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When is enough — enough? In the case of Donald Trump, a human being of excessive delusions of grandeur, there is no end to what he will claim, all at the same time that he accuses the media of putting out ‘fake’ news. Well, let’s take a look at who’s...
by ottovr
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on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 03:11 PM PST
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Billed as a “Swedish Defense and National Security Advisor,” Nils Bildt was a featured guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show this past week. Brought on to rebut the factual information U.S. correspondent for the newspaper Expressen Anne Sofie Näslund, Bildt...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 10:01 AM PST
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One of the effects of Donald Trumps campaign, made dramatically worse when he became President, is his degradation of the English language. He has shown that complex concepts are only internalized by a large part of the public when they are...
by arodb
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on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 11:09 AM PST
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I just cannot stop perusing the news, looking for hope! Happened on a story about trolling Drumpf voters. Drumpf voters unable to tell satire from “fake news” or any kind of news. Feel the need to post angry e-mails & tweets about a satirical...
by john972
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on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 08:53 AM PST
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A casual perusal of the Sunday New York Times comes up with a couple of editorials that ought to have Right-thinking people up in arms, or at least shaking their heads in disgust. (Is pairing Right with Thinking an oxymoron these days?)
The...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Feb 26, 2017 at 09:10 AM PST
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The story of Ed Murrow taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy has been well chronicled in books, movies, and documentaries. But, as a young man, I heard the story from one who was there. I heard it from the man who reviewed and edited Ed Murrow’s copy...
by Homer J
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on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 07:09 PM PST
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[The following is excerpted from Woodward and Bernstein’s “All The President’s Men,” 1974, published by Simon and Schuster, about the Washington Post’s investigative journalism into the “Watergate” case, which led to the resignation of President...
by JGunn
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on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 10:43 AM PST
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Although Fake News has sadly become part of the mainstream American discourse thanks to tRump, we all know that Fox News has been perfecting Fake News for quite some time. This past week was no exception.
After President tRump babbled incoherently...
by davidkc
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on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 09:26 AM PST
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Last week tRump alluded that Sweden was involved in a terrorist act of some sort. His statement:
You look at what's happening last night in Sweden! Sweden! Who would believe this, Sweden!
Was ridiculed as yest another “Alternative Fact” or as...
by Buster40004
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on Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 07:25 AM PST
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“Follow Me ! All of You needing to be United, while Dividing YourSelves and America, to my Agenda of a Dismantled and Destroyed Administrative State (which upholds overall, long struggled for, American Human Rights, Civil Rights, Values and Norms) !” ...
by Leah Sellers
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on Fri Feb 24, 2017 at 01:22 PM PST
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So today this happened at CPAC.
“Obamacare covers very few people. And remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved, that was taken away from them,” he said. “Millions of people were very happy with...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Feb 24, 2017 at 11:33 AM PST
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It's going to take a long time for the American presidency to recover from Donald Trump. In one interminably long month he has already brought both failure and shame to the nation. And the nation has noticed. Trump is suffering the worst approval...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Feb 24, 2017 at 08:15 AM PST
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I came across this media bias survey in my face book feed (through a share to RAD Politics) and it is very therapeutic to complete the survey. Irony is lost on these incompetent fools in that they are using a worthless survey to prove that media is...
by eashep
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 05:55 PM PST
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While many of us remember our childhood as a carefree time of fun, friends and family the real objective of childhood is preparing us for a productive life conforming to the mores, morals and ...
by RationalPolitics
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on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 03:00 AM PST
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Donald Trump criticized Barack Obama for the amount of golfed he played while president. Now, Trump is coming under heavy criticism himself for the amount of times he has hit the links in only his first month in office.
As of last week, Trump has...
by Kentdorfman
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 10:42 AM PST
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”[1]
That’s a great philosophy, but in the absence of divinely-inspired wisdom, how the heck ARE we supposed...
by JGunn
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 10:06 AM PST
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NO, THE SKY ISN'T RED!
AUTHOR NOTE:
I WROTE THIS PIECE WITH TRUMP FOLLOWERS IN MIND, THOUGH I SINCERELY DOUBT VERY MANY OF THEM WILL READ IT.
Your guy says look at the sky, it's red. So you look up, and your eyes tell you, no,...
by Dee Dawning
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on Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 05:45 AM PST
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Since anti-Trump rallies are not going to let up any time soon, here’s an idea for a rally theme. All posters carried to the rally should contain ONLY a direct Trump quote (with citation) or a trump Tweet. 2 comments
on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 11:35 AM PST
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by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Feb 21, 2017 at 06:50 AM PST
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From the NYTimes re Trumps insinuation that a terror attack occurred “last night” in Sweden.
“You look at what’s happening,” he told his supporters. “We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s...
by Idontknowwhy
13 comments
on Mon Feb 20, 2017 at 12:58 PM PST
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