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Anyone have a sword available for him to fall upon after his commentary of illegals invading Michigan? “Happening right now,” Michigan GOP Lawmaker State Rep. Matt Maddock wrote. “Three busses [sic] just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” Attached to the tweet were grainy photos of white buses at Detroit’s airport and a plane. He tagged Pete Hoekstra, a...

I was catching up on the back issues of New Yorker accumulating on the coffee table, and read an article about the rise and decline of libertarianism in the GOP. The idea that anything resembling libertarianism was actually popular in the Republican Party is a joke. Ostensibly, libertarian wants to shrink big government. OK, lets talk about that. The US military is (1) one of the largest government programs, and (2) the most transparently socialist...

I was catching up on the back issues of New Yorker accumulating on the coffee table, and read an article about the rise and decline of libertarianism in the GOP. The idea that anything resembling libertarianism was actually popular in the Republican Party is a joke. Ostensibly, libertarian wants to shrink big government. OK, lets talk about that. The US military is (1) one of the largest government programs, and (2) the most transparently socialist...

A Thousand Words, Version 3 Tags: Covid 19, GOP, rational expectations, risk management, vaccinations

The recovery has since picked up speed, so the deficit should be falling especially fast right now. Unfortunately, the FRED data site does not have updated figures, but the deficit is no longer falling. Indeed it’s exploding, expected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2019. Nothing like this has ever happened in America during a period of peace and prosperity. There is such a firehose of spending that Washington is hardly able to shovel dollars out the door as fast as they are being...

Turf wars.Sputnik InternationalFormer Trump Strategist Bannon Warns GOP Candidates Against Kochs' 'Toxic' Money

Marco Rubio has second thoughts. Watch GOP candidates up for reelection in 2018 backpedal.Grasping RealityAnd now it is official: the official non-Trumpist Republican line is now that all of that stuff about the tax "reform" bill delivering materially faster economic growth in exchange for widening inequality was just boob bait for the bubbas.Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley

The shoe drops. The Hill Kasich: I can't support the GOP if it doesn't reformMallory Shelbourne

Giving the GOP establishment heartburn. Hey, they asked for it. RawStoryJoe Arpaio tells GOP he’s hot on the trail of Obama’s birth certificate and running for Congress Newsweek also Newsweek Joe Arpaio Revives Birtherism, Defends Record As Sheriff, Teases Return To Politics In Fresno Alexander Nazaryan See also FortuneRoy Moore Makes Ted Cruz Look Like a DemocratAllen Tullos is a professor of history at Emory University

Former White House strategist and current Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has teamed up with conservative donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer to promote insurgent candidates to challenge the GOP establishment and create an organizational apparatus to advance the populist and economic nationalist policies championed by those candidates.... Breitbart News The Long Game: Bannon Creates Political Coalition to Advance Populist Economic Nationalist Agenda and Smash the Establishment...