November 6th was a bad night for President Trump, no matter what he says. He now has to deal with a newly empowered opposition party with a mandate to check his myriad abuses and scandals. The rebuke wasn’t as harsh as it needed to be, though. Trumpism, which is essentially …
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“I’m in a state that does not look to women to lead,” Paulette Jordan says. Not lately, at least. “There was a whole legacy of women leaders who were chiefs,” says the former Idaho state representative, present candidate for governor and member of the Coeur d’Alene people. “It’s this line …
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Legendary senator John McCain has died after a nearly year-long bout with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 81. “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on 25th August 2018,”his family said in a statement. “With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their …
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The traveling sad-clown show that is latter-day Rudy Giuliani appeared on cable news Monday morning to begin another work week with a torrent of laughable claims and theories about the federal investigation closing in on his client, President Donald Trump. The always-risible, factually-suspect “there-was-no-collusion” mantra chanted by the president’s many …
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President Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, already has signaled that he will be sympathetic to the president’s legal position in the looming court showdown over the Russia investigation. For all we know about Trump, that may be the single most important reason why he picked Kavanaugh to succeed …
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One month ago, The Denver Post editorial board made news with a package of columns clustered around a tell-it-from-the-mountain screed decrying the degradation of local journalism at the hands of the out-of-state hedge fund and the yes-people that run the newspaper – and dozens of other papers across the country. …
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Rudy Giuliani hurt President Trump and his lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen Wednesday night if he told America something about those Stormy Daniels hush-money payments that federal prosecutors didn’t already know. But of course they knew. Even before Giuliani’s disastrous Hannity interview, I believe Mueller and his larger team could have proven …
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Amid mounting political pressure to legalize marijuana in New York, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of America’s largest city, remains locked in a prohibitionist mindset. At a press conference this week touting a new campaign to stamp out vermin (not a euphemism), the mayor fielded a question about pot. Seated …
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One of the odder bits of the public controversy surrounding President Trump and the Russia investigation is how Robert Mueller, James Comey and Andrew McCabe have become lumped together, as if all three G-men were the same. The president made that accusation explicit on Friday, tweeting“McCabe is Comey!!” But actually, …
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To President Trump, science is fake news. Worse, it can’t be intimidated, bullied, or bought off. You can’t grab physics by the pussy or sic your lawyers on it. On climate and public health issues, Trump and his cronies have proven their hostility to science over and over again: They’ve …
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