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The Impeachment Process is not going to change the mind of Most Americans

Posted on November 25, 2019 by a1skeptic

National Public Radio recently reported on an according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll that confirms what I think most of us already know: impeachment process is not going to change the mind of most Americans. Overall, 65% of poll … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy on display (again!) after White House Correspondent’s Dinner

Posted on May 2, 2018 by a1skeptic

Last Saturday night we had the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, which seemed to generate a little controversy because of the monologue provided by Michelle Wolf. I don’t like to judge things without seeing them, so I decided to take a … Continue reading →

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Courageous Trump fires Tillerson via Twitter

Posted on March 13, 2018 by a1skeptic

Our President, who claimed that he would have the courage to run into buildings unarmed to confront a school shooter, doesn’t even have the balls to fire his Secretary of State face-to-face. No, just as with the firing of James … Continue reading →

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Didn’t Republicans used to hate the Russkies?

Posted on March 2, 2018 by a1skeptic

Vladimir Putin went before the cameras yesterday in his annual State of the Nation speech, and essentially announced the revival of the Russian nuclear weapons program. He hinted strongly that no one would be able to ignore the Russian’s “strategic … Continue reading →

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Hope Hicks resigning from the Trump Administration is not a little thing

Posted on March 1, 2018 by a1skeptic

Hope Hicks leaving the Trump campaign is not a little thing. Hicks is one of the original Trump loyalists. She’s only 29. The Donald and Ivanka are the only people she’s really ever worked for.[1] I don’t believe she’s going … Continue reading →

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We have a President with the emotional maturity of a Five year old.

Posted on May 15, 2017 by a1skeptic

As most of you know already, last week Donald Trump fired James Comey, and his administration fabricated this lengthy alibi involving Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (technically Comey’s boss) and his negative assessment of how Comey handled the Hillary Clinton … Continue reading →

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What to make of Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey?

Posted on May 10, 2017 by a1skeptic

What to make of the firing of James Comey yesterday by Donald Trump? It  certainly had echoes of the Saturday Night Massacre under the Nixon Administration. The official explanation from Trump’s administration is that Comey mishandled the investigation into Hillary … Continue reading →

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Trump’s first 100 Days

Posted on May 1, 2017 by a1skeptic

One of the very few things I agree with Donald Trump on is the notion that the “first 100 days” standard is essentially a meaningless standard. As National Public Radio pointed out in a recent story, the first 100 day … Continue reading →

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The Difference between Fake News on the Left and Fake News on the Right

Posted on February 23, 2017 by a1skeptic

A lot has been made of the term “fake news.” There was a lot of it during the past Presidential election, and the Trump administration has taken to branding every story that it doesn’t like to be “fake news.” It … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Propaganda Lie by President Obergropenführer and his Minions

Posted on February 20, 2017 by a1skeptic

In this blog I’ve promised to expose propaganda as we come across it – although frankly, there is too much propaganda coming out of the Trump White House than one poor blogger can keep up with. For that would be … Continue reading →

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