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How the Case for Voter Fraud Was Tested — and Utterly Failed

By Paul | Published June 20, 2018

Jessica Huseman at ProPublica: That made the trial a telling opportunity to remove the voter fraud claims from the charged, and largely proof-free, realms of political campaigns and cable news shoutfests and examine them under the exacting strictures of the rules of evidence. That’s precisely what occurred and according to [Chief District Judge of the […]

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More Than Just Russia

By Paul | Published June 12, 2018

Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept: Did Trump directly conspire with Vladimir Putin and Russia to influence the 2016 election? That is certainly possible. Will we see concrete evidence of that, especially evidence that would stand up in a court? That also is possible. […] But this much is clear: It is a major mistake to […]

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Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to buy guns…

By Paul | Published February 15, 2018

Annalisa Merelli and Heather Timmons writing at Quartz: In a tweet early this morning, Trump framed the shooting it as he has done in the past, describing Cruz as a disturbed and “erratic” individual. The trouble is, Trump has made it much easier for mentally-disturbed Americans to buy guns in the United States.

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Donald Trump Jr., Sub-Master of the Universe

By Paul | Published July 13, 2017

Matt Bai, writing at Yahoo News: Say what you will about President Trump, and I’ve said plenty; you can’t say he ever lacked for what New Yorkers call chutzpah. He had the brass ornaments to risk his modest inheritance, to plow through bankruptcies, to court public humiliation in pursuit of far-flung enterprises. I actually admire […]

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Trump decides not to invoke executive privilege, not that he could

By Paul | Published June 6, 2017

John Dean, writing at CNN: As a leading student and expert on the subject of executive privilege, Mark J. Rozell, has written, it is an accepted doctrine when appropriately applied in two circumstances: (1) certain national security needs and (2) protecting the privacy of White House deliberations when doing so serves the public interest. Clearly, […]

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How should the media cover a White House that isn’t afraid to lie?

By Paul | Published February 2, 2017

Thanks for watching. Strikethrough is a new Vox video series focusing on media coverage in the age of Trump, or, as Sean Spicer would say, the biggest, most impressive video series of all time.

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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Inauguration

By Paul | Published January 25, 2017

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was at Trump’s inauguration Now coming up to the stand are the Trump sons, also know as the less-motivated Menendez brothers. Do you like Melania? Did you see those naked pictures of her? Oh my god… well, let’s just say they should call her Laura No-Bush It’s like a pickup […]

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President Obama interviewed by Dateline’s Lester Holt

By Paul | Published January 17, 2017

President Obama on Dateline NBC, “Barack Obama: The Reality of Hope”, 1/13/2017: If you had told me at the beginning of my presidency, the day after in fact of my winning the presidency, that eight years later the economy would be stabilized, we would cut unemployment in half from its peak, that the stock market […]

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The Unchained Goddess (1958)

By Paul | Published November 5, 2016

We’ve known about anthropogenic global warming for decades and decades… “The Unchained Goddess” (1958), produced by Frank Capra and the fourth film in the Bell Laboratories Science Series (1956-1964): Even now, man may be unwittingly changing the world’s climate through the waste products of his civilization. Due to our release through factories and automobiles every […]

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California governor signs controversial right-to-die bill

By Paul | Published October 6, 2016

Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law today by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, making it the fifth state in the nation to give terminally ill patients a legal right to die. As hard as it may be to believe in today’s ultra-political culture, my Mom–who was an RN–told me […]

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