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Kanye is a ‘slave name’? Not since Sean Combs, A.K.A. Puff Daddy, morphed into P Diddy has a name change spawned so much derision. However, this time, the mockery is laced with pity, even sadness. Kanye West’s chief of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, demanded in a letter that the rapper be referred to as Ye and not… Read more.
The Gaetz playbook: vacate the Speaker Matt Gaetz ran for Congress to become a household name. But he soon discovered that authoring legislation or performing oversight was not getting him the media attention he coveted. So, he decided that leading a band of congressional mutineers to vacate Speaker Kevin McCarthy might do the trick. It worked. That mutiny made Gaetz the… Read more.
Surely only that explains Israel defying pleas, even from the United States, to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. And, frankly, it doesn’t give a damn about the damning historical symmetry afoot. Read more.
Selling love Selling the love notes of a famous lover has about as much socially redeeming value as revenge porn. I’m no prude. I know full well that people have been selling sex since time immemorial. Doing so is and always has been an honorable profession. But selling love is a different matter. And there’s nothing honorable… Read more.
Federal law vs. Texas law The federal government has exclusive authority to enforce immigration law. That’s because federal law takes precedence over state law. This precedence stems from the Supremacy Clause, a bedrock principle of the US Constitution. That’s why Texas petitioning the Supreme Court for the right to enforce its own immigration seemed so farfetched. It made… Read more.
‘King Charles’ Charles Barkley is both informative and entertaining when discussing basketball. Clearly, CNN assumed he’d be equally so when debating politics and social issues. Spoiler alert: CNN couldn’t have been more wrong. I’ve watched several episodes of his show, King Charles. Suffice it to know that it came across as the most cringeworthy attempt by a sports star to host… Read more.
This picture is worth a million words The real controversy in this photo isn’t Kate’s amateur Photoshop job. It’s the glaring absence of her wedding ring. After all, rumors abound that she’s recovering from a broken heart, not abdominal surgery. Here’s why: Kensington Palace ‘pulled out all the stops’ to quash a rumor that Prince William cheated… Read more.
Russia using North Korea’s nuclear playbook Russia and North Korea are the only two nuclear powers whose leaders continually boast about using nukes. That is no coincidence. Russia and North Korea are also the two poorest and most sanctioned among the nine nuclear powers. Both leverage nuclear weapons to compensate for everything from diplomatic isolation to economic stagnation. North… Read more.
Britt’s opening act about sex trafficking Republican Sen. Katie Britt gained infamy on Thursday with her State of the Union rebuttal. Her faux outrage—over a child trafficking story that was riddled with lies—was bad enough. But her melodramatic, overblown delivery was more akin to a teaser for an upcoming SNL skit. True to form, SNL obliged with its usual… Read more.
