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  • Donald Trump isn’t funny anymore, and we all have to stop him

    02/29/2016 6:09:35 AM PST · by Citizen Zed · 114 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 2-29-2016 | Michael R. Strain
    The president is our head of state — our chief public representative, a living symbol of the nation. However he would actually govern, Trump is simply unfit to hold this office. He called for a Muslim registry. He wants to send Syrian refugees back to Syria. He has publicly employed misogyny and has publicly enumerated lists of women with whom he would like to have sex. He has mocked the disabled. He admires Vladimir Putin. He might have ties to organized crime. From the start, his campaign has appealed to the darker angels of our nature, generating support by attacking...
  • Supporting a Tax Because It's a Spending Cut

    10/26/2015 10:11:36 AM PDT · by Citizen Zed · 4 replies
    National Review Online ^ | 10-25-2015 | MICHAEL R. STRAIN
    Economists Lawrence H. Summers, Treasury secretary under President Clinton and top economics adviser under President Obama, and N. Gregory Mankiw, CEA chair under President George W. Bush, team up this morning in an op-ed supporting Obamacare’s Cadillac tax... They are right to do so, as the Cadillac tax actually cuts government spending (properly understood).