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Forget Russia! Let’s Investigate Obama!

March 7, 2017 larryshockey Politics

In what has become the height of absurdity, the Republican Party has decided there is no need to appoint a special prosecutor or to conduct further investigation of the Russian hacking of the United States’ election in 2016, because there

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Bernie’s Response to the Tangerine Tyrant’s Speech to Congress

March 1, 2017 larryshockey Politics

View Bernie’s Response here. https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders/videos/vb.9124187907/10155681411947908/?type=2&theater

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Substance? NOT

March 1, 2017 larryshockey Politics

Maybe this is just the way it’s going to be for the next four years. Presidential soundbites and aides scurrying around trying to make coherent sense of them. Or to create policy. The Tangerine Tyrant has actually gotten good at

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In With the Old . . .

February 26, 2017 larryshockey Politics

While it wasn’t exactly a clash of titans, it was a clash of ideologies. Tom Perez, who was largely backed by the political establishment including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Keith Ellison (the first Muslim member of Congress) who

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Big Money & Politics. It’s A Lot Like the Weather.

February 25, 2017 larryshockey Politics

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” — Mark Twain (or Charles Dudley Warner. We’re not quite sure.) It turns out the same thing is true when it comes to big money and politics. Just look at

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The Freedom to Pee With Your Peers

February 23, 2017 larryshockey Politics, Sex

Yesterday the Tangerine Tyrant rescinded an executive order issued by President Barack Obama allowing transgendered youth to use the school bathroom for the gender with which they identified saying that in his opinion such decisions should be left to the

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Who Will Lead the DNC? It REALLY Matters!

February 23, 2017 larryshockey Politics

While many people dismiss it as a “Who cares?” moment, the next big moment for the Democratic Party is this weekend’s election of the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. At the center of the struggle between 8 candidates

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The American Political System and “The Ratchet Effect.”

February 20, 2017 larryshockey Politics

“Well, we’re giving a little more to X [the Republican], naturally, ’cause he’s got a better chance of winning. But we’ve given a lot to Y [the Democrat], too. In fact, I think we may be his biggest single bloc

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Liberals Keeping Their Heads Above Water

February 19, 2017 larryshockey Politics

This has been a really sucky year–like I have to tell you. If you ticked any box in the general election, other than Republican, (and maybe a few who ticked the Republican box but for other candidates in the primary)

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Beware Fake News (and presidential press conferences)!

February 18, 2017 larryshockey Media, Politics

On February 16, 2017, the president held his first ever solo news, I mean press, conference. I just can’t bring myself to call it news. In a rambling diatribe taking aim primarily at the media and blaming everyone but himself for his

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