Category: Current Events

“Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.” This was the lead paragraph of the story in the New York Times Saturday morning, October…

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Thinking about my Trump-loving friends after his recent Twitter tirade, made during the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, in which he maligned a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, and presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Is this what those Trump supporters want to look forward to during a Trump presidency: news coverage of their president tweeting nonsense in the…

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While I was driving home after a meeting Monday night and listening to the Trump-Clinton debate, I heard Donald Trump say that his not paying taxes — according to the couple of tax returns he released many years ago — was “smart.” Later this evening, after the debate, I saw a reporter from CNN, Dana Bash, ask Trump about his…

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On Sept. 16, Donald Trump finally acknowledged what all have known for years, that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Trump announced this in a heavily teased and foreshadowed event intended to promote one of his hotels, and of course the announcement received breathless and extensive news coverage. Trump not apologize for being one of the most vigorous proponents…

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One of the most moving speeches of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week was a speech given by Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of American Army Captain Humayun Khan who died in Iraq; the speech was given with his wife Ghazala by his side. In Khan’s speech, he said, addressing Presidential candidate Donald Trump, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.” Khan,…

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There is a classic sales technique called “hurt and rescue.” In the hurt and rescue approach, the sales person works very hard to make the person he is trying to sell feel pain and discomfort, and to experience his/her problems as intensely as possible. When the sales person has the target in a distressed state, really feeling his pain, the…

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People — mostly broadcast journalists — who have been praising Presidential Candidate Donald Trump for saying “LGBTQ” at his nomination acceptance speech, those people need to stop praising him. During his Presidential nomination acceptance speech July 21 in Cleveland, Trump said, “Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted [the]…

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Trump is dreadful and irrational. He has repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton for her vote to support the war in Iraq (based on lies from a Bush administration whose goal was, as we all know now, to try to take control of Iraqi oil). He has claimed that her vote represents “bad judgment,” and that her bad judgment is a reason…

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Donald Trump has demonstrated his inability to manage his announcement of his vice presidential pick. It is really amazing. On Thursday, many media sources reported that Pence had been chosen. Then, Trump said he would wait to make his announcement until the weekend, because of the attack in Nice, France on Thursday night. However, on Thursday evening, Trump called into…

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