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AIPAC of wild animals, strike without warning and more bankrupt stores + this day in history w/TV Martí and our song of the day by Monster Movie on your Morning Monarchy for March 27, 2017.

Merger minds, ticket schemes and magazine time + this day in history w/Iran options and our song of the day by London Grammar on your Morning Monarchy for February 3, 2017.

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Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross talks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor considered the “king of bankruptcy” for buying beaten-down companies with the potential to deliver profits, is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump’s senior economic team as commerce secretary.

Early Thursday morning Trump was tweeting. "Crooked Hillary Clinton will be a disaster on jobs, the economy, trade, healthcare, the military, guns and just about all else. Obama plus!" Something tells me he's just stoking the lizard-brains of the Trumpist base, not seriously thinking he can win over any new converts to his cause.

Smombies, jingles and digital whistleblowing + this day in history w/the LA riots and our song of the day by the Jayhawks on your Morning Monarchy for April 29, 2016.

Wolf Creek water, medicinal foods and Inky escape + this day in history w/MKUltra and our song of the day by Margo Price on your Morning Monarchy for April 13, 2016.

A few years ago I read Elizabeth Warren's book, A Fighting Chance and I remember being very impressed with a story about how then First Lady Hillary Clinton had single-handedly turned around the Administration on a toxic brankuptcy bill and persuaded her husband to veto it at the very end of 2000. It actually made me feel good about Hillary. But, it turns out, I didn't actually have the full story.

Student debt burden as of March 2015 (source)by Gaius PubliusAs many readers know, I'm watching the Biden phenomenon (the "Biden bulge" in media attention) with interest.

Sunday morning, Nevada's most respected political commentator, Jon Ralston, writing for the Reno Gazette-Journal, pointed out what anyone watching the political circus unfolding in the Republican battle over the 2016 presidential nomination already feels in their gut, namely that Trump's domination of the polls is a consequence, as well as proof, that American-- or at least right-wing--