Political Calendar: Week of July 21, 2019
July 21, 2019
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Cartoon of The Week
July 21, 2019
Donald Trump spent much of his 2016 campaign disparaging America. His inaugural address presented a dystopian vision of ‘American carnage’. As David Brooks explains, Donald Trump Hates America. Irony is dead in America.
We are in 2019. Why is it not like 2001 yet?
July 20, 2019
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In the movie 2001 A Space Odyessy, which came out a little over 15 months before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, several assumptions were made about a space-age Earth society that would exist in 2001. Among those assumptions were: Space Planes would take passengers to an International Space … Read more
50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
July 20, 2019
Growing up in the the 1960s, I followed the NASA space program like I followed my favorite baseball teams. I knew the names of the astronauts as well as the baseball players on my Topps trading cards. I had a collection of plastic models of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecrafts, and of the lunar … Read more
Dorman and Romero Spar with Farley at Tucson Mayoral Forum
July 19, 2019
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Steve Farley appeared to be the Democratic candidate to beat in last night’s Tucson Mayoral Forum, as opponents Regina Romero and Randi Dorman traded barbs with him over affordable housing plans, campaign funding and staff, endorsements, who was the union candidate and the RedforEd movement. The forum at Rincon High School filled nearly every seat … Read more
Unindicted coconspirator ‘Individual 1’ escapes justice – for now
July 19, 2019
When Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in November 2018 to lying to Congress, the documents filed with his plea deal didn’t explicitly name the person on whose behalf he had lied. It called him “Individual 1.” There was never any doubt that “Individual 1” was President Donald Trump. Michael Cohen: “Individual 1 is Donald J. Trump”: … Read more
House Democrats are getting the job done while ‘The Grim Reaper’ denies the People’s Agenda
July 19, 2019
In the chaos theory of governance of the Trump administration, so much craziness happens every day that it is easy to overlook important events in the din of noise. Which is really the whole point of chaos theory. Trump wants to overwhelm the senses with the vast volume of his craziness every day so that … Read more
After the CNN debate, time to thin the herd dramatically
July 19, 2019
I previously said that the Democratic candidates had until Labor Day to break out, and if it hadn’t happened for them by then, it ain’t gonna happen, time to get out. But the Democratic electorate is sorting out the two dozen or so candidates at a faster pace, and it may be possible to reduce … Read more
