Trump’s re-election delivered a shock to Democrats and liberals, but all is not lost. First, however, a couple of preliminary observations. The pollsters were right; the White House race was a 50-50 tie. It really was close; Trump got 50% to 51% in all the battleground states. It was soooo clo[...]
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November 6th, 2024 - 12:55 pm § in America, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Politics, Republicans
Silver linings in the 2024 elections
Can states ban lab-grown meat?
That’s a complicated legal question the courts will have to answer. The closest analogy I can think of is Wisconsin’s margarine ban in effect from 1895 to 1967 (see story here); as far as I know, it was never struck down by the courts. That ban was enacted to protect Wisconsin’s da[...]
July 6th, 2024 - 11:27 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans, Saudi Arabia
What would a second Trump presidency be like?
Academic futurist Daniel Drezner (photo, left; profile here), writing for Politico (here), has some predictions. First, brace for much higher inflation. “In a second Trump term, his combined policies of ‘priming the pump,’ looser money, higher tariffs and fewer workers is a surefir[...]
Florida governor forces residents to eat meat
GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation banning the sale of lab-grown meat in Florida. Lab-grown meat is “produced in steel tanks using cells from a living animal,” and is different from plant-based proteins, Huffington Post says (read article here). Sounds like cloning to me. DeSan[...]
A brief history of democracy
“Political liberalism was formulated in England by John Locke as the platform of the Glorious Revolution (1688), emphasizing among other things the primacy of individual freedom, government constrained by law and consent, and the rule of law in general. Economic Liberalism was added almost a c[...]
January 30th, 2017 - 12:05 am § in America, Donald Trump
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
It turns out we all should have taken Trump both seriously and literally. Monday, January 30, 2017 From the Washington Post Daily Newsletter Sign up here. BY ISHAAN THAROOR THE TAKEAWAY For more than a year, President Trump made it clear how he felt about refugees and other Muslim foreigners se[...]
June 14th, 2016 - 7:33 pm § in Misc.
MAKING IT SIMPLE
Hillary won DC. So by current count Hillary Clinton has won: 2214 pledged delegates (a majority), 15,796,181 votes (3,742,069 more than her closest competitor), 34 of 57 caucuses and primaries (a majority), and the support of 581 of 714 unpledged delegates (a majority). There are no more primaries [...]
April 7th, 2016 - 4:29 pm § in Misc.
How Bright Patricians Become Republicans
The left has made a huge mistake by assuming that liberal idea must be true because they come from bright people. Bright people can, and often do, have terrible ideas. The problem is not unique to the Republicans. The challenge of buying into climate denial, voodoo economics, creationism must be [...]
July 8th, 2015 - 9:42 am § in The Ave Scene
UPDATE: Seattle Housing Taskforce Proposes Dissing Single Family Home Neighborhoods
“Drop single-family zoning”, “Seattle’s zoning has roots in racial and class exclusion and remains among the largest obstacles to realizing the city’s goals for equity and affordability.” Sarajane Siegfriedt, Facebook I can’t imagine anything more divisive. D[...]
Trump kills TPP, giving China its first big win