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Back on May 13th I shared with you 2 parts of what turns out now to be a Trilogy (Sharknado XV: The Jumping!) of documentaries by the Dutch Network Zembla. Well, I was wrong about one thing Zembla is not a network, it is a show- like 60 Minutes. The network is VARA. This third …

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Let’s get it straight about who “Dreamers” are. They’re people who were born outside the U.S. who were brought here while they were minors in violation of U.S. immigration laws. Most of them know no other country since they were too young to remember; some go to school, some serve in the military, some work, …

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Oh, you think what I’m talking about is last night’s CNN debate. Well, I’ll get to that. Last Thursday Sanders spoke at Westminster College, Missouri, a venue made famous by being the site of Winston Churchill’s Sinews of Peace speech. A lot of people think that after World War II Churchill went on to be …

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I was under the impression that this thoroughly self evident concept had sort have become accepted as orthodox conventional Economic Theory back in 1776 when Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations. In that book he spends a good deal of time discussing how externalities, tax preferences, lobbying, and monopolies thwart the ability of the “Invisible …

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You see, I just want to load my pickup with the AK-47 in the gun rack and the Stars and Bars decals, bumper stickers, mud flaps, truck nuts, and flags on the back with 16 cases of ‘murika’ labeled Bud and go to the game so I can watch 44 mostly Black people bang their …

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Or Bust. Ding Dong? I would be remiss not to recognize John McCain’s public stand against Graham-Cassidy (Johnson-Heller, let’s not forget those assholes) makes it immeasurably difficult to achieve 50 Senate votes (and a tie-breaking decider from Mike Pence) given Rand Paul’s (give it up for the Freedom Caucus) earlier principled stand, Susan Collin’s almost …

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I’m going to have to ask you to put on your Googly Eyes for this one. So Tiger Beat on the Potomac posits that from a Republican point of view it is Obamacare that is the Zombie that eats your brains and you can not kill, even with fire. (T)he fact that the bill remains …

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There’s a reason I don’t go to Netroots Nation any more and it’s not because I’m ashamed of anything I’ve done or said in a little over 12 years of public writing (as a matter of fact I’m mostly pretty proud of all of it except the stuff that was uninspired which while not bad …

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Manafort indicted? A no brainer. Will he turn on Trump? Hey, even Goodfellas squeal. (W)as he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning. On the other hand Goodfellas normally give you a cement overcoat, not a case of polonium poisoning delivered by a Kingsman brolly. Manafort offered to give Russian …

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You’re a pistol, you’re really funny. You’re really funny. What do you mean I’m funny? It’s funny, you know. It’s a good story, it’s funny, you’re a funny guy. What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What? It’s just, you know. You’re just funny, it’s… funny, you know the way you tell …

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I rarely call out Stephen (actually, it’s not that rare) but on this occasion he is totally, 100% wrong! This is a great commercial! C’mon, a Top Gun homage? That takes some cran (that’s French, normally paired with elan and meaning “Guts” or “Nerve” and “Dash” respectively though it formally translates as “notch” which leads …

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Actually I liked it a good deal, it’s the first entry in the DCEU that’s not unrelentingly bleak. On the other hand let me explain just what it is that movie producers and executive producers do- they’re in charge of organizing the financing, and hiring and firing the personnel. Yes they can have creative input …

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