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Pence projecting disappointment Vice President Mike Pence says Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives. ‘Look, we have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States,’ [Vice President Mike] Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Wednesday. ‘But Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen President Trump all over TV raising Chicken-Little concerns about mail-in ballots. He would have you believe they will cause enough fraud, chaos, and confusion to render November’s presidential election null and void. Except that he betrays the fatuousness of his concerns by claiming that mail-in ballots will work just fine in… Read more.
The recent history of this “Paris of the Middle East” has been marked by sectarian battles and foreign invasions, which has seen Beirut continually bombed to smithereens. But this is so tragic, it almost seems karmic: A large blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed at least 70 people and injured more than 4,000… Read more.
And no, this is not just wishful thinking. Here’s why: Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump’s accountants must release his tax returns to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. I joined the whole world in hailing its landmark ruling in “Supreme Court Rules NY Prosecutor Can Get Trump’s Tax Returns, but Congress… Read more.
Trust me, I harbor no illusions about the impact of my commentaries. Hell, even family members can’t be bothered to stop tweeting or TikToking long enough to read them. And, even if President Trump succeeds in banning their TikTok app, I’m sure they will find another diversion (like scrolling videos of laughing babies or talking… Read more.
As you read this commentary, bear the following in mind: We are only in the second month of a five-month hurricane season. Forecasters with the National Weather Service predict it will be above normal – with 3 to 6 major hurricanes, a la Dorian. Although devastating, Isaias is not a major hurricane. It is merely… Read more.
How does Trump outrage me? Too many ways to count. As today’s title suggests, however, I am always more outraged by people who support and enable Trump than by the dotard himself. Unfortunately, this has made me something of a Debbie Downer among family and friends. Because I’m often reminding those laughing at Trump that… Read more.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a Black commentator who criticized late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms of the early 2000s more than I did. However, the backlash from other Black commentators was such that, if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was betraying my race. Meanwhile, it was plain for all to… Read more.
Last year, Instagram executives flirted with the idea of weaning narcissistic users off addiction to likes. They failed – as I duly predicted they would in “Testing Social Networks Without ‘Likes’ … Because a ‘Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste’,” September 26, 2019: The CEO of every social network already knows that taking away… Read more.
Arguably, protests in Russia are like snowballs in Hell. This is why I’ve written so many commentaries over the years hailing democratic rebels with a lost cause. For example, I refer you to “Putinization: President Putin Reforming Russia in His Own Image,” March 25, 2005 “Vladimir Putin Sends Political Dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky Off to the… Read more.
