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 ...
The more I see Donald Trump, the less I like him.His rambling 鈥渧ictory speech鈥� after winning primary elections in Mississippi and Michigan last Tuesday proved he is not only unfit for the presidency, but a self-important snake oil salesman.While, for most presidential candidates, wins in ...
Political issues come, political issues go. What鈥檚 controversial one moment can, in a flash, become the most banal thing imaginable.Take daylight savings time. Yep, daylight savings time!Once upon a time DST shared the political spotlight with world peace 鈥� debated, dissected, and discussed ...
Republicans everywhere are in a tizzy.Party leaders are showing increasing dismay at the prospects of a Donald Trump nomination.It鈥檚 their own fault.When Trump failed to give a full-throated repudiation of the support he鈥檚 getting from ex-Ku Klux Klansman, and virulent racist, David Duke, ...
You can place the blame for Donald Trump on Dick Scaife. Not entirely, course. Scaife, the late publisher of the Tribune-Review, had plenty of help from fellow billionaires like the Koch brothers.Collectively, over the years, they nurtured an anti-government crusade that has now led to the ...