Richard Florida

Meet Democraps Jon Ossoff, Conor Lamb and Andrew Janz170 members of the American Political Science Association who specialize in presidential history participated in an annual poll that ranked every U.S. president. Trump displaced one-termer James Buchanan-- a pro-slavery Democrat from Pennsylvania-- as the nation's worst president.

I didn't realize that urbanologist Richard Florida was overtly political. I guess Trump is pissing him off as much as he's pissing off the rest of the country-- and the world.. Yesterday Florida tweeted that "It is the sole motivation of our plutocratic president & leadership.

The new issue of the Harvard Business Review carried an adaptation by urbanologist Richard Florida from his new book, The New Urban Crisis, warning about "a sterile sameness" that's been hard to miss taking over cities we all used to love and feel inspired by. I don't think Florida is as worried about it as I am...

Last weekend we noted in, post about the galloping inequality inherent in urbanization that Richard Florida was warning that "Young, affluent, highly educated people have flowed back to downtown cores in cities like London, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver. Good jobs, better restaurants, higher tax revenues and even high-tech startups have followed.

Last week, urbanologist Richard Florida did a post ostensibly about Vancouver, but completely relevant to all the great cities of the West. As he said, "Young, affluent, highly educated people have flowed back to downtown cores in cities like London, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver.

A NY Times editorial last night was entitled President Bannon and just blasted Trump's top advisor, neo-Nazi Steve Bannon.

Deceitful, dissimulating Republicans, led by Paul Ryan ("this is not a religious test and it is not a ban on people of any religion") are insisting that we're not really seeing the Muslim ban that we see unfolding at America's airports, but egomaniac, Rudy "Loose-lips" Giuliani admitted to a Fox News "judge" that Trump had tasked him with coming up with a way to ban Muslims "legally" and that the nationality ploy was the result. In the first day of implementation 4 federal judges struck it down as unconstitutional.

Last night-- late last night-- the Senate began the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act by approving, 51-48, a budget blueprint that would allow them-- using a tactic called "reconciliation"-- to gut the

A lot has been made about how Hillary and other Democrats have failed to address the needs of rural America and have failed electorally in rural areas. Democratic policy for rural America is actually far better than Republican policy but that isn’t where Democrats have failed.

Trump has always made a big deal about how brilliant he is— high IQ, great college education, “all the best words,” etc— but in reality, he has a very average IQ, higher than his supporters, of course, but probably the lowest of any legitimate American president.