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The big ‘red wave’ that wasn鈥檛

The battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives is on.It鈥檚 nasty, and about to get much nastier in the coming months.Democrats haven鈥檛 controlled that chamber since 2010.They鈥檙e hopeful that will change after November鈥檚 midterm elections.If they manage to flip two dozen ...

Truth takes a holiday

When President Trump travels to one of his campaign speeches, he leaves the truth behind.I鈥檇 say he travels light, but he makes sure he takes a satchel-full of attacks, hyperbole, half-truths and downright blarney -- to the delight of his ecstatic crowds.鈥淭hey just came out with a poll, did ...

Trump and the Ministry of Truth

On January 21st, 2017, the first full day of the Trump presidency, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told a big whopper.鈥淭hat was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,鈥 Spicer proclaimed.There was ample visual evidence that Spicer鈥檚 claim was false.There are ...

All the world鈥檚 a stage

Whenever President Trump steps onto the world stage, he always feels compelled to give a performance.In the end, he takes his bows, even when hardly anybody applauds him.ACT I: When he flew to Brussels, he played Count Dracula.He sucked the lifeblood right out of that NATO summit.He launched ...

Trump鈥檚 uncivil defense

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a point.Last Monday, she stepped to the podium during a White House briefing and she was rightfully upset, because she鈥檇 been asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.The owner of the Red Hen restaurant polled her ...

So the tough guy blinks….

President Trump still wants to build a wall.Instead, he ran head first into a wall built on the collective outrage of people who had enough of him using children snatched from their parent鈥檚 arms, as a cheesy political maneuver.Splat!In the end, Trump, the tough guy, blinked; caved; ...