Steven Arnold King has a knack for saying the wrong things.The eight-term Republican congressman from Western Iowa is in hot water again.Steve King creepily thinks that rape and incest are somehow keys to life on planet Earth.That statement requires further exploration.I鈥檒l do my best to ...
The other day this newspaper printed next year鈥檚 Pirate schedule. I liked that. I looked up opening day and saw that the season ends several days before October begins. The Bucs play Boston at home in 2020, July 3, 4, and 5. They play the Dodgers twice, both times in April. How odd.I like ...
Last Wednesday, President Trump took his second trip to El Paso, Texas, this year.His second visit wasn鈥檛 as well-received as his first.In February, he held one of those traveling show/rallies in El Paso, when he spent much of his time denigrating Mexican immigrants.He fearmongered about ...
Too bad for Democrats that Bill de Blasio is mayor of New York City, and not the mayor of a city in a state narrowly carried by Donald Trump in 2016 - the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, say; or Ann Arbor, Michigan; or even Pittsburgh.As the Democrats鈥� vice presidential nominee in 2020, imagine ...
Donald Trump is chomping at the bit.There鈥檝e been four nights of Democratic debates, but he hasn鈥檛 figured out a way to jump on stage with the candidates to proclaim they鈥檙e all going to hell.Instead, he rage-tweets between debate nights, in hopes he can command news cycles with his ...
From time to time you hear people say that things were better back in the day; folks were more caring, more polite, they were kinder and gentler.Recently, I sat across a dinner table from a prominent local politician 鈥� we were attending the same banquet 鈥� when he brought up the subject of ...