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…rtance: High was pleased that Robert Lynch's work and my own were cited in a Nation article on the lack of humor of our Republican standard bearer https://www.thenation.com/article/have-you-ever-seen-donald-trump-laugh/ congratulations Robert John and Jeffrey, i will write you sh...

…t was a torch that burned bright with ironies. Ailes’s Fox News, with its $1.5 billion in annual profits, had dominated Republican politics for two decades. Now Bannon’s Breitbart News, with its mere $1.5 million in annual profits, was claiming that role. For thirty years, Ailes—...

…; Japan Macro Watch.pdf Importance: — High We can also discuss single stock and Topix banks index (TPNBNK) ideas The Republican sweep means higher USD and yields are a foregone conclusion. We see USDJPY reaching 120 next year and Japanese reflation, bullish for Japanese equiti...

…onsultation with their pollsters and who “flip-flop” in response to public opinion, as caricatured by the infamous 2004 Republican presidential campaign television ad showing John Kerry wind-surfing, and tacking from one direction to another. At first glance, this seems irrationa...

…hree men in a room” who ran New York state: Sheldon Silver, the Democratic speaker of the assembly and Dean Skelos, the Republican Senate majority leader. He won convictions of a startling array of local politicians, carrying on the work of the Moreland Commission, an ethics inq...

…the proximity, the mutual enthusiasm between Mr. Thiel and Mr. Trump seems to have cooled. After Mr. Thiel spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2016, there were unsourced media reports that said Mr. Trump wanted to put him on the Supreme Court. But now even photo ops ar...

…w. Noam On Iran, as usual, I’m a gloomy contrarian. I’m glad the treaty was signed, and it’s kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking hysterically as they try to kill it (as they may). And Israeli hypocrisy has gone well beyond being comical. But in fact the whole...

…UYAMA: We already are doing a lot. We’ve got organizations like the National Democratic Institute, or the International Republican Institute, that are all over Tunisia and Egypt and Libya, and other places, trying to help them organize political parties, trade unions, civil-socie...

… profits. But none of the Seinfeld principals, creators, or producers seem ever to have heard of him. Mike Murphy, the Republican media consultant who ran Jeb Bush’s PAC and became a leading anti-Trump movement figure, has the vaguest recollection of Bannon’s seeking PR services...

… Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle. Romney l...

…— and their vote. Then, during his confirmation hearings on January 31, Hagel — under hostile questioning from several Republican senators — backed away from earlier-held positions on Iran, including the role of sanctions. And, though he previously been a sharp critic of a milit...

…ng and improving the readiness of the US military, Trump will likely have the backing of this influential member of the Republican congressional leadership. Today’s Economic Backdrop— Similar to the 1960s The economic and financial implications of a large, multiyear defense-spend...

…ella Camp Hits Carried Interest in Tax Plan With Wall Street in Focus Posted February 25, 2014, 10:29 P.M. ET The top Republican tax writer in Congress will lean on the financial industry with his planned revamp of the U.S. code, changing the treatment of carried interest and i...

… the United States, except you really can. The irony here was that it was the Obama administration, with a recalcitrant Republican Congress, that had pushed the EO envelope. Now, in something of a zero-sum game, Trump’s EOs would undo Obama’s EOs. During the transition, Bannon a...

…ngton Times January 8, 2016 by Newt Gingrich >> >> Donald Trump is a genuine phenomenon. He may or may not become the Republican nominee for president. He may or may not win the presidency even if he becomes the nominee. Yet it is clear that he is a phenomenon and that any hist...