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19 May 2017, 11:50 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Hatch (R-UT), and House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) (collectively the “Chairs”) sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen requesting additional information on the summons. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Similarly, putative Senate moderates like Lindsey Graham and John McCain joined in to claim that Clinton’s win did not make her a legitimate president.These Republicans pointed to Clinton’s relatively slim margins of victory in key states like New Hampshire, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In another bizarre attempt at an argument, former House Speaker John Boehner complained that a high-speed rail project in California and Nevada would not help his constituents in Ohio. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
What I have always found fascinating is how many conservatives simply cannot accept the fact that their secular religion – trickle-down economics – is not exempt from the rules of logic and mathematics.Let me be clear, however, that I am not one of those economists who claims that our branch of the social sciences is a Real Science – proudly pounding our chests about the upper-case “R” and “S” – that can be just as much of a science as… [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Before this year, the few of us who had heard of Mick Mulvaney knew only that he was one of the Republican Party’s most extreme anti-government ideologues, a leading Tea Partier who helped to force out John Boehner as Speaker of the House and who was willing to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a means to advance his reactionary agenda.Now, Mulvaney has been installed as Donald Trump’s budget director, and his job is to try to explain to the American people why Trump’s… [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Less than a month into his presidency, Donald Trump and his associates seem to be doing everything they can do to undermine their own authority. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 10:52 am by pscamp01
HARLAN’s interrogatory, stated that he would “vote to hang the n****r-stealer as high as Haman,& [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Ever since the election results came in on November 8, the ritual on the center and left has been to say that we need to reach out to some of the non-majority of voters who voted for Trump, in order to reestablish credibility with the hurting people who, in their desperation, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for a dangerous demagogue.Part of that conversation has involved gingerly stepping around the question of racism and other bigotries that might have been motivating some of Trump’s… [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Ohio Governor John Kasich, for example, announced that he wrote in John McCain’s name on his ballot (in a state where that vote would quite literally not be counted).It continues to be a mystery to me that people do not understand the simple logic of voting. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After all, a key element of the Buchanan-Dorf analysis was inspired by the nation’s unfortunate experience under Richard Nixon, the president whose abuses of power Trump might most envy and even try to outdo.During his abbreviated presidency, Nixon claimed that he could refuse to spend money even after Congress had appropriated it for specific purposes. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 10:00 pm by News Desk
Leading the project is Faith Critzer, Ph.D., a food safety specialist with UT Extension in Knoxville, along with colleagues Annette Wszelaki, Ph.D., a vegetable production specialist, and John Buchanan, Ph.D., a biosystems engineer. [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
National and international media organizations are scouring the Clinton leaks, and they cannot find anything newsworthy.Surprisingly, the political comedian John Oliver said this past Sunday that “WikiLeaks continued to release emails connected to the Clinton campaign that raise serious issues, from that campaign’s behavior to the fact the hack may have come from the Russian government to how journalists should respond to stolen documents. [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Whoever won the Republican presidential nomination, from Ted Cruz to John Kasich and everyone in between, would have done the same.The Absurdity of Trump’s Economic BlusterNeil Irwin of The New York Times provided an excellent analysis of Trump’s most recent speech on economic issues, where Trump claimed that he could create 25 million new jobs over the next decade while increasing the growth rate of GDP to 3.5 percent (and to four percent thereafter). [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 2:00 am by vhunt
University of Wisconsin Law SchoolProfessor John Rappaport, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago School of Law, presents today via the Institute for Legal Studies: How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
A few months ago, former House Speaker John Boehner made news by referring to Senator Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh. [read post]
13 Jun 2016, 5:30 am
Any feedback from members may be sent to me, Bruce Buchanan of Sebelist Buchanan Law PLLC at bbuchanan@sblimmigration.com or John Gihon of Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon at John@slgattorneys.com. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 5:30 am
Any feedback from members may be sent to me, Bruce Buchanan of Sebelist Buchanan Law PLLC at bbuchanan@sblimmigration.com or John Gihon of Shorstein, Lasnetski & Gihon at John@slgattorneys.com. [read post]