- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil observes Howard Schultz toying with a presidential run and is … um … unimpressed.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds one little item that Democratic candidates so far have that Howard Schultz does not.
- As Schultz attacks a proposed return to progressive taxation, Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger illustrates how we are told trickle-down works and what actually happens.
- So intelligence chiefs pretty much demonstrate Trump is dangerously wrong in many ways on national security. Vixen Strangely watches as our President draws the obvious conclusion. They are all either stupid or misquoted. Trump rejects intelligence is entendre squared.
- Jonathan Bernstein looks forward to my President’s State of the Union speech as a probable wasted opportunity.
- At The Moderate Voice, Eleanor Paynter takes a lesson from Europe’s refugee crisis on why the Trump wall can’t work.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz diagnoses the toxic tribalism of the American right as a symptom of simple emotional laziness. It is easiest to hate.
- Anti-immigrant bigotry affects US national security in many ways. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit notes the unintentional lesson for those in war-torn countries who would help US troops stay alive: We will not protect you and you and your families will pay with your lives.
- nojo explains Roger Stone and the criminal lies by simply quoting email contents as revealed in the indictment. nojo is that rare writer who is capable of eloquence with no words of his own.
- The Onion is there as Foxconn’s first assembly line robot is activated and immediately attempts suicide. Aunt Tildy and I will again discuss the meaning of satire.
- driftglass explains why he did not crush a MAGA conservative with telling information about Peggy Noonan.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes is not interested in Sojourner Truth as an historical figure as much as in her development as a human being.
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