- Iron Knee at Political Irony brings us another bit of far right alt-news. Seems nationally known personalities are telling adherents that the rash of fatal storms are fake news exaggerated by liberal media.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives tells us why one Civil War tribute has been missing from the US Capitol Rotunda for a long, long time.
- Infidel753, who does lots of careful research, finds anthropological reasons for right wing fascination with violence.
- I don’t much care for many of the positions taken by libertarians. But Michael A. LaFerrara, at Principled Perspectives, gets it about right on DACA, describing the controversy as a moral debate, with Trump conservatives on the wrong side.
- One media narrative that has been taking hold is that the Trump movement is primarily fueled by economic insecurity. PZ Myers sifts through the evidence and performs cruel and accurate vivisection on the theory.
- Frances Langum reviews the most recent evidence that Russian election hacking was far worse than previously known, and notices something important about the Trump reaction.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post goes to the alphabet to find lots and lots of descriptions of Donald Trump.
- Jonathan Bernstein explains why things seem to be going sour for Speaker Paul Ryan. Seems he’s been laying the groundwork for his own disaster for years.
- Fox tosses out yet another alleged sexual predator. How many do they have? driftglass has the best headline.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from libertarian think tank The Cato Institute, as they take on the “assertive and fundamentally misleading case” by Nikki Haley against the Iran nuclear deal.
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