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Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
Like me, you probably have family, friends, and colleagues who try to impress by regurgitating a point they heard some talking head make on TV. I never fail to give them an attentive ear. I even humor them with a question or two. Because they never seem interested in debating the point; and, at the… Read more.
The media covered the 2016 US presidential election as if it were little more than a challenge on Donald Trump’s reality TV show, The Apprentice. This, because they realized from the moment Trump descended the escalators in his gilded tower to announce his campaign that, when it comes to their bottom line, covering politics as… Read more.
A grifter is as a grifter does. And so Donald J. Trump, the former, twice-impeached president of the United States, is doing this: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company’s… Read more.
Episode 37: History Repeats Itself: From Vietnam to Afghanistan, Trump to Carlson…? Related commentaries: al-Qaeda obits…snatching defeat… failure in Afghanistan is likely… Obama saluting… Pentagon report… WikiLeaks… how many more must die… aping “stupid” Obama… Listen.
Occasionally I have cause to reprise a commentary in full with relatively little explanation. This is one of those occasions. It stems from the following headline in the June 3 edition of The Independent: Trump condos going for bargain prices because no one wants to live in them More to the point, that report includes… Read more.
Frankly, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy) is showing the kind of profile in courage not seen among Republican leaders since John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. No doubt you recall how he famously alienated “the base” by refusing to propagate base lies about Barack Obama being a Muslim socialist hell-bent on destroying the country. But it appears… Read more.
In previous elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast Arab voters as a peril, warning they were ‘heading to the polling stations in droves.’ He threatened two years ago to mount cameras at the polls in Arab communities — a move critics said was meant to suppress turnout — and he has disparaged elected Arab… Read more.
Donald Trump is the first politician in US history to convince the vast majority of a major political party that he can do no wrong. Even worse, he has convinced the few members who routinely condemn him for doing wrong that he should never be punished for doing so. That is idol worship truly worthy… Read more.
The second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump begins on Tuesday, about a month after he was charged by the House with incitement of insurrection for his role in egging on a violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. (The New York Times, February 9, 2021) Granted, the verdict is as… Read more.
