Deep Dives
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The Deep State Of Denial About…
The real story of Trump's oil-soaked, Kushner-catalyzed presidency is its “business-as-usual” continuity with the Empire of Oil and its fawning…
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We Are Not Alone
Space. They say it’s the final frontier. And they’ve probably been saying it for a long, long time. According to…
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Mother Nature’s Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Is the hydrocarbon economy too big to fail? If the woefully inadequate outcome of the Paris climate conference is any indication,…
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PODCAST: The Impeachment, The Iowa Caucus, & the State of the (Dis)Union w/ JP Sottile
February 10, 2020: JP forayed into the always fascinating world of Parallax Views w/J.G. Michael to discuss the #Impeachment anti-climax, the #IowaCaucusDisaster, the #DemocraticParty’s Civil War between Progressives & Centrists, Trump’s #SOTU2020, #PelosiTheRipper, & more. Check out the podcast here. Follow the great J.G. Michael here. And be sure to peruse other episodes of Parallax…
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Post-Prayer Breakfast Depression
Now that we’ve had time to digest the bitter theological hash Trump served-up at the National Prayer Breakfast, it is important to note that he is NOT an aberration. Rather, he is the logical conclusion of the rise of American Evangelical Christianity. That’s why they have embraced him like a vice grip, looking past his…
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SOTU: The Reagan Reboot Strikes Again
As I predicted yesterday, Trump launched the second part of his Reagan Reboot last night with a mendacious sales-pitch for reelection rooted in his trumped-up version of Morning In America. With the Fed’s low rates and its willingness to artificially inflate the market through the Repo Loan ATM machine … and with investors unwilling to…
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The Irony Of Iowa’s Caucus Crack-Up
Whether the Iowa Caucus mess is due to shadowy malfeasance or par-for-the-course incompetence, it kinda corners the Dems into a Bernie or bust situation. They cannot win without his supporters. Period, full-stop. They have to have his enthusiasm, his youth vote and his GOTV infrastructure, which has been active for nearly five years. But if…
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The Impeachment Blunder
It’s been my contention that Impeachment is one of the great political blunders of my lifetime … worse than Susan Estrich putting Dukakis in a tank, almost worse than Gore ghosting then-sitting President Clinton and perhaps even worse than Hillary skipping Wisconsin. I have privately debated the wisdom of Impeachment with Democrats, and publicly criticized…