HERO COMPLEX

Now Trump wants to fight the Freedom Caucus AND the Democrats to get health care done. Fat chance! http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tru...

BLAMING THE MESSENGER

What you do when the news is bad http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-nyt-tweet Donald Trump Lashes Out At The New York Times Yet Aga...

COVER UP

Why did Nunes cancel the House Intelligence session with Sally Yates? Here's an informed guess http://www.salon.com/2017/03/28/devin-nun...

CLOAK AND DAGGER

If you have followed the Nunes "wiretapping" disclosure closely, there has always been a question of Trump's confidence that e...

REVERTING TO NORM

On Friday, after his humiliating health care defeat, Trump offered an understated statement that he was "surprised" and "disa...

A TALE OF TWO PRESIDENTS

One won on health care, one lost. See if you can guess why   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/25/1647123/-Why-Obama-succeeded-on-health...

FAILURE

The health care bill gets pulled without a vote -- a tremendous failure by Trump and the Republicans to fulfill a major commitment they camp...

DELUSIONAL

Trump does an interview with Time magazine that gives full rein to his arrogant, delusional relation to the truth. It's clear that becom...

INSIDE MAN

Devin Nunes, House Intelligence chair (and a member of the Trump transition team), who has been carrying water for Trump at every stage of t...

THE TURNING POINT

Now we are going to start to find out, little by little, about this Trump-Russia business http://www.salon.com/2017/03/21/yes-comeys-testimo...

A Personal Memo from a Woman Teaching Public Administration in Asia - ORA-ORN POOCHAROEN

Excerpt from:  THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AROUND THE WORLD The Minnowbrook Perspective(Published Jan 2011) I argue strongly that it...

"A CREDIBLE ALLEGATION OF WRONGDOING"

Ignore all those people who say "there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians." There is an inves...

THE GAME OF TELEPHONE

Here's how "fake news" really spreads. Trump cites a Fox commentator, "a very talented legal mind" -- and a 9/11 tru...

AMATEUR HOUR

Now we know why Trump was so pissy to Merkel http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-germany-nato-spending "Despite what you have ...

DISSED

Politicians in the U.S. have to deal with Trump and have to worry about being punished by Trump-supporting voters. But other world leaders d...

OUT OF BALANCE

Trump's budget -- like everything else he touches, messed up from the get-go https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/16/trum...

NO, NO, AND NO

Three people, three answers http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ag-jeff-sessions-sees-reason-trump-wiretap-claim/story?id=46146095  U.S. Attorney...

ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX

Rachel Maddow scores a scoop with (parts of) Trump's 2005 tax returns http://www.vox.com/2017/3/14/14930662/trump-tax-returns-rachel-mad...

"AMERICAN CARNAGE"

CBO report: it's not 15 million people losing insurance -- it's 24 million   http://www.vox.com/2017/3/13/14907100/cbo-report-ahca-o...

PROMISES, PROMISES

Trump's promises on health care http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-look Saying it's so don't make it so http://talkingpoints...

UNDERSTAFFED

Two months of transition and two months in office, and Trump has appointed ONE official in the Pentagon and ONE in the State Department http...

DON'T PEEK!

The Repubs don't want people to know what their health care bill will cost, or how many people it will (not) cover -- so they're dis...

RUSH JOB

The Repubs are frantically trying to rush through their health care bill (after calling the year or so it took to pass Obamacare much too ru...

MI6

The so-called Steele dossier on Russia's possible blackmail leverage over Trump has some pretty outlandish claims in it. But little by l...

SGX Finally Wises Up

How long have I been harping on this issue? SGX have seen their volume traded, market activity and its robustness being sharply curtailed fo...

NOPE

Seven years at work, and this is the big Obamacare Replacement the Repubs have been promising? Early reviews are in http://www.msnbc.com/rac...

WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE

On Jan 22, Trump praised James Comey, his own FBI Director -- now he calls him a liar Jan 22: http://www.inquisitr.com/3910645/donald-trump-...

TAPPED OUT

Trump makes a wild, irresponsible assertion, based on zero evidence, that Obama tapped his phones. The Trump Fire and Damage Control rushes ...

LOOK, OVER THERE!

So much for acting "presidential"! Trump, desperate to change the subject from growing evidence of collusion with Russia to hack t...

BAD JOKE

Trump thinks he has an oh-so clever comeback for Chuck Schumer . . . until Schumer replies  http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/3/...

UNDER OATH

Look, this is simple. We know that Trump's National Security Advisor met with the Russians. We know that Trump's Attorney General me...

JUST WORDS

The ever-dependable press decides that Trump's speech represents a new seriousness in the regime. Now he is being "presidential,...

MUSICAL CHAIRS

Trump hasn't submitted names for more than a thousand open government positions. Now he says, "I meant to do that" http://nyma...