Easter messages
An Easter message from a head of state: Religious holidays are special days, during which the society enjoys intense feelings of unity, solidarity and brotherhood. Easter is one of the most important...
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The libertine’s one-way ticket from Prague
One of the most specific accusations in Christopher Steele’s dossier on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia was that Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen had made a trip to Prague in August or...
View ArticleThere’s ordinary genius. Then there’s this video
omg this is amazing pic.twitter.com/TOlAIKvPl5 — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 14, 2018
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“I take it the answer is: ‘No comment’?”
“Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, what’s your plan if President Trump fires Robert Mueller?”
View ArticleInquiring Minds Want To Know
Most of the questions surrounding the President’s payments to Ms. Clifford could be answered if the President would only provide us with copies of a few documents: Copies of the cancelled checks used...
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The smoking gun and the scarlet letter
To review. Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to serve as President of the United States, by either mental capacity or moral character. The procedure for removing an unfit President is basically by way...
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Arbeit Macht Frei
A photo in a handout given by the management of the Casa Padre detention centre in Brownsville, Texas, to MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff. The centre houses child migrants separated from their parents by...
View ArticleAspirational history and political rhetoric
Steve Schmidt – who is as unapologetically conservative as I am unapologetically liberal – had more or less the same reaction I did to the Trump policy that literally tears children away from their...
View ArticleImmigration
A moment of sympathy for Republicans. Trump won’t protect them from the agony of an immigration debate or lead them through it in any useful way, and now they are being tasked by the zero-tolerance...
View ArticleLanguage gaps
I have been reflecting on two traditional habits of our media that have become not only dysfunctional but actively destructive. First, reporting on Trump as though he is a basically serious person....
View ArticleLanguage gaps, extension of remarks
Just for the record, I need to add to the list of words needed to discuss Trump, especially in view of Helsinki: groveling credulous servile lackey abject cringing abased inept gullible dupe Needed:...
View ArticleA Poissible Outcome
Whatever hold Putin has over Trump, the Donald is sorely mistaken that, by doing Putin’s bidding, it will not come out. As soon as Putin has wrung everything he can out of Trump, there’s little doubt...
View ArticleDonald Trump, MS13 operative
Donald Trump talks about MS-13 more than any other NGO (no, I haven’t got actual numbers to support this), and it’s not surprising. He loves American exports, and MS13 was made in USA prisons and...
View ArticleKavanaugh’s reputation destroyed in real time
Brett Kavanaugh is, as far as we can tell, a respectable and competent lawyer and jurist. He could have had a distinguished, or at least successful, career as a federal judge. Now he’s the latest...
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Judge Incitatus
You all know that the crazy Roman Emperor Gaius Caligula (ruled 37-41 CE) made his horse a consul. Right? Wrong. There is no evidence whatever he did. The source of the story – Google tells me the only...
View ArticleAnother liar
President Trump has nominated a fossil fuel advocate, Bernard McNamee, for a vacancy on FERC. McNamee is a professional energy lawyer, and has worked for a big utility and a Koch-funded think tank. He...
View ArticleRead it here before it happens (Khashoggi)
Mohammed Bin Salman: We are shocked—shocked! that a rogue band of operatives misunderstood my idle reflection (“will no one rid me of this turbulent journalist?”) and committed this terrible crime. We...
View ArticleStaffing for success
Every management book says choosing the right lieutenants and partners is critical to success for any enterprise: always surround yourself with the best people. Even Donald Trump at least paid lip...
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Dayspring Mishandled?
(Explanation for the obscure title at the end) I should not be telling you this, but I think readers have a right to know before the weekend. The Steele dossier on Trump’s numerous shady ties to Russia...
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Donald Trump’s War on Coal
“They want to be miners, but their jobs have been taken away. And we’re going to bring them back, folks.” – candidate Donald Trump on August 10, 2016, with similar statements on many other occasions....
View ArticleWhy you can skip the SOTU
The word considerable does not mean what most people think it does. It means “needing or deserving of consideration” , not “big” or “a lot” . It means what everything Donald Trump says is not, and...
View ArticleThe sleep of reason brings nightmares
Nothing combines Trump’s ignorance, cruelty, fecklessness and desperation like [what I suppose is] Stephen Miller’s idea of sending refugees into sanctuary cities. It’s nature imitating art, Brers...
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Trump’s War on Coal II
In January I posted a piece on coal under Trump, concluding My prediction is that the pace of closures, and the loss of mining jobs, will roughly triple. How’s it going? The coal plant closures...
View ArticleTrump’s War on Coal III
Previous posts in this series: Donald Trump’s War on Coal , Trump’s War on Coal II In January I looked at the state of US coal and concluded: It is highly probable that demand for coal will fall by...
View ArticleUnpublished Op-Ed
Mark Kleiman and I wrote this in February 2017, but never had it published. I thought that it might be worth posting at this time. Some Words of Advice for Federal Employees Receiving directives...
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Trump’s War on Coal IV
In the second of this series of posts, I reported on data from the SEIA and consultants WoodMac that cast doubt on FERC’s forecasts of “highly probable” new solar installation in the USA. I went so...
View ArticleImpeachment open thread
I don’t have anything interesting to say about this, but commenters might like a space for a discussion, so here it is. As a peg, let me suggest the very practical question whether House Democrats...
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Hokusai’s solution for Covid-19
I posted this famous image six years ago, and you all know it, but like all good icons it bears endless repetition: Hokusai, Great Wave off Kanagawa, ca. 1830 Hokusai’s Great Wave has a moral. It’s to...
View ArticleA thought prompted by watching a press conference of President Donald Trump
The choice faced by American electors in November will not be between good and evil. It will be between normal and evil. PS: not my parting thoughts, which will be much more obscure and have pretty...
View ArticleAdieu to the felon Trump
The loyal remnant of RBC readers deserve one last chance to let off steam about Donald Trump. Your budget foreign soothsayer predicts: 1. Based on current polls: Joe Biden will be elected President in...
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