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Paul Jay Hi, I’m Paul Jay, welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. Please don’t forget we’re near the end of the year and there’s a matching grant campaign going on. Every dollar you donate gets matched, if you get a monthly that gets matched times 12, if you raise your existing monthly that gets matched, just go to the website theAnalysis.news and you’ll get all the details. President Trump seems to be in his death throes, flailing around, searching for a last-minute reprieve from retur...

Hanwha Solutions acquires US hydrogen tank maker | Hanwha Corp. (Yonhap) Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean energy solutions company, said Monday it has signed a deal to acquire US hydrogen tank firm Cimarron Composites LLC as part of a diversification strategy. Hanwha Solutions plans to complete the process to take over an entire stake in the US industrial tank equipment maker by April, the company said in a statement. "The company will invest $100 million, including the acquisition capi...

When newly elected Congressman Steve Kuykendall arrived in Washington, D.C. in January 1999, the Palos Verdes Republican made a point of visiting Tom DeLay as soon as possible. DeLay, a Republican from the Houston area then entering his eighth term in the House of Representatives, had served as the majority whip since 1995. In a legislature, the whip is responsible for ensuring that party members fall in line for upcoming votes. For those on the fence, DeLay would threaten to support primary ch...

THE CAPITALS CHOKE – AGAIN! — “For Caps, just another ‘bad bounce’ for a pantheon filling up fast with them,” by Barry Svrluga in Pittsburgh: “It’s a terrible state of existence when every odd bounce that works against you has to be woven into the tapestry as part of some generations-long drama — and a depressing one at that. But it is the very existence of the Washington Capitals, and who knows when — or if — that will change. Welcome, then, Dmitry Orlov and his right ska...

A partial and continually updated glossary of Josh Marshallisms (or, more broadly, TPMisms).     appreciate the congrats: What you say when you’ve done something really awesome. An homage to Trump’s memorable response to the Pulse nightclub shooting: “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!” the Aqua-Duke: The boat on which Randy “Duke” Cunningham lived, owned by defense contract...

Walt Kelly would have been 97 years old today, if he were still alive. Sadly he’s not, and we need him more than ever. I grew up reading Pogo, and it informed my political consciousness as much as anything else that was going on in the 1960s. Kelly was actually just as important in the 1950s, though, when he was one of the first to go after Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy–he risked a lot, which makes him a hero. As it turned out, he risked a lot during the 1960s and early 1970s as well, espe...

 | Updated December 10, 2020 Hundreds of elected and appointed Republicans around the country are backing President Donald Trump’s false claims he won the 2020 presidential election, a widespread embrace that is likely to empower Trump’s grip over the GOP even after he leaves office and turn belief in Trump’s falsehoods into a litmus test for a significant segment of Republican voters. The Republicans embracing Trump’s cause, and the nonsensical conspiracy theories used to justify it,...

>> -- lost his job as speaker. >> shouldering the blame. >> impeachment is a two-edged sword. you may choose to use it against your enemy. but it may hurt you even more politically. >> president clinton was thrilled, thinking he was in the clear. but house majority whip tom delay was hell-bent on impeaching him, anyway. >> we have witnessed history. >> the house impeached bill clinton almost entirely along party lines. >> the president resigned and his legacy will forever be scarred today. >> in...

>> -- lost his job as speaker. >> shouldering the blame. >> impeachment is a two-edged sword. you may choose to use it against your enemy. but it may hurt you even more politically. >> president clinton was thrilled, thinking he was in the clear. but house majority whip tom delay was hell-bent on impeaching him, anyway. >> we have witnessed history. >> the house impeached bill clinton almost entirely along party lines. >> the president resigned and his legacy will forever be scarred today. >> in...