by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 5, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless about the World? Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled “Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 4, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Trump’s nonstop lies may be a far darker problem than many realize “26 hours, 29 Trumpian False or Misleading Claims.” That was the headline on a piece last week from the Washington Post, whose reporters continued the herculean task of debunking wave...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 4, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
A psychological analysis of Trump supporters has uncovered 5 key traits about them The lightning-fast ascent and political invincibility of Donald Trump has left many experts baffled and wondering, “How did we get here?” Any accurate and sufficient answer...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 1, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
I think it’s ironic that my key memory of Ed Butokwsky as a kid, one of the key players, the “Trump Supporter”, in this story, was from when he was a young teen playing little league baseball. He was in left field and moved unsteadily under a high...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 31, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Trump’s Russian Laundromat Over the years, Trump and his sons would try and failfive times to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow. But for Trump, what mattered most were the lucrative connections he had begun to make with the Kremlin-and with the wealthy Russians...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 31, 2017 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics Is Wrong. Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy – Evonomics Capitalism By Joseph Stiglitz The rules of the game can be changed to reverse inequality In the middle of the twentieth century, it came to be believed...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 31, 2017 | • Politics, The Republicans
10 Facts that Prove It’s not a Matter of Opinion, Republicans are Simply Wrong | Forward Progressives Once upon a time, my debates with my conservative counterparts were, mostly, about ideological differences. Sure, there were some factual clashes during the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 30, 2017 | • Politics, Black Lives Matter, Crime, Donald Trump
Police push back against Trump’s law-and-order speech President Donald Trump’s statement encouraging police officers to be “rough” with people they arrest has drawn criticism in law enforcement circles for sending the wrong message at a time of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 30, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
The losing is just beginning to start for Trump People close to Secretary of Defense James Mattis say he is “appalled” by the president’s decision to make a shift on transgender policy via Twitter. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is on the verge of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 29, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Long Island police department responds to Trump: We don’t tolerate roughing up prisoners The Suffolk County Police Department said they do not tolerate the “roughing up of prisoners” in response to President Trump’s address to police on Long...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 29, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Harvard Psychiatrist: How Trump’s Speech Was Toxic For Boy Scouts Beyond ‘Rhetoric’ 12 Points of the Boy Scout Law The head of the Boy Scouts of America publicly apologized Thursday for the “political rhetoric” in President Trump’s...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 28, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Trump, “Mooch,” and the Rise of the New York Douchebag TASOS KATOPODIS / Contributor The president and his foul-mouthed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, are members of a very particular species. Normally, a president under siege would not hire...
