what to do about polling non-responders? Or, folks who just don’t tell pollsters the truth, for fear of disapproval?
Category Archives: Past
Links from Daily Kos and The Hill
Can’t talk treason until “collusion” is proven: there would have to be two-way communication planning information operation, between Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. We don’t have that, YET! Many think that James Mattis is the one person who can protect our national security from the President, better than any other single member of the administration!
Link from Vox
Becomes clearer every day: greatest national security threat to U.S. lives in White House
Link from Vox
If you want a villain to blame for modern political polarization, try Big Data!
Link from Politico
This could be Friday’s big event … Merkel v. Trump!
Link from AlterNet
If you haven’t heard, yet, the alt-right has a counter movement: “antifa” (anti-fascist), basically anarchists, maybe prone to violence, certainly anti-democratic, much like their enemies, the alt-right
Link from Politico
Trump’s new VOICE office will collect and publish data on crimes local law enforcement have deemed too trivial for detention, “declined detainers” as ICE calls them, when local authorities decline to detain suspects long enough for ICE to get their hands on them.
Link from Vox
McMasters has a very Clausewitzian view of strategy. It may still be a bit harsh; but, at least it has a firmer grounding in history than the world view of the totally unhinged Bannon!
Early Political Links, 2017
Defense of the “deep state” … the “shallow state” of Donald Trump is far worse! An underground railroad, Rapid Response Teams …
Early Links, 2017
Hard to imagine U.S. not participating in worldwide shift to EVs over next several years, but that seems to be exactly what Trump administration has in mind! American workers, as well as planet, will only be worse off as result … Michael Moore’s 10-point plan — I especially like the idea of “Rapid Response Teams”