March, 2017 archive
A Jury of Their Fears 0
Elie Mystal applauds the Supreme Court’s decision to look behind closed doors.
Seeing Strategy That Isn’t There 0
Will Bunch applies Trump’s razor to this weekend’s Trumpstorm alleging that President Obama tapped the Trump phones.
Multiplication of Mendacity 0
Paul Krugman notes that the era of spin is over, replaced by the era of outright lies. A snippet:
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The moral vacuity of Republicans in Congress, and the unlikelihood that they’ll act as any check on the president, becomes clearer with each passing day. Even the real possibility that we’re facing subversion by agents of a foreign power, and that top officials are part of the story, doesn’t seem to faze them as long as they can get tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts for the poor.
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President Precedent 0
Emile Simpson channels Herman’s Hermits to point out that Donald Trump is not unpresidented.
QOTD 0
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld:
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Such as, for example, alternative facts.
Molten Pot 2
The Philadelphia Daily News’s Sandy Shea tries to make sense of recent events. A snippet:
What worries me is that the reappearance of these incidents says something ugly about all of us – and not only those who are filled with hate.
We’ve told ourselves for generations that we are a tolerant nation, that we welcome outsiders, that we are a melting pot of cultures and nationalities. I’ve believed it. But now I have to wonder: Was that tolerance only skin deep? Was collective hatred so close to the surface that all it took was implied (and explicit) permission from someone who encourages suspicion and fear?
The Return of McCarthyism 0
Jason330 has the scoop.
