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Monthly Archives: May 2017

What the family billions bought Betsy DeVos

UncategorizedBy John YoungMay 30, 20171 Comment

Betsy DeVos took the Jared Kushner route to a prominent place in America’s life. She married into it. She did it by betrothing billionaire ($5.5 billion net worth) Dick DeVos, whose father founded Amway. Dick got his turn as CEO. It’s the American way. So is buying influence with lawmakers. Over the years, the DeVos…

‘Deep Throats’ lined up for a city block

UncategorizedBy John YoungMay 22, 2017Leave a comment

Newly elevated, helium-inflated, a president for a bare blink of an eye, Donald Trump chose as one of his first presidential acts a declaration of war on the press. So, how’s that going? Trump called reporters “the enemies of the people.” Henchman Steve Bannon called the media “the opposition party.” Interesting claim from one who…

Two impeachable obstructions at play here

UncategorizedBy John YoungMay 15, 2017Leave a comment

As we recall now, it was James McCord, our nation’s 37th president, who in 1974 famously said, “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” No? Oh, right; James McCord wasn’t president. He was just the first name of note – a campaign committee schlemiel arrested…

Pop a cold one for one cold-hearted vote

UncategorizedBy John YoungMay 8, 2017Leave a comment

Look at the smiles on those faces. Look at the preening. You’d have thought President Trump and the beaming Republican cohorts standing behind him – Stephen Colbert called it “the strategic white persons reserve” – had just cured cancer. Or accepted ISIS’s surrender. Or returned man to the moon. Or brokered Middle East peace. No.…

Here come the clowns with ‘tax reform’ balloons

UncategorizedBy John YoungMay 1, 2017Leave a comment

“The clownish veneer of Trumpism conceals its true danger,” writes David Remnick in The New Yorker. “Trump’s way of lying is not a joke; it is a strategy, a way of clouding our capacity to think, to live in a realm of truth.” What’s it this week? We are asked to “reform” our tax system,…

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