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Mickey Kaus

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'The venerable liberal crusade for income equality is doomed. Time to try a different strategy.'

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@kausmickey
Mickey Kaus
4 months
My old @NonzeroPods podcasts with @robertwrighter are here: Archives of the Patreon Parrot Room podcasts [$] are here: Parrot now resting.
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
Apparently this fellow -- Dick Van Dyke -- just turned 95. Happy Birthday!
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
"Mayhem incited by Trump" (NYT) "The president incited the mob" (Liz Cheney). I've now listened to all 1 hr 11 min of Trump's Wed. Ellipse speech and I'll be damned if I can find any language inciting violence or mayhem. Maybe someone can point me to it. 1/
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
If the press covered all scandals with the vigor with which it's covering the Hunter Biden scandal, John Edwards would be president
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
CNN pivoting to Mueller. Must have been a good speech.
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
Why are they privately telling Biden campaign officials anything?
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John Bresnahan
3 years
Pennsylvania Democratic officials are privately telling Biden campaign officials that they believe final margin of victory for Biden in Pennsylvania will be 100K-200K votes when the counting is finally done
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
CNN seems to be taking it personally...
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
My God they are scared of him
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
If conditions at border facilities are overwhelmed & as bad as Hillary and others claim (others claim worse) that'd seem to create a powerful case for closing the border under Sec. 1182 (f) to stop a humanitarian emergency. No more asylum claims at border for 6 months.
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Hillary Clinton
5 years
I've been heartbroken and horrified to read the news of children at the border being detained in appalling conditions. No soap, no toothbrushes, no beds. Not enough food, babies being forced to take care of babies, everyone sick.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Remember: They don't oppose the Wall so fiercely because it won't work! They oppose it because it will.
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Schumer's achievement: --Got a debate on a Dreamer bill McConnell said he'd have anyway --Exposed lack of popular support for Dems' Dreamer obsession --Caved on the Wall, which is now part of baseline for new negotiations
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
That would make for a short Election Night
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Actual demand for DACA bill is underwhelming everywhere except among activists, media & CEO types, as Sen. Schumer discovered when he shut down the government over the issue.
@AnnCoulter
Ann Coulter
6 years
Hey, @RepMcCaul : Americans aren't demanding a DACA bill. They're demanding a WALL. Talk to someone other than your donors.
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
Anybody else uncomfortable with a bunch of generals suddenly deciding *they* should make America's foreign policy?
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Maggie Haberman
5 years
There was the much milder version (Kelly) and the gut-punch version (McChrystal), but two four-star generals today were critical of Trump as president. Kelly, Mattis, McChrystal criticizing Trump is of a different order than former political operatives criticizing him.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Hilarious when officials of admin that spent $831billion on stimulus say $15 billion 4 wall "outrageously expensive"
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Found this by the side of the road ... #amnestydon #burnmyMAGAhat
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
That would be one of the downsides of telling Republicans they are sinners who've destroyed America's "soul."
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Michael Powell
3 years
Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance. They’re Not Interested. At All. ⁦ @AsteadWesley ⁩ crackling here - The New York Times
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Attention red states! With enough immigration (illegal and legal) you can have a Senator who says things like this too ...
@KamalaHarris
Kamala Harris
7 years
It’s outrageous the administration is saying anyone who might have committed a crime qualifies for deportations.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Additional context: He was deported in 2012 under Obama (due to criminal record).
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New York Times World
7 years
Adopted at 8 by Americans, Phillip Clay was deported to South Korea after 29 years in U.S. He killed himself in May.
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
Krauthammer on the Wall: "It’s hard to understand the opposition. It’s the most venerable & reliable way to keep people out. The triple fence outside San Diego led to a 90 percent reduction in infiltration. Israel’s border fence...has produced a similar decline in terror attacks"
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
Shock Poll: Trump Gains 19 Points with Latino Voters During Border Wall Shutdown
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Amazing that Dems have spent 98% of their energy since Nov. 2106 trying to undo the election--grasping at any possibility (Steele, Mueller, Wolff, etc.)--instead of figuring out why they lost voters in PA, MI, WI. Seems suicidal.
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
If it's going to be 21 days of the Jared Kushner Show, with your out-of-league son-in-law offering up increasingly large & awful amnesty plans in exchange for some wall money, please PULL THE PLUG NOW.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
21 days goes very quickly. Negotiations with Democrats will start immediately. Will not be easy to make a deal, both parties very dug in. The case for National Security has been greatly enhanced by what has been happening at the Border & through dialogue. We will build the Wall!
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
The child is in that picture because of Judge Gee, no? It was her Flores rulings that made bringing kids across the border the ticket to entry into US.
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Edward Wong
5 years
Print edition of @nytimes today
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
Removing families the courts have ordered removed? What'll they think of next?
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Jim Acosta
5 years
Trump admin considers deporting families with removal orders in order to deter migrants
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Green cards 4 children who've been smuggled is "surest way to guarantee a never-ending supply" of smuggled children
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Once Trump fired Comey and said it was about Russia, not even AG Barr could have avoided a special prosecutor.
@AnnCoulter
Ann Coulter
4 years
Sessions HAD to recuse himself, you complete blithering idiot. YOU did not have to go on Lester Holt's show and announce you fired Comey over the Russian investigation. That's what got you a Special Prosecutor.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Jesse Jackson: Trump's inauguration speech was 'full of hope and inclusion'
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Apparently you can't get away from the guy
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Byron York
7 years
On CNN, Sen. Dianne Feinstein describes meetings with Russian ambassador. 'I believe he's been in my office from time to time.'
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
High percentage favor "stricter" enforcement of immig laws (70%--ncluding 51% of Dems) and think border security is inadequate (61%). 55% support tightening asylum criteria-lower than I'd expect. Opposition to 'sanctuary' policies through the roof (84%)
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
This is a good idea. Show that his actions have substantial popular support. Don't let the MSM/Resistance complex hog all the media space.
@AnnCoulter
Ann Coulter
7 years
TRUMP NEEDS TO HOLD A RALLY!
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
In CA! "Regarding...Trump’s promise 2 deport illegal immigrants, 44 % said it would make California 'better off'’’
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
"All this talk abt how a Republican can't win the White House unless they support immigration reform-apparently it's not true"- @davidgregory
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Note to Trump: Signing DREAM Act will "make the KKK stuff go away" like firing Comey made the Russia stuff go away
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
I'd missed this one.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Huh? I didn't see any mention of "Confederate symbols" in the speech, or in the list of "heroes." More the opposite--celebrations of North winning the civil war, abolitionists, etc.
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Robert Costa
4 years
President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination was crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore. My latest report w/ @PhilipRucker
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Mickey Kaus
2 years
If the variant is scary enough to prompt a travel ban, why give it a three day head start?
@RealSaavedra
Ryan Saavedra
2 years
Yikes.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
"Huffington Post Removes Blog Post Saying Trump Is ‘Absolutely Right’ About Sweden" Does not seem an offensive post.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
If they don't tell you which party in the first 7 paragraphs, it's a Democrat ...
@nytimes
The New York Times
4 years
The mayor of Muncie, Indiana, was indicted on Monday on a charge of accepting illegal cash payments, bringing to a head a multiyear federal investigation of corruption allegations that have engulfed his administration
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Crazy that people are prosecuted for lying to the FBI solely on the basis of FBI agents' notes -- let alone notes revised twice after the fact. Maybe it's time for bureau to acknowledge the invention of the tape recorder.
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Byron York
4 years
Seems amazing that the Michael Flynn case has gone on so long, with so much confusion about what was said in a single FBI interview. Cause of confusion? There's no recording, and notes were edited and re-packaged. It all stems from that.
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Why doesn't @realDonaldTrump avoid all this by promising to veto any must-pass spending bill that includes a DACA amnesty?
@FAIRImmigration
Federation for American Immigration Reform
6 years
URGENT: Call your three Members of Congress and urge them to make sure the government is funded without a DACA amnesty. Call your Representative: 202-883-4964 Call your two Senators: 202-873-9877 It's on YOU to stop the year-end DACA amnesty rush!
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
In the last hour I've gotten 5 communications from pro-Biden friends trying to somehow shame me for this post. People I haven't heard from in a long time! Did some kind of 'call-a-friend' email go out? Are the Biden people that scared of this story? Seems weird.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Retweeting this from Wash Times because Great Firewall of Biden means friends are having trouble finding it. You can assess. Giluiani says this is text from Hunter to his daughter: “But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Merkel thought having a big event w/ Obama where he lectured abt walls was the way 2 bring Trump around on climate?
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
Good, everyday example of the MSM reflexively knocking down anything that might have helped Trump. When do we get the old press back? (I'm guessing never.)
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
66% of Mexicans say "U.S....has no right to limit immigration" per Pew Perhaps this is root cause of the conflict!
@ByronYork
Byron York
7 years
It appears Mexico's foreign minister believes he has a veto on a US president's executive orders.
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Democratic strategists advise their candidates to spend “as little time as possible” talking about immigration. Maybe Republican candidates should spend as much time as possible talking about immigration?
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
Why the move to shiv Feinstein now, when her "cognitive decline" has allegedly been "evident for several years"? I've watched too many murder mysteries--this one is easy. The motive's in plain sight. She said she was a vote against filibuster/court packing
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
Ryan jumping on FBI news shows he's worried he's pissed off voters & damaged his future by fragging the nominee, no?
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
A friend emails: "Let's go to Red Hen, have a nice long meal and near the end put on MAGA hats and see if they comp us."
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
California could end GOP voter fraud argument by allowing check of voter lists, no? Why not?
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JohnGilmore
7 years
Me: voter fraud exists Them: there’s no proof whatsoever Me: let’s have a thorough investigation once & for all Them: voter suppression!
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
Insane. Georgia runoff all over again.
@ByronYork
Byron York
3 years
Former President Trump issues a threat.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Local pharmacy broken into Sat night. Smashed side door. Proprietor says every pharmacy in Bev Hills was broken into between 8PM and 11PM. Sounds well-organized. "What were they after?" "Drugs and money."
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
Key for Trump: Awfully tempting to make the "Bill" sex comparison. But let others do it for you. Win debate by apologizing/talking issues.
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Mickey Kaus
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NYT: Wealth inequality "remained high." TRANSLATION: Income inequality went down. "The bottom 90 percent of the income distribution actually saw its share of overall earnings increase slightly in 2019 — reversing a decade-long decline."
@nytpolitics
NYT Politics
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A Federal Reserve survey of family finances shows that wealth inequality remained high last year. It could worsen because of the pandemic.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Trump's appointed 9 of 29 -- this is "filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives"?
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
To whom it may concern: Wall means wall.
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Mickey Kaus
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"[W]eren’t we told that the 'dreamers' 'know no other country but America?' Why would they be voting in Mexico’s elections?"
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
What's a bigger incentive for illegal immig. than saying: "If you sneak in your kids get to be Americans"? DACA has big long term costs.
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Mickey Kaus
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Byron York: Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law V-useful primer. It's more than just the Wall.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Retweeting this from Wash Times because Great Firewall of Biden means friends are having trouble finding it. You can assess. Giluiani says this is text from Hunter to his daughter: “But don’t worry unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
"During the last surge of families, in 2014 and 2015, the Obama administration bought thousands of detention beds and detained the families. ... When they started getting deported, that earlier surge dried up."
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
Translation--Trump won
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
Still don't quite understand why I'm supposed to be outraged that White House gave some information 2 a Congressman (assuming it's accurate)
@ByronYork
Byron York
7 years
New: 11 things to remember about Trump-Russia affair.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
MSM LOSING MIND @ScottPelley zings Trump for low deportation numbers in January, 2017. When was inauguration again?
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
If you'd stop saying "We need workers" and "We want people to come in" at every available opportunity, it would help ...
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Wall Street Journal: “More migrant families crossing into the U.S. illegally have been arrested in the first five months of the federal fiscal year than in any prior full year.” We are doing a great job at the border, but this is a National Emergency!
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
. @Twitter really doesn't want me to get to that story. Have to go through 2 extra pages. "Warning: This link may be unsafe." It's a perfectly straightforward report on Greece building a new section of border wall. Read it to see how unmoored @Jack 's Woke Millennials have become
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Mickey Kaus
2 years
Heroic effort to muddy or avoid the obvious: the apartheid regime depended on the sort of censorship and removal of "misinformation" that Musk wants to end at @Twitter .
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
She doesn't read the papers? Have a computer? This isn't very plausible.
@ChadPergram
Chad Pergram
6 years
Judiciary Cmte GOPers: Ford’s attorneys did not tell her that we could protect her privacy and speak to her in California..It is deeply unfortunate that Dr. Ford’s Democratic-activist lawyers appear to have used Dr. Ford in order to advance their own political agenda.
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Mickey Kaus
7 years
If Trump doesn't get Wall built he loses much of base. If he PICKS A GRATUITOUS FIGHT ON THE WALL & THEN CAVES ON THE WALL, heaven help him.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
ALTERNATIVE TAKE! MSM is worried Trump might get a sympathy vote. So they have to make the story all about WH "lying," conflicting stories, etc.
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CNN
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"It wasn't just sort of conveying an 'upbeat attitude.' It was purposefully misleading yesterday about a very basic issue, which is whether or not [Trump] had been on supplemental oxygen...that's important." - @DrSanjayGupta on misleading medical briefings
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
Trump "racist" answer effective, but he's been on the defensive a lot, hasn't he? Has Holt asked HRC a single nasty ? #workingtherefworks
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Mickey Kaus
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The GOP's "most re­li­able voters are en­tirely dis­con­nec­ted from the GOP lead­er­ship"
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
WE NEED A NEW FOX: Paul Ryan (now on Fox board!) urging the network to “decisively break” with Trump.
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Mickey Kaus
8 years
Rubio: "I don't want to do anything Jesus wouldn't be proud of." But when gotta make a dick joke you gotta make a dick joke!
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Mickey Kaus
3 years
17% support
@MarkSKrikorian
Mark Krikorian
3 years
Trudeau’s Plan to Ramp Up Immigration Falls Flat With Canadians
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Wait. @NewYorker ran a long analysis of the VP debate from someone who didn't even watch the whole debate? "I confess that I did not subject myself to watching the debate live, instead relying [on] social media to circulate [the] most relevant portions..."
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
This headline is pretty amazing.
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
6 years
White nationalists angered by Mexican immigrant’s acquittal in Kate Steinle’s killing
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Mickey Kaus
5 years
Could shutdown be an end in itself? If you keep reinstating high-priority people, and leave the rest furloughed, have you achieved something conservatives have NEVER been able to achieve--cutting the size of government by eliminating the fat. Zero-based budgeting!
@anniekarni
Annie Karni
5 years
Missed this. Another senior administration official anonymous op-ed, this one in favor of the shutdown to smoke out the resistance. via @dailycaller
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
I think the Red States would take this deal
@LannyDavis
Lanny Davis
4 years
1) DEAR RED STATES; WE'RE LEAVING. We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, we're taking the other Blue States with us...that includes Hawaii, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all the Northeast.
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Mickey Kaus
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@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
4 years
In America, our Presidents have generally avoided strongman balcony scenes — that’s for other countries with authoritarian systems.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
This makes the case for gun control a whole lot harder to make, no? If you can't rely on the police to protect you ...
@odonnell_r
Rob O'Donnell
4 years
Due to the coronavirus crisis, Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.
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Mickey Kaus
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Now we know why Trump wanted a taller, less easily climbed fence. Too bad he let Congress forbid him from building one. (But he got @speakerRyan 's tax cuts!)
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Mickey Kaus
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If @Politico as effective at blocking the Wall as it was at blocking Trump, it will be built in record time ...
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Am I hard of hearing or did @ABCWorldNews just insert in its dire coronavirus coverage--as quickly and unemotionally as humanly possible--that "cases are declining in 29 states"? Whispering the lede.
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Mickey Kaus
4 years
Even if chloroquine and other drugs are not "cures"--let's assume they aren't--if they *help* they will 'flatten the curve' and keep people out of ICUs. We're told we need to do that in a matter of days. No time for rigorous large clinical trials (not that they shouldn't be done)
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Mickey Kaus
6 years
Even if Trump said something wrong, why would anyone negotiate with Sen. Durbin again? I'd say 'Send someone else.' CNN's narrative--that Durbin only went public after Trump tweeted denial--suggests some Durbin defensiveness on this issue.
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