Robots Read News – about Celebrity Apprentice

If you can’t see the image below because your company fire wall is being a dick, follow me on Twitter here. I laughed for ten minutes when it occurred to me that Carson, Fiorina, and Cruz are (in the view of many) competing for the Celebrity Apprentice spot as Vice President….

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Trump Engineers a Clinton Linguistic Kill Shot

An alert reader noticed that Trump is already beta-testing a linguistic kill shot for Hillary Clinton. As Yohami accurately notes, this kill shot is also a high ground maneuver. It takes you out of the weeds of the email server question (where reasonable folks can be confused and disagree) all…

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Trump and Godwin’s Law

The media is having a hard time wounding Trump. The attacks keep bouncing off. Looks like they stepped up their game today. Here’s the SHOCKING story of how Trump once owned, or still owns, a book of Hitler’s speeches. It was a gift from a friend. Trump admits it and names the…

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Nate Silver Gives Trump 2% Chance of Getting Nominated

On August 6th, Nate Silver predicted in his highly-respected FiveThiryEight blog that Donald Trump had only a 2% chance of getting the Republican nomination. Silver’s prediction is based on historical patterns, solid data, and sound reasoning. He’s great at what he does. Maybe the best. A week later, on August 13th, I wrote…

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The Iranian Nuke Deal You Don’t Understand

So, the U.S. and Iran agreed to a nuke deal that looks to many observers as if we might be terrible negotiators. But we have no way of knowing what the secret side agreements are. And one assumes there are a few. Have you noticed that the Israeli lobbying efforts…

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Trump Persuasion Alert: Bible Dodge

If you have been following my analysis of Trump’s persuasive brilliance you will see another example on display in this new story. On the surface, Trump seems to be just another politician dodging just another question. Routine stuff, right? But check out the wording. He had that reply in the chamber,…

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The Third Way on Immigration (Sort of a Trump Post)

Readers have objected to my prediction that Trump will win the nomination and then the general election because… 1. Trump needs about 40% of the Latino vote to win. 2. Only 13% of Latino voters support Trump, largely because of his immigration plan. No politician can close that gap. Therefore, say the people…

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Trump VS Bush: Persuasion Wars

Introduction: Someone accused me of having a man-crush on Trump because I keep writing about him. I plead guilty. I have no idea whether he would be a good President or not, and I don’t believe you know either. My man-crush is based on Trump’s persuasion skills. I have never…

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The Day You Became a Better Writer (2nd Look)

One of my blog posts from 2007 has been making the rounds on social media this week. (Thank you, Naval Ravikant.) I take that as a signal that I should re-post it here in case you missed it the first time. And now a second look… The Day You Became A Better…

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Anchors Away

I hear you in the comments that you are tired of my Trump posts.  But if he keeps delivering a master class in influence, you will hear a lot more about his methods. I’m not terribly interested in politics, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see influence as an…

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Political Reporters Cover a Business Candidate

The presidential campaign is being covered by political reporters, for the most part. That makes perfect sense because the subjects of the reporting are mostly politicians. But Donald Trump is a business person. If you apply a political filter to a business person, you get nonsense. Likewise, if you have…

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Wizard Wars

Foreward: Everything that follows is true, to the best of my knowledge, but you can fact-check me on the Internet. Let me know if I got anything wrong. As I often warn you, don’t get your opinions about anything important from cartoonists. This blog is for entertainment, not enlightenment. You’re on…

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Clown Genius

Like many of you, I have been entertained by the unstoppable clown car that is Donald Trump. On the surface, and several layers deep as well, Trump appears to be a narcissistic blow-hard with inadequate credentials to lead a country. The only problem with my analysis is that there is…

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Trump’s Plan to “Put a ring around” ISIS

Presidential candidate Donald Trump said today that he would “put a ring around ISIS” and take the oil, thus recouping some war costs and starving them of their resources at the same time. I have no idea if that is a good plan or a bad plan. But in my 2004…

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