It seems I owe the Trump administration in general, and Jeff Sessions in particular, an apology. You see, I had assumed that what Trump & Co. genuinely worshipped was Money—or, if you prefer Biblical language, Mammon. As in “you may serve God or Mammon, but not both.” And given the Trump kleptocracy… But now I…

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Children torn from the arms of their parents and encaged, along with other young castaways, under the pretense of following the law. Law? Whose law? This president’s law? This Attorney General’s law? This Secretary of Homeland Security’s law? And presuming that it is the law, what law has been broken? Seeking asylum by attempting illegal…

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1. Last week, we introduced you to “The ART,” the Albuquerque Rapid Transit system. The story that follows is Part 2 of that A.R.T. tale, and we offer it not just because the story takes place in Albuquerque, the place where LR Net has its home office, but also because it is uniquely instructive. Specifically,…

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The perfect is the enemy of the good. ~ Old Italian aphorism             Democrats have a small chance to become the Senate majority party after the November 6 elections. The Senate balance is currently 51/49 (Republican/Democrat, including two Independents, who caucus Democratic). So, we badly need to win at least two GOP seats, without any…

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Interesting article over on Bill Palmer’s Palmer Report page. While Trump was in Singapore, giving away the store to Kim and otherwise making America look ridiculous, he also notoriously tweeted about his own wonderfulness for getting a “Deal” with the North Koreans. Specifically, he wrote “The fact that I am having a meeting is a…

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When he’s not tearing children from their parents and putting them in cages in Texas, trying to figure out how to build a wall between the US and Mexico, spending inordinate amounts of time tweeting half truths about the media or swinging a golf club at one of his golf resorts, our President likes to…

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There have been an amazing number of fascinating stories on the web this week. That is not a good thing. With Donald Trump in the White House, there is always something insane to report. So, take a moment, and check out some of the following: As we all know now, Trump dissed Justin Trudeau, but…

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President Trump has a new “zero tolerance policy” for migrants crossing the border for shelter in the United States. Siting quotations from the bible, “Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech to police officers in Fort Wayne, Ind., cited Romans 13, imploring his “church friends” to remember the Bible passage that directs the faithful to…

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So, I’m looking right now at an article on the Washington Post website, Breaking from GOP orthodoxy, Trump increasingly deciding winners and losers in the economy by Steven Mufson and David J. Lynch. In it, the two writers make the interesting point that Conservatism (at least as that complicated word is defined in the United…

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