Dick Polman

The Trump Regime Wants to Believe the Earth is Flat

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The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we're already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency...
Fealty to Trump or the Constitution?

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Now that the inevitable moment of truth has finally arrived - with Donald Trump in banana republic mode, concocting a phony national emergency, flouting the will of Congress and trampling its constitutional spending power - we will soon learn whether..
Chris Christie is Desperate for Any Piece of the Action

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As I soldiered through Chris Christie’s spin-memoir “Let Me Finish,” I found myself flashing back to September 2011, when he was being widely touted as the GOP’s “Next Big Thing...
Five Takeaways from the Farcical Trump Shutdown

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It's morning in America. Food inspectors will get paid again to stop the spread of disease. Hopefully, this detestable episode - assuming it's not repeated - will be viewed as just another Trumpian debacle...
Border ‘Crisis’ Distracts Us From the True National Emergency

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162.2335175415888CCI::get_excerpt( $string = '\n\t\t\t\t<div><img src="https://image.cagle.com/220515/745/220515.png" style="width: 100%" /></div>Are we capable of connecting two dots? The fake border crisis distracts us from the true national emergency: A suspected Russian asset sits in the White House.\n\nWe don\'t know whether Donald Trump ginned up the shutdown to draw our attention away from the increasingly hair-raising evidence that he is indeed a clear and present danger to our national security. But suffice it to say that, without the shutdown, the pu'..., $max_words = 50, $max_length = 250 ).../class-cci.php:598
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Are we capable of connecting two dots? We don't know whether Donald Trump ginned up the shutdown to draw our attention away from the increasingly hair-raising evidence that he is indeed a clear and present danger to our national security...
If President Hillary Clinton Had Stormed Out of a Meeting…

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True news: Donald Trump storms out of a White House meeting after he doesn't get what he wants (billions of dollars for a fake crisis), and tells off congressional Democratic leaders by tweeting, "bye bye...
A Dirty Dozen Trump Trivia Quiz

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Did my ears deceive me? In so many words, yes...
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We're nearing the midpoint of Donald Trump's first-term tenure - assuming he makes it to the finish line - yet we in the media still haven't decided whether it's wise or wasteful to award air time to Kellyanne Conway...
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There's an old saying, attributed to nobody in particular, that Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity...

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