Trump Wins! How To Cope With Your Grief
Note: this post was written initially on 22 October and added to as new helpful hints came to me. And a reminder that we predicted a Trump victory on 1…
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There Is No Such Thing As The GOP — Guest Post by The Blonde Bombshell
There is no such thing as the GOP, in the sense of an opposite party to Democrats. And there hasn't been since Ronald Reagan left office. Reagan himself never was…
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On The Cubs’ & Trump’s Victories, Nate Silver’s Predictions & All That
https://twitter.com/ThaRightStuff/status/794045050753794048 Some crow is presumably being eaten by Nate Silver and the folks at FiveThirtyEight.com this fine morning. I recommend they bake it into a pie (which I learnt from…
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No Matter Who Wins, We’re Doomed — WMBriggs Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7T0XUOVS2g Download MP3. Note: This was written and recorded last Wednesday, before DickiLeaks et alia, but due to other events I had to delay posting it until today. The return…
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Debate Open Thread: Trump Wins On Points In Two-Against-One Bout
Ladies and gentlemen...the main event! In this corner, the challenger Donald "The Donald" Trump, six foot two, two hundred and twenty-two pounds, a reach of seventy-three inches in the Red…
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Why Trump? — Guest Post by the Blonde Bombshell
As the election nears, some voters and pundits continue to be perplexed why Donald J. Trump is on the ballot. Forget that the country underwent a political process, where the…
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Stream: AP’s LGBT ‘Rights’ Survey: Stacked, Biased, Bogus
Today's post is at The Stream: AP's LGBT 'Rights' Survey: Stacked, Biased, Bogus. AP is reporting young Americans "overwhelmingly support LGBT rights", a proposition deduced from a GenForward survey "of…
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Britain Free. France, Texas Next? Brexit Open Thread
https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/746172629166391296 Last day of class. Your regular broadcast resumes tomorrow. Wales and England, except in the metropolitan areas (surprise), said Leave and Scotland and Northern Ireland said Remain. With the…