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The title is a paraphrase by the Washington Post from one of President Trump’s morning tweets. The president was referring to the Mueller probe, but may I suggest it should actually apply to the president’s tenure in the White House? As the Manafort corruption trial gets underway the president described…

Last week someone on social media tried to troll my day by making a crack about using the blue ‘Stalin’ fist as part of our logo…LOL! Obviously the fist has a long history in labor and politics…and politics on both sides of the aisle. There was a video out last…

A brief side road from the article about third party groups running negative ads against the GOP candidates in the Republican primary to face incumbent US Senator Tammy Baldwin. Again, we have a poignant thought from Republican State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald: “There’s going to be a group that…

I have stated a number of times that tax reform isn’t simply the ‘biggest tax cut EVER’ as our president is wont to say. But what do you think should be in a tax reform bill? Well, I’ve got a few thoughts on it and invite all of you to…

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been wanting to pull a Tax Reform initiative out of his hat for years. And now the talk around tax reform is front and center as the GOP controls both houses of Congress and the White House. But the current resident of…

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas and former presidential candidate) slammed the Democrats for obstructing President Trump’s cabinet appointees in no uncertain terms. And particular attention was turned to the issues being raised about Senator Jeff Sessions history and background…he called to task accusations that Sen. Sessions is racist: The day after…

Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas was the poster boy of supply side economics…cutting taxes to stimulate the Kansas economy in a pure experiment of Reagan economics. Only it hasn’t worked out the way he and the GOP planned…in fact it has turned out exactly as you would expect when you…

Max Ehrenfreund of the Washington Post has an absolutely excellent piece about the expanding body of research by psychologists, economists and political scientists focusing on the issue of racism within the base of the Republican Party. The same argument has been applied to almost every recent presidential election: President Ronald…

Only one person fired a weapon that day:

I am going to post a few quotes from a recent article in The Nation about private citizens being incapable of pulling off a Dirty Harry move in an active shooter situation. But I suggest that you just read the entire article:  Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National…