Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I hereby pledge anew that this will be my last commentary on this presidential horse race (i.e., on how candidates fared in latest caucus or primary), until Republicans and Democrats choose their respective nominees this summer. (“New Hampshire Primary Proved One-Third of Republicans Are Gullible Fools,” February 12, 2016) I honored my pledge. And I did so with… Read more.
I would like nothing more than to see Bernie do to Hillary in 2016 what Barack did to her in 2008. (“Bernie Sanders: The Democrats’ Ron Paul…?” The iPINIONS Journal, July 2, 2015) In fact, I was feeling the Bern long before Millennials — who are now fueling Bernie Sanders’s campaign — even knew his name. But, like… Read more.
No. But, if they can, they should … in the public interest. One of the constants of modern elections is that presidential candidates have released their recent tax returns… But Donald Trump has told the Associated Press that he does not expect to release his tax returns before the election… If he’s Honest Donald, he’ll… Read more.
These days, news anchormen serve as little more than hosts of reality TV shows masquerading as news programs. Their programming mantra – “if it bleeds, it leads” – used to reflect reporting on an increasingly violent society. Now it reflects reporting on anything that outrages, scares, or titillates – just to generate ratings. Which, of… Read more.
The leading Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, spent most of last week hurling schoolyard insults at each other, all in a vainglorious attempt to defend the honor of their wives, respectively. This latest farce, in a series that has characterized the race for the Republican nomination, stemmed from an anti-Trump ad featuring… Read more.
Frankly, that name now conjures up such racial and religious bigotry, to say nothing of neo-Nazi thuggery, it should make you want to spit too. But more about that later…. Since launching his campaign last summer, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been spewing anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim rhetoric in a manner that seems pathological. Commentators… Read more.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a black-swan phenomenon. Nothing demonstrates this quite like so many commentators having egg on their faces for mistakenly predicting its demise. The only reason I don’t is that I have never underestimated the ignorance or gullibility of large segments of the American people. Such commentaries as “On Syria (and almost… Read more.
Listening to Republicans swoon over his leadership, you could be forgiven for thinking they wish Putin were president of the United States. Granted, this swooning probably reflects their partisan/racial hatred of Obama more than their love of Putin. But there’s no denying a totalitarian ideation that makes far too many Republicans swoon over cocksure leaders who… Read more.
Exactly! His letter makes no sense. I am on record hailing Russell Simmons for his political activism in such commentaries as “Black Political Leadership in America Is Dead! Thank God for Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons,” April 26, 2005. Notably, his activism includes chairing The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, whose “sole mission is to fight bigotry… Read more.
As the media hyped so cravingly, it was all about Donald Trump. Which is why nothing any of the other ten candidates said during this debate will have much, if any, lasting impact. I feel obliged to note, however, that U.S. presidential debates have always been more spectacle than substance. For example, the first televised… Read more.
