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3 weeks ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
President Trump, top MAGA influencers, and the modern American right’s full embrace of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his authoritarian brand of conservatism were on full display at two international CPAC meetings held last week in Poland and Hungary.
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1 month ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
The publication last week of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover Up and his Disastrous Choice of to Run Again,’’ and the accompanying high profile media appearances by its authors, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, has squarely returned Mr. Biden’s ill-advised decision to seek another term in office back to the center of the public conversation.
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1 month ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
At the edges—in his first term— President Trump violated the spirit of the Constitution’s emoluments clause and personally benefited in other ways. His Washington, DC hotel became a way for foreign governments to curry favor through hosting events and extended stays by officials. Mr. Trump also charged the federal government outrageous room rates for his Secret Service contingent when staying at his properties.
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1 month ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
With President Trump apparently committed to doing everything within his power to heat up the planet, reversing federal climate policies that were spurring progress, governors and mayors, as well as businesses, are once again stepping into the void. In his second go-round, the president seems even more determined than in his first term to put roadblocks in the way of non-carbon-producing renewable energy.
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1 month ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
The shift from the post-World War II mass media structure, in which broadcast television news and daily newspapers were dominant, to today’s fragmented niche media structure, one that is increasingly digital, continues to accelerate.
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2 months ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
As we mark the 100th day of President Trump’s new term, Americans don’t like what they have seen so far. At an approval rating of only 41%, according to the average of seven national polls timed to measure public opinion after the new administration’s first 100 days, he is the most unpopular president at this point in his term in the history of modern polling; the president is exceeding his previous unpopularity record, set at the 100-day mark in his first term.
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2 months ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
Admirably choosing to fight back against President Trump’s unprecedented and unconstitutional attack on academic freedom-- rather than bend the knee –Harvard University last week said no to a list of absurd administration demands that, taken together, would surrender the private university’s independence to the arbitrary and ideologically-driven dictates of the federal government.
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2 months ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
Continuing to bulldoze his way through the post-Watergate norms and procedures designed to keep the president’s “personal and political interests” from unduly influencing decisions on individual criminal and civil matters, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first term on Friday. He did so without offering a better reason than they said and did things he didn’t like.
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2 months ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
President Trump unveiled his sweeping, disastrous tariffs this past Wednesday with the same dishonest, flim-flammery that he used to bamboozle people into signing up for Trump University: a chart with phony numbers based on trade deficits--not the tariffs that other nations' put on our exports --and a made-up tariff history that would earn him an F in a high school history class.
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2 months ago | 
golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” famously said HL Mencken. That is apparently the view of President Trump and his national security team as they shamelessly serve up a shifting series of nonsensical and blatantly false claims, attempting to minimize, shift the blame, and explain away the serious security breach, resulting from discussing upcoming military action as well as specific attack plans during a Signal chat on their cell phones.
