Golfing call to action

The 2017 USGA Women’s Open golf tournament has been scheduled at a golf course owned by the President-elect of the United States. According to columnist Christine Brennan in USA Today The USGA has made a visible effort over the past few years to try to start digging out from decades of discrimination against women and …

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Immigration hardliner says Trump team preparing plans for wall, mulling Muslim registry

Reuters: An architect of anti-immigration efforts who says he is advising President-elect Donald Trump said the new administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who helped write tough immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, said in an interview that …

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Who, him? Nah, he’s a good man.

If you’re looking for human decency and simple repugnance at the white supremacist that Trump has appointed to his staff as Chief Strategist, don’t bother checking Republicans in Congress. Former House Speaker and Trump advisor Newt Gingrich praised Bannon as a “great strategist” and said the mainstream media was trying to undermine the President-elect’s success. …

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Conservative columnist tells all!

Okay, that’s not quite accurate. The WaPo’s Jennifer Rubin argued against Trump throughout the primaries and the general election and is just as appalled at his victory as any Democrat is. No presidential candidate has ever behaved and spoken the way Trump did. The rest of the country was entitled to assume his vulgarity, lies, …

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Found on Twitter

I endorse this sentiment one hundred percent. There was no conciliatory behavior by the Republicans and their supporters when President Obama won twice. Instead there was obstruction from the House and Senate from the very day he was inaugurated. There were millions of sneering remarks about the new President and his legitimacy, many of which …

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Can Trump do all that immediately?

He made a bunch of promises to reverse the Obama Administration’s actions and things that happened during those eight years. How many of them can he fulfill? David Lauter of the Los Angeles Times answers that question: He can’t reverse Roe v. Wade immediately. It would take a court case getting up to the Supreme …

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Can this really be true?

Can 50 million of my fellow Americans be so enraged at their economic situation, at ethnic minorities, and at their elected representatives (most of whom they re-elected tonight) that they voted for the least qualified and least decent candidate in our 230-year history? The analysis of these results is going to be fascinating. I can …

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I voted!

The State of Hawai’i doesn’t give out nifty “I voted” stickers, just the torn-off stub from the ballot. Economy! We had 20 (twenty!) City Charter Amendments and 2 State Constitutional Amendments to vote on in addition to the Federal offices. Annoyingly for those who’d prefer competition in politics, my State House District race was over …

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