Porky Trump’s Parade and the Roman Triumph
I suppose it was inevitable, and nobody should be surprised. When you have a bloated authoritarian would be dictator like Donald Trump in the White House.One who needs to be…
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Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Finn reminds us that Canada has ample resources to bring about positive social change – just as long as we start taxing…
Donald Trump’s Day of Total Economic Humiliation
It had to be one of the funniest days in the ghastly presidency of Donald Trump. And for the bloated orange oaf, one of his most humiliating.For there he was…
Trashing Trump.
It is the new cottage industry in North America—and probably the entire world. We just need our daily fix on what is wrong with American President Donald Trump. The best…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Kochan takes a look at what workers would want done with the cost of corporate tax cuts if they weren’t being silenced…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses the apparent destructive belief among Davos’ elites that irrational exuberance and top-heavy economic gains are remotely sustainable: The world is…
Who Will Trump Nuke First, The FBI Or North Korea?
As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump is at war with the FBI, in a desperate attempt to save himself from Robert Mueller.And although it's a war he cannot win.…
Trump follows the formula.
That did not need to be the real Donald Trump addressing Americans the other evening. The State of the Nation address is now down to a formula that a trained…
Donald Trump and the Fictitious State of the Union
I tried to watch Donald Trump's State of the Union address last night from start to finish.But it was really long, and really boring, and since I was lounging on…
Report from the front lines of America.
While Vassy Kapelos of Global Television was interviewing David Frum last Sunday, the wife kept asking me questions. When she asked why a Canadian would write a book about Donald…
The travels and trials of Trump.
President Donald Trump of the U.S.A. went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the other day. Few of the attendees at the world convention of capitalism cared. The…
Donald Trump and the Golden Toilet
It's the kind of request that would have made poor old Vincent Van Gogh cut off his other ear.Donald Trump writing to the Guggenheim Museum to ask if he could…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Sheng discusses the role of oversimplified assumptions about economic development in exacerbating wealth and income inequality: The American era has been very…
Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous And Possibly Fatal Condition
As you know Donald Trump somehow managed to pass his first medical check-up as president.And although some suspect the fix was in, even aced a cognitive test designed to reveal…
Donald Trump’s Disappointing and Depressing Anniversary
Donald Trump must have been so disappointed. He wanted to spend the weekend in Mar-A-Lago, celebrating his one-year anniversary in power with his billionaire friends.And of course, playing even more…
The Walls of NAFTA.
There is more than one wall to consider when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiators meet in Montreal this week. The wall that the negotiations is creating between…
Donald Trump: The President and the Porn Star
Dan MurphyDonald Trump does a lot of bad and dirty things. Always has, always will. It's the nature of the beast.But the one that disgusts me the most, without the…
Donald Trump’s Sinister Fake News Awards
In my last post I lamented the fact that the White House doctor had horrified people all over the world, by giving Donald Trump a clean bill of health.And by…
Are You Ready For Donald Trump The Cartoon President?
I know it's not a nice thing to say, but I have to admit that when I saw the White House doctor declare that Donald Trump had passed a cognitive…