Showing posts with label Political Polarization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Polarization. Show all posts
Friday, May 19, 2023

Jamaal Bowman Finds His Voice. Some Republicans Don't Like the Sound

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Interesting. At NYT , " The Democratic congressman has made a habit of brashly confronting Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene, oft...
Friday, April 28, 2023

'But There Are Lawsuits Coming in the Wake of Dominion Voting...' (VIDEO)

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Here's Bill O'Reilly on Tucker Carlson's termination . The old dog is showing his age.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Thoughts on Tucker Carlson's Firing

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At the Last Refuge, " First, Carlson was being paid about $20 million a year by Murdoch. He had about 3 years left on his contract and...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Another Biden-Trump Presidential Race in 2024 Looks More Likely

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And there's been so much hope for DeSantis too.  But this does seem about right. At the Wall Street Journal , " Biden’s impending c...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

How the 2022 Midterms Became a Squeaker

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At the New York Times , " Interviews with more than 70 current and former officials show the outside forces — and miscalculations and i...

Why Independent Voters Broke for Democrats in the Midterms

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Trump's radioactive, it turns out.  If he's not now, we'll know for sure after he makes his big announcement on November 15th . ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.

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At the New York Times , " The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there’s a pervasive sense of loss in districts wher...
Monday, July 4, 2022

Supreme Court Ruling on Roe v. Wade Further Polarizes a Divided Nation

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You'd think it couldn't get any worse. We've been viciously divided for years, but yeah, the Dobbs decision was like throwing g...

Bette Midler, Tipping Point

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I don't know if we're tipping or not, though I wouldn't have thought old Bette would be sounding the tocsin. On Twitter: Tipping...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

To Trump's True Believers, January 6th Was an Act of Faith, Ashli Babbitt's a Martyr, and White Is Not Only a Race, But a Spiritual State

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Following-up, " Georgia Election Worker Shaye Moss, And Her Mother and Grandmother, Terrorized by Trump Followers After 2020 Election (...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Jeremy S. Adams, Hollowed Out

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At Amazon, Jeremy S. Adams, Hollowed Out: A Warning about America's Next Generation .
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Let the Pre-Criminations Begin: NBC 'News' Interviews White House Staffers and Discovers That Joe Biden Is a Very Cranky Old Man Who's Blaming His Staff For His Disastrous First (and Only) Term

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 At AoSHQ, " Before getting to that -- and it's worth getting to -- I'll note that Biden's approval rating has fallen to 34...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

The Real Reason America Doesn't Have Gun Control (VIDEO)

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From Ronald Brownstein, at the Atlantic , " The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson Discusses New Book, The Dying Citizen (VIDEO)

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His book's at Amazon, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America . And t...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

On Stephen Breyer's Retirement

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Lots of hysteria over this , thought it's technically unimportant, as there'll still be a 6-3 conservative majority on the court (5-...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

George Packer, Last Best Hope

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At Amazon, George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal .
Monday, January 10, 2022

Why the U.S. Military Isn't Ready for Civil War

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A huge platter of food for thought. At Foreign Policy , " Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War ": The unimaginable has ...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War

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At Amazon, Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future .
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Democracy Isn't Dying

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I've been saying this all year. Basically, despite the disruptions and violence, the system worked. The rest is just politics. At WSJ , ...

Biden Blasts Trump in January 6th Address (VIDEO)

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He just looks old, cranky, and mean.  For all the devastating problems we've got, this is all he's got. This is all the Democrats go...