The Inside Poop

A survey of current political issues and opinions out there,
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Response to Adaptive Christianity

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Adaptive Christianity ) And now for something completely different: A Defense of Donald Trump's Religion. N...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Response to America's Women

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(See: Just Above Sunset: America's Women ) The fact that so many women are impressed by this blatant lounge lizard makes me wish someb...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Response to Committing Journalism

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(See: Just Above Sunset:Committing Journalism ) When I first saw that video of the Donald Trump-Jorge Rojas bout, I assumed maybe I hadn...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Response to A Long Way

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(See: Just Above Sunset: A Long Time ) Reading Janell Ross's Washington Post piece on Donald Trump's defense of his use of the ter...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Response to Political Socialization

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Socialization ) Back in the 1980s, when I was publishing a national newsletter for the TV news industry...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Response to Something Wicked

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Something Wicked ) As to the question of countries honoring "birthright citizenship", Trump must have h...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Response to Incitement

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Incitement ) Ted Cruz is really against birthright citizenship ? "I welcome Donald Trump articulating thi...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Response to The Useless Specifics

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Useless Specifics ) First off, I have my own beef with Chuck Todd. In that famous interview segment with Do...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Response to The Family Trust

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Family Trust ) Does anyone use the phrase, "Still waters run deep" anymore? In case you're youn...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Response to The Actual Job

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Actual Job ) My god, that was so cleansing! Yes, the reminder of that night in 2011 at the Correspondents...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Response to In the Alternative Universe

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(See: Just Above Sunset: In the Alternative Universe ) As we all continue to struggle to find the slam-dunk analogy to explain the Donald ...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Response to No Lessons Learned

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(See: Just Above Sunset: No Lessons Learned ) I saw it here the other day that Grover Norquist, the conservative who outrageously once sa...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Response to Fight Night

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(See: Just Above Sunset: "Fight Night" ) I must confess I feel guilty commenting on Donald Trump. After all, he is the "gim...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Response to Forced Clarity

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(See:  Just Above Sunset: Forced Clarity ) Before he left his Comedy Central show, Stephen Colbert's schtick was to lampoon conservati...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Response to The Road Taken

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(See:  Just Above Sunset: T he Road Taken ) If you're looking for some sort of proof that Donald Trump never backed away from a stupid...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Response to Changing Lanes

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Changing Lanes ) Almost twenty years ago, we were vacationing in the Carolinas when, while staying at a motel, my...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Response to At a Minimum

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(See: Just Above Sunset: "At a Minimum" ) I’ll still vote for Bernie Sanders, but I think he’s off base here: “Unchecked growt...

Response to Precision German Engineering

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(See: Just Above Sunset: "Precision German Engineering" ) I like the way that 51-year old Berliner, Martin Glaser, thinks: ...
Friday, August 29, 2008

A Failure of Intelligence

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By Alan Pavlik & Rick Brown The fact is, knowing about the world is like sporting an understated, but impressively well-tailored, Sevi...
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Worked in and out of journalism for almost 50 years, including a stint at NBC News as a Today Show news assistant; as a photo editor at AP Photos in New York; as one of the founding employees of CNN in 1980 in Atlanta, starting and running the Satellite Desk; and as Publisher and Editor of TV News Journal, a newsletter for and about TV journalism.
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