From Code 45 Trump’s Wilsonian Presidency It is hard to find comparison’s in American history for the first 147-days of the Trump Presidency. It is, however, decidedly Wilsonian. Woodrow Wilson, the former Princeton University President and great internationalist, you ask? No – George Wilson, the grumpy neighbor from Dennis the Menace. Trump’s signature policies to …
Reposted from Code45 Understanding Trump’s Calamitous Climate Change Decision in 20 Tweets #1 – CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL The Weather Channel's response to Trump's Paris pullout was potent and perfect. https://t.co/nm3chKi5Yc pic.twitter.com/5u7P1orxMH — Slate (@Slate) June 1, 2017 #2 – IT IS NOT JUST AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE, IT IS A HEALTH CRISIS Lancet Countdown's …
JFK, Trump and the Tragedy of Tolemac May 28, 2007 In claiming he will “Make America Great Again,” Donald Trump is evoking some pre-Vietnam era of prosperity where the world drove American cars and “we won wars”. Maybe he is evoking the storied days of Camelot when President Kennedy led the nation back from a recession …
In comparing Canada and the United States in their statements on Ramadan, you will see that one country is led by a bright, articulate leader and the other nation is led by Donald Trump. Trudeau’s statement is sincere, respectful and inclusive, while Trump spends approximately half the message on terrorism. Trump equates Islam with terrorism. … Continue reading
President Kennedy was killed when I was only six-months old. I have no memory of a living Jack Kennedy, but that does not mean he was not a major force in my life. Growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in New England in this era, his presence was felt in the photographs, busts and even … Continue reading
In 2011, Public Policy Polling (“PPP) sampled voters in Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina on attitudes about the Civil War and Jim Crow and saw a sizable minority wished that the South had won the Civil War and that interracial marriage remained illegal. MS GA NC Wish South Had Won Civil War 27% 23 21% — … Continue reading
The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards and I am pleased to be included for the 12th Consecutive Year with my 21st and 22nd nomination. Winners will be announced at a June 25, 2017 gala that will honor NBC’s Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jake Tapper. Cyber Report … Continue reading
Choosing the Republic Over the Republican Party: A Challenge to Rep. Katko and Sen. Toomey While I am a lifelong Democrat, I consider myself fortunate to know two Republican members of Congress. I was a high school classmate of Senator Pat Toomey and shared a secretary with Congressman John Katko when we were young lawyers … Continue reading
FROM CODE 45 Jewish facilities in eight states, the District of Columbia and Toronto were the target of threats today, including bomb threats to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington. Even prior to these incidents, the ADL had tracked 122 bomb threats so far this year. This sparked every … Continue reading
From Code45 There are several things that are extremely troubling about Attorney General Jeff Sessions getting ensnared in Russiagate. He is the Attorney General and lying under oath as part of his confirmation is a serious matter (a point he emphasized during the Clinton impeachment proceedings). Prior to the Trump campaign, Sessions was a hawk … Continue reading
From Code45 Citing the “alarming increase in bias-motivated violence” since the election of President Trump that has left “[m]any members of racial, ethnic and religious minority communities, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, live in very real fear for their safety,” Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) … Continue reading
Coretta Scott King, Jeff Sessions and the GOP Originally Published on Code45.us. This evening the United States Senate found Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren out of order for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee with regard to Jeff Session’s 1986 nomination to serve as a federal judge in Alabama. … Continue reading
On February 2, Reuters reported that the Trump Administration was changing the Department of Homeland Security’s program “Countering Violent Extremism”. The program would now focus exclusively on “radical Islamic extremism” and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States. The timing of … Continue reading
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The Trump Administration is revamping the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism,” or CVE program. It will now be called “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism,”and will no longer target groups such as white supremacists according to a Reuters report. This is despite: the presence of more than…
Today I launched Code 45, a new blog devoted to providing background information on important issues related to the Trump Administration. Many of the posts I will reblog on this page as well, but wanted to have a repository of research and commentary that others could draw from. Our first posts examine the Alt-Right Connections … Continue reading
TRUMP’S SHAMEFUL EXECUTIVE ORDER WASHINGTON LETTER TO TOURO SYNAGOGUE ORDER BARS LEGAL RESIDENTS Breaking: Trump exec order so broad it could bar 500k *legal residents* from travelinghttps://t.co/2b1yoVuEKQ pic.twitter.com/Fk9LJ5hE7h — ProPublica (@ProPublica) January 28, 2017 EXCLUDES COUNTRIES TRUMP DOES BUSINESS WITH This #MuslimBan is not about security. It's about racism and bigotry.And … Continue reading
0 Evidence That Trump Has Resigned from Business Enterprises Despite using manila folders as prop showing he had resigned from his business entities, the Trump Administration has provided no evidence to date that he has in fact resigned. 1 George Orwell’s 1984 Rank on Amazon.com Best Sellers List White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway’s claim that … Continue reading
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Debating the American Empire With Stephen Kinzer Last week, in his inaugural address, Donald Trump highlighted conflicting themes in discussing U.S. foreign policy. He expressed frustration with U.S. global commitments – We defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own. And spent trillions and trillions…
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Today we feature one of our pre-recorded interviews with authors from the Miami Book Fair – Ari Berman a senior contributing writer for The Nation and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. Website Twitter Purchase ? Give Us the Ballot was…
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Michael Cohen on 1968 and the Birth of Disunion Today we feature one of our pre-recorded interviews with authors from the Miami Book Fair – Boston Globe columnist Michael A. Cohen author of American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division. Website Twitter Purchase In American…
