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Opposition research work product, whether hired by the campaign or donated to the campaign by the entity in question, is an item of value. If purchased, the campaign treasurer would list it on the campaign finance report as a purchased service. If donated, the treasurer would list it as a...

Based on my reading of previous FEC rulings, I believe otherwise. But, as before when such things come up, I don't want to argue the points here. I'm content to let the experts do their thing and wait for the courts or administrative bodies make their rulings. You may be right about this, and I...

Nothing in the information released to date suggests this is anything more than a civil matter (not a criminal matter). The penalty for violating the election laws in question would be a fine in an amount that is less than pocket change to the Trump campaign and the wealthy people involved...

A significant aspect of the Trump Jr-released email chain is the fact that it was released by Trump Jr. himself. This is not a leak. It is not an unnamed source. It is not fake news. This is hard-copy, documented evidence made public by the president's eldest son and a top official in the Trump...

On further reflection and reading, it may well mean something. At issue is not the content of the material the Russian attorney brought to the meeting, it's what the campaign leaders thought they might receive and the eagerness they exhibited for it. My prior political activity was at the state...

Maybe you're right. Maybe Donald Trump has already made America great again. Or maybe the 2016 election was unnecessary since nothing was broken before.

A raise in wages reduces profits if the raise cannot be offset with price increases. That's why you see kiosks replacing employees in fast food restaurants where minimum wage rates have been hiked. Where there are no profits to be made, there are no profits to tax. Yes, an employer can write off...

People who are smart with money do not leave it sitting around. Unless it is literally tucked in a mattress or sitting on a shelf somewhere, money is dynamic. Money deposited in a bank or money market fund goes immediately to work as the institution that holds the deposit deploys it for the...

So today, we have yet another "smoking gun" that "proves" Trump collusion with the Russian government in influencing the 2016 election. Once again the anti-Trump reporters and commentators are straining credulity with their unsubstantiated and illogical leaps to their conclusions. As I hear the...

"Rich" is a relative term and I do not consider Diane and me rich. That said, we tend to save the money we make. Once saved, we look around for a place to invest it. One such place is our gym, which is a for-profit business that creates jobs and pays employees who spend that money. If you cut...

Do you really believe this? When a rich person buys a six bedroom house and fills the six car garage with six premium rides, is that not spending too? When a rich person hires a contractor to build a retail business and hires employees to run it, does that not help the economy? What do you...

It's both. The individual citizen rises to the responsibility and registers to vote. The "village," or county in my case, operates a registration system and keeps records that are fair and accurate for all concerned. The state establishes laws that affect how, when and where a citizen may vote...

I do not believe the commission is a make-work dog-and-pony show. I believe it is yet another attempt that is frequently seen in certain sectors of the Republican party to discourage people from voting. I don't mean discouraging illegal voting (which should be discouraged). I mean discouraging...

I'd be interested in seeing charts showing news network ratings over an extended period of time, like 10 or 20 years. That would enable us to see the changes of a network compared to itself and to others over time. I'm not invested in one network "winning" over another or in Trump being right or...

“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” I alone can fix it. I will restore law and order. "I'd...

More thoughts about the selling insurance across state lines. Say a company in KY sells a health insurance policy to a citizen in FL. Then say that a claim is made but the company denies the claim on unjust grounds. FL insurance regulators won't act because it's a KY company. KY regulators...

It's not expectations, it's the man's integrity I'm thinking about when I point out the difference between his words and actions. On the campaign trail and subsequently, he does not say he and congress will get it done, he says he will get it done. When he does not get it done, that's an...

I think I understand people's point when they say allow insurance companies to sell across state lines. It has something to do with competition and free markets, right? But if that was true, would insurance not differ now between big and small states? In Florida, we have a population of 20...

Trump has said many things about healthcare, including: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in press conference Jan. 11. “We’re going to have a healthcare that is far less expensive and far better.” Or, as he said in a September 2015 “60 Minutes” interview, “I am going...

In the case of healthcare, Trump is following the legislative process but what he is doing is unrecognizable when compared to what he promised he would do. Did he not know the legislative process existed when he made these promises? "The president promised the American public, “We’re going to...