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Terms of Agreement: How the Democrats can Come Together

If Democrats, progressive, centrist, moderate or whatever simply keep repeating their agreement on the key points above, they’ll drown out the Trump noise and win. With what? A big tent party.

Mariners sure throw a Swell Party. Can they hit a Baseball?

"We as a franchise have been doubted for 50 years," Alvin Davis said, looking into the home dugout. "Prove them wrong."

Reporting or Propaganda? Why Listening to China Matters

Was China trying to influence us by offering a trip? Of course. Nothing wrong with that; the U.S. Department of State hosts foreign journalists. Lots of governments do it. Each wants to tell its side of the story.

Trump Outrage Watch: An Attorney General, A Pointless War, A Co-opted Post Office

So, Todd Blanche, who serves as Trump’s lawyer, not the American people's lawyer, is now the confirmed...

How the Republican Party found its way to Trump

It really begins with the New Deal and the failure of the Hoover Republicans to roll it back, in fact their inability to even nominate presidential candidates who advocated for repealing it. 

Thought Experiment: Between two Islands

Both islands are ordinary places with ordinary populations, which means both produce cruelty and stupidity in roughly the volumes you would expect from any few hundred thousand human beings. But there’s always material.