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Yellowstone versus Blue Bloods: Big Sky versus Big Apple

Kevin Costner is still having a moment (see Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden: The Heroes We Want vs the Leaders We Have). The fifth season of the hit series Yellowstone has arrived.  It has done so with extensive media coverage far beyond what one would expect from a TV series. For […]

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Witch Hunter Scorecard: A Christmas Necessity

Can you name all the witch hunts against the Wicked Witch of the West? It is not so easy. Keeping track of all the investigations, indictments, and trials against the Mar-a-Lago President is a challenge. I have watched TV announcers struggle to get through them all in a single session. Sometimes, the network just gives […]

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What Do Putin and Trump Have to Look Forward to?

What do alpha male Putin and alpha male wannabee Trump have to look forward to? The two losers are forever linked by the dual frontpage headlines above the fold on the print edition of the New York Times, November 10, 2022. Across the top, headline read “those who passed the litmus test to become approved […]

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Are Democrats Capable of Crafting a New National Narrative?

For roughly two decades, the Democratic Party was content to rest on its laurels. After all there was a demographic deluge coming that would guarantee the election of Democrats just as assuredly as the election of a Republican governor in Wisconsin would guarantee Republican victories forever in the state. It always won the popular vote […]

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What will White Racists Do if the Republican Party Becomes Diverse?

The Democratic Party is the party of diversity. Everyone knows that. Night after night, talking-heads reiterate the message they deliver podcast after podcast, op-ed piece after op-ed piece, article after article. The demographics of the American voting population is changing and white people, especially non-college educated white people are the losers. As a result they […]

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Demographic Deluge, Democratic Nightmare: The Emerging Democratic Majority

At this point in time, thanks to the demographic deluge, the Democrats should be coasting to victory. Or so was prophesied two decades ago. The Emerging Democratic Majority By John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data — demographic, geographic, economic, and political — to […]

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Can Trump Succeed Where Hitler, the Soviet Union, and Bin Laden Failed?

Adolph Hitler could not destroy America. The Soviet Union could not destroy America. Osama Bin-Laden could not destroy America. Donald Trump can but he needs help. On January 3, 2021, I posted a political action thriller blog. It was about the books and movies from the 1960s, where people were trying to take over the […]

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Putin’s Big Lie versus Trump’s Big Lie

We stand at Armageddon: so said Teddy Roosevelt over a century ago. Today Armageddon is back in the news. It is explicitly in news due to the comments of the current President of the United States hearkening back to the Cuban Missile Crisis. But there is another Armageddon pending the return of “Orange Jesus” to […]

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Russians Reject Putin’s Big Lie

    What will Putin do? I ask that question as someone with access to no secret sources, no classified government materials, and no friends in the know. I ask it as someone who reads articles and watches news and talk shows. We are witnessing a battle between the real world and the mind of […]

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