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Putin threatened “escalation” if US-supplied weapons enabled Ukraine to kill any of his invading Russians. More ominously, he warned he would use all means at his disposal if Ukraine even threatened Russia’s territorial integrity, implying a willingness to use nuclear weapons. He insisted this was a red line, claiming “it’s not a bluff”—as if Russia… Read more.
TV ratings for the RNC and DNC are in. And, if they’re any indication, the presidential election results might not be as close as polls suggest. The DNC’s four-day jamboree for Kamala Harris averaged 21.8 million viewers — 14 percent more than the RNC’s for Donald Trump. A few days ago, I asserted that TV… Read more.
Just imagine the best of LBJ, Reagan, and Obama. Because that will give you a sense of the substance, theme, and style of the speech Kamala delivered to close last night’s DNC. Frankly, it’s a national embarrassment that the RNC nominated “an unserious man” like Trump to challenge her for the presidency. Trump is toast!… Read more.
Donald Trump’s obsession with crowd size is certifiably weird. Yet it is surpassed in its weirdness his obsession with TV ratings. Watching the Democratic National Convention play out this week is only worsening his public nervous breakdown. This breakdown was triggered when Joe Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris. Of course, the Obamas trigger… Read more.
Donald Trump is a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted felon and adjudged rapist. He’s also a pathological liar who incited an insurrection. Yet listen carefully, and you’ll hear MAGA Republicans saying they’re voting for him anyway just to avoid 3% inflation. They blithely overlook his threats to turn American democracy into a Russian-style autocracy, as if that’s… Read more.
The Harris-Walz campaign is riding a wave of rock-star rallies. And this week’s Democratic National Convention is set to play out like a rock concert. That’s why Donald Trump is so green with envy that he’s throwing temper tantrums on live TV. But once early voting starts in September, the Harris-Walz campaign should make banking… Read more.
Elon Musk’s interview with Donald Trump on X last week turned out to be as ill-fated as it was overhyped. It was marred by the same technical glitches that dogged their first interview. And that’s because Musk took foolish pride in gutting his platform of many engineers. But this time, the United Auto Workers union… Read more.
MAGA Republicans are so obsessed with the “feminization” of America that they’re passing laws to control women in every aspect of their lives. Just yesterday, their Republican-controlled Supreme Court upheld laws gutting Title IX provisions that protect women from discrimination in schools. Trump and the White Christian nationalists behind Project 2025 for America believe women… Read more.
In what’s fast becoming a space-age rerun of Gilligan’s Island, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are marooned in orbit. It turns out their Boeing spaceship has more in common with the S.S. Minnow than a reliable spacecraft. This is a friggin’ PR disaster. Technical problems forced NASA to abort this mission at the… Read more.
Trump’s racist and misogynistic attacks against Kamala are only exacerbating the congenital problem he has with women voters. But even that pales in comparison with the problem he has with Black women, particularly four of them: Vice President Kamala Harris, New York AG Letitia James, Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and U.S. District Judge Tanya… Read more.
