Tag: Donald Trump
Beyond resistance: The story of 2016
Maybe someday we’ll look back and say this was the year a revolution began.
The 4 syndromes of passivity in the face of pending tyranny
Taking action – demonstrating, resisting, objecting, demanding, speaking truth, joining with others, making a ruckus, and never ceasing to fight Trump’s pending tyranny – will empower you.
Drowning the world in oil
Trump’s carbon-obsessed energy policy and the planetary nightmare to come.
Trump is taking on Wall Street, literally
The next administration will have plenty of billionaires – and no working class populists.
Senators call for Trump’s education secretary nominee to pay $5.3M in...
DeVos has neither responded to their letter, nor announced any plans to ensure payment of the delinquent fines.
Hamilton electors have a message for Donald Trump: ‘You’re fired’
“The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
From here to Dystopia
One or two bomb throwers can blow up the international community. Trump is appointing a whole cabinet of them.
Trump must sell his D.C. hotel, federal officials tell Congressional Democrats
Giving it to his children isn’t good enough.
Why in the world would Trump tap Perry to be energy...
Rick Perry has zero expertise or experience for the job he's being handed.
Where are all the adults?
The election of someone so unfit as Trump to be President not only opens up, but relives old traumas. No wonder why Trump arouses such intense feelings.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.