They tell us that Donald Trump is turning over a new leaf.That since he’s well on the road to his nomination, he’s going to mix a little Dr. Jekyll with his Mr. Hyde.He’s hired some skilled campaign vets to help him temper his, well, his temper, so that he can show that he can become more ...
I thought that I knew all there was to know about Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson until last week.Thanks to Ken Burns’ comprehensive portrait of the man during his two-part, four hour PBS series, simply titled “Jackie Robinson,” I realized how complex his life story had been.I’d ...
The cover story in this month’s edition of Harper’s Magazine reveals a damning bit of American history.That aside from that scallywag Richard Nixon having made attempts to circumvent the whole U.S. Constitution, he left an even darker legacy.The article’s writer, Dan Baum, highlighted a ...
The world’s pre-eminent political mischief-maker, Donald J. Trump, has labeled his closest competitor “Lyin’ Ted.”By doing that, Trump is willfully engaging in what they call “projection.”He knows that fact-checkers have called into question many of his proclamations, so why not ...
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump had a good day last Tuesday.Not just because they each won primary elections.But predictably, they both used the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels to convince America that they know how to easily prevent those kinds of things.They each have Superman complexes. But ...
Last Thursday marked a momentous occasion.It was the second anniversary of something the Republican National Committee called the “Growth and Opportunity Project.”I don’t know if you celebrated the event.I did.The Growth and Opportunity Project was a 100-plus page report that tried to ...