
Read MoreAnn Coulter Calls Border Children “Actors”
Oh, dear God in heaven… Ann Coutler apparently said on Fox News that the children you see weeping in detention centers after they’d been torn from their mothers were actually just “child actors” and that no one should pay the slightest attention to them. This is horrible… Not only is it cruel and unfeeling and…
Read MoreTrump’s Space Force; A New Way to Boost the National Debt
When he’s not tearing children from their parents and putting them in cages in Texas, trying to figure out how to build a wall between the US and Mexico, spending inordinate amounts of time tweeting half truths about the media or swinging a golf club at one of his golf resorts, our President likes to…
Read MoreIt Wasn’t Just Russia
Fascinating article over on The Intercept this week. Check out Jeremy Scahill’s More Than Just Russia — There’s a Strong Case for the Trump Team Colluding With Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE. In it, Scahill says that Trump and Trump’s minions may have colluded with Russia to get the White House, but it is…
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