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Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, here is how I declared the Taliban (and their al-Qaeda hired guns) the winner on 9/11 … 10 years ago: If… Read more.
I’ve been waging a quixotic campaign for years to out Rupert Murdoch as a greater danger to democracy than Donald Trump. Here, for example is what I wrote in this respect in “Political Ads: Twitter, Facebook, Fox News: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. And Then There’s Google,” November 6, 2019: __________ Rupert Murdoch… Read more.
[Note: This commentary was originally scheduled for publication early on Friday, October 2. But then interposed the “breaking news” that President Trump and first lady Melania had tested positive for Covid-19, and all hell broke loose. Still, talk about picking your poison. Ha!] ********** Donald J. Trump set the whole world atwitter in 2015, when… Read more.
Granted, I have a well-documented penchant for cynicism. Therefore, you’d be forgiven for dismissing my title as me just being my cynical self. But I need only cite two unassailable facts to prove the truth it asserts: The October surprise in 2012 was that Mitt Romney defeated Barack Obama in at least two of their… Read more.
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.
Cohen free to unleash on Trump Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. … [Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from… Read more.
At the end of my July 8 preview, I noted that I would be crestfallen if the first week of sales of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump did not double those of The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton. Well, I… Read more.
As a reminder, here is how I previewed this highly anticipated book in a commentary on June 18: His niece has written a family exposé that promises to make Mommie Dearest look like a lullaby. The book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump,… Read more.
On March 18, President Trump declared America at war against Covid-19. More to the point, he took great pride in hailing himself a “wartime president.” Except that, Trump has been so incompetent on this front, Joe Biden, his Democratic challenger for the November presidential election, has had just cause to repeatedly dismiss him as follows:… Read more.
In other words, there’s no need for BLM protesters to turn into lynch mobs, especially just to exact vigilante justice on Confederate monuments. It is self-evident that President Trump is fighting yet another losing battle. For reasons that can make sense only to the white racists he panders to, he’s trying to protect and preserve… Read more.
