- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass believes he has found the key to what causes a violent society.
- David Greenberg at MadMikesAmerica explains why insults are okay, but it is against the law to threaten Donald Trump. We should all agree to that exception to free speech.
- President Trump seems to have trouble deciding to conform to the Constitution by divesting himself of business interests. Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post selflessly offers to help out our Commander in Chief with a list of brands and a suggestion of a boycott.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds something familiar about President Trump’s flailing rage about news stories concerning illegal collusion with Russia by his campaign. Now that he hasn’t found the sources for those stories, he concludes that President Obama must have wiretapped him. How else would the press find out? tengrain remembers a similar character in classic cinema.
- Frances Langum traces the Trump belief that new breaking evidence of his Russia collusion cover-up must have come from an Obama wiretap. She discovers the apparent source of his new conspiracy theory.
- Tommy Christopher notes two more under-reported coincidental talking points shared by President Trump and Putin spokespeople.
- Green Eagle reviews mainstream coverage of President Trump and finds a disturbing trend, as the press dances around a clear declaration of documented truth.
- driftglass is in print, so we can only guess whether he joins us in banging fists to forehead as Hugh Hewitt insists that Benghazi was largely ignored by MSM.
- The Big Empty has a few tips on getting along with Trump supporters.
- As President Trump expresses increasing fury toward Democrats because they “have still not approved my full Cabinet,” Jonathan Bernstein compares such outbursts with the actual record and speculates that Mr. Trump is asking to be ignored.
- A former CIA analyst warns that the Trump affinity to alternative facts is expanding to the sort of alternative intelligence that led to the Iraq war.
- As President Trump establishes VOICE, “Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement”, to track and publicize any crime committed by immigrants, the reasoning may seem obvious. It apparently is not obvious to everyone. Infidel753 carefully explains why the anti-immigrant motivation should be clear.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger illustrates the first immigrant that the new administration is trying to deport.
- At The Moderate Voice briefly explains how President Trump defines responsibility.
- John Pavlovitz is a long time pastor who wants to apologize for the hate filled side of the public face of Christianity.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives says that Martin Luther King was right on racial justice, but wrong on economic justice. He puts economic justice in quotes: “economic justice”.
- The Journal of Improbable Research discovers an academic dissertation centered on the proposition that the “current debate over nonconceptual content is of fundamental importance for both phenomenology and the theory of knowledge.” The author explains how to think.