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Update 07/23/2025
This is what bothers me about Congress: Trump has benefited from an unprecedented expansion of executive power in recent months. With the blessing of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the president has moved to unilaterally freeze spending, shutter government agencies, and levy massive tariffs — all authorities that are technically under the purview Continue reading
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Update 07/20/2025
MSNBC: Trump is carrying out a power grab the likes of which the U.S. has never seen Once the president realized how hard it was to legislate, he turned away from it and has never really come back. He ignores judges, too, except when they agree with him. …………………………………….. If I Understand This: The federal Continue reading
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Update 07/13/2025
From the Past: The U.S. Secret Service was originally created on July 5, 1865, during the Civil War, to fight counterfeiting, which was a huge problem. By the end of the war, between 1/3 and 1/2 of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. Provided by FactRetriever.com ………………………………. News: US Navy’s Blue Angels Selects Continue reading
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Update 07/06/2025
What Huffpost thinks of the new bill: “It makes the rich get richer, kicks down the poorest, helps ICE detain Americans, kills clean energy jobs and throws grandma out of her nursing home.” — I’ll go with that. …………………………. Baseball expression: “A walk is as good as a hit.” Not to me. Why? ………………………………….. Useless Continue reading
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Update 06/29/2025
Re Trump’s attack: There is that thing about the Constitution’s unambiguous statement that only Congress can declare war, the absence of a law akin to the Iraq War-era Authorization for Use of Military Force (even Hillary voted for that one), and — critically — a lack of an imminent threat to the United States. …………………………… Continue reading
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