Robert Mercer

The other day I suggested that there’s nothing left for Bannon on the public stage other than as a witness for the prosecution in the various Putin-Gate investigations and trials.

Mercer and his dogCambridge Analytica was founded in 2013, specifically to participate in U.S. elections, though it is a subsidiary of a British company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, famous for military disinformation campaigns and for fomenting coups.

Didn't Iggy Pop have a totally awesome song for this?The Mercers have hired Steve Bannon to run it for them, but the GOP civil war tearing the Republican Parry to shreds could never happen without the profligate spending of two of America's most odious characters, Robert Mercer, the fascist fathe

Bannon Unleashed by Nancy OhanianAlabama isn't the U.S. In fact, Alabama is barely part of the U.S. A month after the election of one of America's greatest presidents, Alabama had embarked on the road to secession. In December 1860, Stephen Hale, Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky, wrote to the Kentucky governor bitching about blacks.

Want to know some senators who are really not into the Trump agenda? Just check out the official Trumpanzee adhesion scale. These are the ones who really don't agree with almost anything he's attempting to do:

JP Sottile of http://newsvandal.com/ joins me in the first hour to discuss the next phase of the political soap opera that is Trump’s presidency. We focus on a recent article JP wrote examining the alt-right and the fantasy world they continue to live in. JP gives us his analysis of Steve Bannon’s exit from the White House and back to Breitbart. We talk about how Bannon is still very much in control of Trump’s talking points and the trajectory of his policies and ideology.

I got stuck in some kind of a traffic jam in the Valley yesterday. The freeway just stopped. It wasn't moving slowly; it wasn't moving at all. And it was humid and around 90 degrees and I hate A/C. The one redeeming part of this little adventure was that Terry Gross had Joshua Green as her guest on Fresh Air and I could concentrate on that.

Two faces of evil-- pure evil threatening planet earthThe State University of New York at Stony Brook, my alma mater, proposed having a dinner honoring me and one of their major donors, someone who didn't go to the school but who lived a stone's throw from the Long Island campus. I recognized the name. At the time he was the single biggest contributor to Ted Cruz's presidential campaign-- far right crackpot and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer.

It Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself. Where do we go from here? Data has become the tail that wags the dog; and we are pets, not free individuals in this configuration. And...

The New Face of the Plutocracy By Will Banyan (Copyright © 12 April 2017)  “A newspaper criticized me and said, ‘Why can’t they have people of modest means?’ Because I want people that made a...