THE DAILY BEAST: DOES TRUMP LIKE ANY PRESIDENT?
Usually, candidates say which former presidents they’d seek to emulate. But Donald Trump has no sense of history—while Hillary Clinton has too much of her own.
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Dark Times for the Blue Planet
Pleassse forgive the tYpos.It’s dArk here under the BlanKets and I can’t really see the key8oard.A week that began with the assassination of five police officers in...
Read MorePresident Obama's Nuclear Non-Apology, Apology.
Barack Obama never said the words “sorry” or “I apologize,” so technically it wasn’t an apology. As the first sitting American president to ever visit Hiroshima, Japan, the world was focused on every syllable Obama would say.“Seventy-one years ago” began the president, “on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed.” Of course, 75 years ago, on a bright, cloudless...
Read MoreMiddle Class? Fat Chance!
The bad news is the American middle class is shrinking. The worse news is the average American’s middle is growing. At the same time incomes are going down, waistlines are going up.The Pew Research Center crunched Census Bureau numbers and found in 203 out of 229 metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles, the percentage of households qualifying as “middle class” fell since the turn of the millennium. In places like Midland, Texas, it’s actually good...
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