Not Winning in Afghanistan: Why?
Candidate Trump in his dynamic public rallies repeatedly criticized the former U.S. president for not winning anymore. Trump also mentioned, "If I'm president, we'll win so much, you'll get bored with winning."
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Sadly, No
Sometimes you say things in order to make them more likely to happen, but I hope Dems don't actually believe this. Yet everything keeps coming back to pushing a Congress that has so far been supine before the president and often hostile to dissenting constituents.
Seconds after quoting an anonymous source, Anthony Scaramucci admits the source was Donald Trump
Anthony Scaramucci has been on the job for less than 72 hours, and on Sunday he made his first appearance on the Sunday talk shows as White House communications director. It did not go well.
The Russian Trump Bear Statue Of Iron Mountain Michigan
Generations ago, when the wealth of the United States was measured in natural resources like beaver pelts and timber, people built giant statues to represent the times. They erected statues of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe that can still be seen along north woods roadsides from Oregon to Michigan.
Republicans are Right: Going to College Hurts
Going to college is a good thing, right? That's at least what I was told as a kid, and what led me to get a college degree. I was the first one in my family to do so.
The World’s Young Are Facing a $535 Trillion Bill for Climate
One of the world's most famous climate scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow's young citizens will face to keep the globe at a habitable temperature and contain global warming and climate change - a $535 trillion bill. And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to suck 1,000 billion metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the air by the year 2100.
Trump’s New Message Man Is A Harvard-Educated Former Wall Streeter With Humble Roots
Anthony Scaramucci, incoming White House communications director, takes a question from the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Friday, July 21, 2017. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption Anthony Scaramucci, incoming White House communications director, takes a question from the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Friday, July 21, 2017.
Weird Desires
The President isn't some abstract concept, a Sorkinian Archetype. His name is Donald Trump, and you don't want him anywhere near anything important.
How our Intel Agencies Screwed us by Letting Sessions, Trumpies get away with Russia Scheme
Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller at WaPo report from a US intelligence source that former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, told Moscow that he had discussed campaign-related matters with Jeff Sessions twice in the summer of 2016. This revelation directly contradicts Sessions' testimony before Congress.
Don’t expect Trump’s relationship with the media to get much better after staff shake-up
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Newly named White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Friday that he wants to "de-escalate" tensions between the Trump administration and the media, but he offered little evidence to suggest that relations will improve. Though he struck a softer tone than other White House spokespersons, Scaramucci would not make promises on points that matter to journalists.
Florida Man Shoots AT&T Trucks Outside Home
A retired Florida firefighter apparently shot the tires on multiple AT&T trucks because he was upset they were parked near his home, according to WSVN. Police said utility workers were working on lines near the home when 64-year-old Jorge Jove approached them on Wednesday morning.
Australia disappointed by U.S. failure to take in refugees as promised
Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton speaks to reporters in Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rod McGuirk Now that the U.S. government has reached its annual refugee resettlement cap as set by the Trump administration, hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers from Australia won't be able to enter the United States as promised during former President Barack Obama's administration.
Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern military science.
Not How Any Of This Works
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.
Revolt of the masses
This New Yorker profile of Trump supporters in western Colorado is yet another entry into the quasi-anthropological task of trying to figure out how an astonishingly ignorant and increasingly demented old man who is a raging narcissist etc. etc. etc.
Betsy DeVos’ Latest Speech Draws Protests, Even Before She Speaks
Hundreds of protestors hold signs and chant at a rally in front of the Colorado State Capitol Building, in Denver. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is scheduled to deliver a speech to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which backs school choice policies coast to coast.
Kobach: – We May Never Know’ Who Won 2016 Popular Vote (VIDEO) 32 minutes ago
The vice chair of the White House's bogus "election integrity" commission said Wednesday that "we may never know" whether millions of illegal votes cost President Donald Trump the popular vote in the 2016 election - despite the lack of any evidence to support Trump's frequent claim that millions of ballots were cast illegally. "Do you believe Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 to 5 million votes because of voter fraud?" MSNBC's Katy Tur asked Kobach in an interview after the commission's first meeting.
Trump’s Allies Are Taking Over the Media and Creating Their Own Reality
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Donald Trump and the Invisible Monster of Climate Change
When I describe this event to children today, it really does sound to them like a fairy tale. Once upon a time - a time before the world splintered into a million pieces and America became its current disunited states - this old woman was a young idealist who tried to persuade our mighty Congress that a monster was stalking the land.
The Invisible Monster of Climate Change
Editor's note: Tikkun's media ally TomDispatch.com has produced another valuable analysis, this time in the form of a dystopian forecast of what might be coming by 2050. Below is how its editor Tom Engelhardt introduces this scary yet sadly realistic vision.