Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Trump and Iowa...the real story revealed
Article: "Reflections on Iowa" by Robert B. Hubbell.
Article: "Trump's performance in Iowa is not nearly as good as the media makes it seem" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "CBS News poll finds Trump's national lead grows as GOP nominating contests kick off" by Kabir Khanna, Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus.
Article: "Fox News host Kilmeade defends Trump on 'poisoning the blood of our country' remarks" by Dominick Mastrangelo.
Article: "Two-Thirds of Iowa GOP Caucus Voters Believe the 2020 Election Was Stolen: MSNBC Exit Poll" by Jamie Frevele.
Article: "Don Jr. makes final Iowa caucus pitch for his dad with Kimberly Guilfoyle: Warns of plot to 'SUPPRESS the vote' for Trump, mocks DeSantis for wearing 'high heels' and leaves door open for his OWN run for president in 2028" by Katelyn Caralle.
Article: "Iowa Democrats have a new caucus process. How it will work" by Kendall Ross and Brittany Shepherd.
Article: "Results: The Most Detailed Maps of the Iowa Republican Caucuses" by NYT.
Article: "Portland braces for ice storm Tuesday in final wave of deadly arctic blast" by Brad Schmidt, Nicole Hayden, Jayati Ramakrishnan, Carlos Fuentes.
Article: "A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election" by Peter Baker.
Can Democracy Survive the Morbidly Rich?
Article: "Can Democracy Survive the Morbidly Rich?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Polish lawmakers arrested inside Presidential Palace, as showdown between new and old ruling parties intensifies" by Rob Picheta and Antonia Mortensen.
Article: "Wealthiest Americans pay just 3.4% of income in taxes, investigation reveals" by Lauren Aratani.
Article: "At Davos, conflict, climate change and AI get top billing as leaders converge for elite meeting" by Jamey Keaten.
Article: "Donald Tusk in Lublin: Give me 400 days after the elections. I'll clean it up with an iron broom" by Donald Tusk.
Article: "Tusk pledges bill introducing "legal and safe abortion" in Poland" by Notes from Poland.
Article: "Poll Of Likely 2016 Voters" by Progressive Change Institute, .
Article: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page.
Article: "Poland's 'iron broom' shows that democrats can bite back" by Maciej Kisilowski.
Article: "The 2024 election cycle is going to be very, very expensive" by Kimberly Adams and Richard Cunningham.
Site: OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting.
Article: "Most expensive ever: 2020 election cost $14.4 billion" by Karl Evers-Hillstrom.
Article: "Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in "decade of division," says Oxfam" by Oxfam.
Article: "How are billionaire and corporate power intensifying global inequality?" by Divya Amladi.
Article: "Poland's Donald Tusk wins confidence vote, sets pro-EU path" by Anna Koper.
Article: "Polish president signs 'Tusk Law' on undue Russian influence" by Reuters.
Article: "Data Points: Presidential Campaign Spending" by USNews.
Article: "Somebody just put a price tag on the 2016 election. It's a doozy." by Christopher Ingraham.
Article: "United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Historical Favorability Ratings of Presidents" by Jeffrey M. Jones.
Article: "United States Presidential Election Results" by Britannica.
Article: "The checkered history of Iowa caucus champs" by Steven Shepard.
Article: "2000 Republican Party presidential primaries" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Article: "Brad Raffensperger Is Just Another Republican Vote Suppressor" by Marc Elias.
Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"
Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Article: "Iran hostage rescue mission ends in disaster" by History.com.
Article: "George H. W. Bush" by Wikipedia.
Movie: "Rear Window".
Site: Dr. Bandy Lee.
Article: "Justin A. Frank" by Wikipedia.
Substack: "Mary Trump".
Hour Two: What is the Fiscal Commission Act & what should we care?
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @ssworks
Article: "Social Security Advocacy Group Issues Warning About Trump Presidency" by Newsweek.
Article: "The Great Medicare Advantage Marketing Scam" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.
Article: "White House Calls Proposed GOP Commission a 'Death Panel' for Medicare, Social Security" by Jack Fitzpatrick.
Article: "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" (Bowles-Simpson/Simpson-Bowles) (2010) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Congress agrees on stopgap bill to fund federal government into March" by Guardian.
Article: "Senate Plows Ahead on Government Funding Amid DC Snow Day" by Nolan D. McCaskill.
Article: "Obama drops controversial Social Security proposal" (chained CPI) by Jeanne Sahadi.
Article: "What You Need to Know About 'Chained CPI'" by Sho Chandra.
Article: "Over 100 Organizations Oppose "Fiscal Commission" That Threatens Social Security, As Do Former Greenspan Commission Staff" by Social Security Works.
Site: Young Democrats of Arizona.
Article: "Arizona Right to Abortion Initiative (2024)" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "Arizona State Legislature" by Ballotpedia.
The GOP immigration/border scam revealed
Article: "'Staggering refusal to govern': Mike Johnson sparks fury for tying border fix to Trump win" by David Badash.
Tweet: "JOHNSON says house gop position is hr2. And reiterated he won't take the senate deal." by Jake Sherman.
Movie: "Kill the Messenger".
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Article: "" by .
Article: "Trump gets slapped down by appeals court as defamation trial starts" by Kathleen Culliton.
Article: "Trump loses latest appeal to lift gag order in New York fraud trial" by David Edwards.
Article: "Agitated Trump 'twisting and turning' in seat as potential jurors questioned: report /A>" by Sarah K. Burris.
Bill: "S.3262 - Fiscal Stability Act of 2023" by Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV].
Bill: "H.R.5779 - Fiscal Commission Act of 2023" by Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4].
Article: "Almost half of Haley supporters say they would vote for Biden over Trump: Iowa poll " by Rachel Scully.
Article: "Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician)" by Wikipedia.
Hour Three: Will Gorsuch recuse himself from a SCOTUS case over ties to oil baron?
Article: "Gorsuch urged to recuse himself from supreme court case over ties to oil baron" by Martin Pengelly.
Video: Franklin D Roosevelt: Democratic State Convention, 29 September 1936 'Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation'.
Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford, Neil's Mother: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Chris Bucher.
Case: "Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council".
Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.
Article: "Can fishermen be required to pay for federal monitors? And by the way – should Chevron be overruled?" by John Elwood.
Case: "Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo".
Article: "Neil Gorsuch is Preparing His Revenge: Gutting America's Protective Agencies" by Thom Hartmann.
Video: Franklin D Roosevelt: Democratic State Convention, 29 September 1936 'Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation'.
Has the Siberian Mystery over the tundra craters been solved?
Article: "Siberia's exploding tundra craters mystery may have been solved." by Pakalolo.
Documentary: Last Hours.
Article: "Jason Box" by Wikipedia.
Book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta.
Article: "Insanity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump scores rare legal win as judge cancels trial over his endorsement of multilevel-marketing 'videophone' company" by Jacob Shamsian.
Article: "Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation" by Michael R. Sisak.
Bible: "The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him..." - Revelation 12:9-12.
Article: "E. Jean Carroll defamation case: Trump 'unleashed his followers,' Carroll's attorney says on 1st day of trial" by Peter Charalambous, Aaron Katersky, Emily Shapiro, Olivia Rubin.
Site: Ronald Reagan Legacy Project.
Article: "Methane and climate change" by IEA.
Article: "The 1924 trial of Adolf Hitler that made the Nazi party a household name" by JP O' Malley.
Article: "Long-shot Biden challenger praises Trump White House for outreach" (Dean Phillips) by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.