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How They Know What They Know–And How Can We Know They Know? Really?
Our latest fracas over Russian hacking and what our intelligence agencies know about it is symptomatic of the incompatibility between democracy and a national security/national intelligence state. Read more
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The Trump Effect
Now, with President Trump as the role model, there’s no reason to think that his success will be interpreted as anything less than an invitation for the Monstrous Deplorables to act on their hatred. Read more
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Profile of Political Idiocy
Look, if the Democratic Party wants to be competitive, they cannot rely on the idiot vote. So what Democrats need to do is figure out a way to move people from the idiot category to the informed category. Read more
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Intelligence, the Iraq War and Russian Hackers
Over time, if not diligently confronted, the lie becomes accepted history. We cannot afford to let this particular lie become entrenched in our mainstream consciousness. Read more
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I Hate it When I’m Right
THE “IDIOT” FACTOR IN TRUMP POLITICS Some months before the election I offered my final word on Donald Trump…or so I had hoped. Turns out…not so much. Anyway, in this post I suggested that Trump supporters could be divided into three categories: Idiots, Bigots, and Political Sociopaths (though I didn’t use that particular term, I… Read more
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Countering the Faking Fakers who Fake the News
SLOW KNOWLEDGE: ADVICE ON HOW TO BE A SMART NEWS CONSUMER At long last we as a society, facing the so-called information age in which the quantity of data is no longer a problem, are asking ourselves questions about the quality of that data. The Trump election is a wake-up call for anyone who lives… Read more
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