The world鈥檚 pre-eminent political mischief-maker, Donald J. Trump, has labeled his closest competitor 鈥淟yin鈥� Ted.鈥滲y doing that, Trump is willfully engaging in what they call 鈥減rojection.鈥滺e knows that fact-checkers have called into question many of his proclamations, so why not ...
It鈥檚 still early in the political year 鈥� yea, early 鈥� but one thing seems certain: after the final votes are counted in November and a new president sworn into office in January, the country will demand that something real be done to reverse the decades-long trend of stagnant ...
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 ...
To show you how times have changed: once upon a time the federal government was considered the very heart and soul of the country. An attack on it was considered an attack on American democracy itself.How many people think that is the case today? Not as many as in 1861, I鈥檒l bet.Let me ...
Last Thursday marked a momentous occasion.It was the second anniversary of something the Republican National Committee called the 鈥淕rowth and Opportunity Project.鈥滻 don鈥檛 know if you celebrated the event.I did.The Growth and Opportunity Project was a 100-plus page report that tried to ...
Thousand of protesters descended on the candidate as he spoke. 鈥淪hame, shame, shame, shame,鈥� they shrieked. Then 鈥渟ellout, sellout, sellout, sellout鈥� after which they deployed more explicit language 鈥� the kind of language that鈥檚 not normally heard or uttered in a campaign for ...