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    Trump Private Sector Meddling Veers Into Russian Style Government Paternalism

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump is signaling that he intends to lord over the private sector with a heavy-handed Russian-style paternalism that will reward, or punish, corporations based on the degree they support his broader political objectives. Far from freeing the private sector from government shackles, the new Trump administration appears intent on meddling, at will, with business decisions that once were the reserve of corporate executives and their boards...
    BUSINESS
    A voter casts a ballot in the key swing state of Ohio. (Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images)

    Donald Trump’s Darkest Election Legacy May Be Lasting Distrust of Voting Process

    David Fagin and Keith Girard
    Donald Trump’s claims about a “rigged election” may be one of the darkest legacies of his presidential campaign. When citizens, by and large, can not trust the voting process by which leaders are elected, the very foundation of our democracy is threatened with collapse. Trump’s vote fraud claims, which continue to roil two weeks after the election, are a case study in the dangers of irresponsible campaign rhetoric....
    ELECTIONSPOLITICSWHITE HOUSE

    With Donald Trump Tax Breaks, Corporate CEOs Plan to Line Their Own Pockets

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump is planning a massive corporate tax cut that he says will create new jobs and prompt companies to repatriate more than $1 trillion stashed overseas. But a new study predicts that CEO’s will choose to line their own pockets instead through massive stock buybacks. Corporations have been sitting on record amounts of cash for years and the pile is only going to get bigger. ...
    BUSINESSWHITE HOUSE

    Donald Trump Plans to Override State Laws Barring Concealed Carry Weapons

    Keith Girard
    President-elect Donald Trump is about to make the nation as a whole more like Louisiana, where lax state gun laws, allowing teenagers to carry concealed weapons, has led to the highest murder rate in the nation. Mitch Landreiu, the exasperated Mayor of New Orleans, has called his city “out of control” after the latest shootout turned historic Bourbon Street into the OK Corral....
    NATIONALWHITE HOUSE

    Why Jill Stein’s Recount Matters; Donald Trump Has No One to Blame But Himself

    Keith Girard
    Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate who probably cost Hillary Clinton the election, is now trying to redeem herself by organizing recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Donald Trump is protesting, naturally, but he has no one to blame but himself. Trump is the projected winner in all three states, although Michigan’s final tally is still out. Clinton needs to overturn the results in all three states to win the Electoral College, which votes for president on Dec. 19....
    ELECTIONS

    Trump Rips Lid Off School Voucher Debate With New Education Secretary Nominee

    Keith Girard
    President-elect Donald Trump has opened a political can of worms with his selection of billionaire businesswoman Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. It potentially will inject the federal government more deeply than ever in public school systems. DeVos, who now chairs the Windquest Group, a private investment firm, has never spent a day much less a career teaching in the nation’s public schools....
    AGENCIES

    Donald Trump Faces First Foreign Policy Test Over Vow to ‘Rip Up’ Iran Nuke Deal

    Keith Girard
    Donald Trump, who accused rival Hillary Clinton of being the “war candidate” may find himself up to his neck in a military confrontation with Iran, if he moves ahead with a campaign promise to “rip-up” President Obama’s historic nuclear accord with the Islamic regime. The U.S. House last week, in a get-tough move in step with Trump’s campaign rhetoric, approved the Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, for another 10 years....
    WORLD