Author: michael o. allen
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He turned a long ‘you are wrong’ gaze on . . .
A snippet of Ulysses by James Joyce, Episode 16 – Eumaeus Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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How a First Putin-Trump Summit Might Go
As the character of our next POTUS—Donald Trump—blooms right before our very eyes, it occurs to me it is not too soon to start imagining how future events might play out. Take that first Trump summit with Russia President Vladimir Putin. A lot is going to be riding on that one. Trump and Putin had…
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An Unbeatable Ticket
I should have known it was always going end like this: A Donald Trump/Megyn Kelly 2016 GOP ticket for president. Trump takes a backseat to no one. Not even to that evil political mastermind Frank Underwood. I know now why he can’t seem to let go of Megyn Kelly. Why he always brings her up…
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Our Present and Future Demagogues
We must also, as a society, fix the underlying economic and social conditions that make Trump-like supporters in the first place and then vote the way they do. Donald Trump is only the latest demagogic figure to come along and exploit much of the ignorance and insecurities that some of these people feel in their…
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The Center Cannot Hold
Prediction: Republicans are not going to crack up at their convention in Cleveland. There’s enough time between now and the July 18–21, 2016 Republican National Convention for party leaders to realize that Donald Trump is their dream candidate. The singular achievement of the Trump campaign is that he distilled decades of Republican agitprop–White Supremacy–into a…
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End of an Era, Indeed!
The New York Times published the note below at the end of a strange story about the reburial of Richard III. I revered to Times journalists as a young journalist. Unlike many in my generation who came into journalism because of Woodward and Bernstein, Harrison Salisbury was my initial inspiration. Then, John F. Burns became…
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President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address-January 28, 2014
The 2014 State of the Union Address (Enhanced Version) Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades. An entrepreneur flipped…
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A Plug for Unions
The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…
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Sanders’ October 2010 Filibuster Against Corporate Greed
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhOAzqfMoms[/youtube]So many people are talking about Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA nomination in the U.S. Senate that I thought I would remind people of Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders made a much loved speech on the senate floor that was turned into a book. It was in Oct. 2010 and the U.S. Senate…