Clinton’s Bullies
It seemed inevitable. It became so after the DNC email debacle. Clinton's supporters, having won the primary fight, have started getting nasty with those Sanders supporters who feel their candidate got rooked. The latter are irate, and they're showing it. They're...
Cutting Cookies
There's an old bit of folklore, told in various forms, about a man who got a flat tire and pulled over outside the fence of a mental institution. The story relates how, as he started changing the tire, he noticed a man on the other side of the fence staring at him. In...
Criminal Standards –
The fallout from the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as Secretary of State has spilled over into the realm of legal theory. Legal experts, (what would we do without experts?) have opined with a supposed maxim of our...
The King of Zing
Yesterday's episode of the OMG did he really say that!? Donald Trump reality show gave us some useful insights. Not into the man himself, whose snarky carnival barker style is already well-known and fully established, but into the press that covers him. The reports...
“They Hate Our Freedoms”
Thus spoke then-President George W. Bush a week after the 9/11 attacks. He was, of course, referring to the terrorists that perpetrated the attacks and radical Islam in general. This statement, lauded by some and mocked by others, endures, and will always be...
Fools, Saps and Suckers
Much as I think Bernie Sanders' supporters are misguided and naive for backing a man who's selling an ideology as demonstrably destructive as socialism, I admire and respect their anger and their refusal to capitulate to the Democratic machine. Especially given their...
For The Children!?
Last night, Michelle Obama gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, this morning, is being widely praised and described as "the speech of her life" by numerous pundits. In my usual fashion, I opted to read the transcript rather than listen to applause...
Moralizing and Body Counts
Ambrosia Soto, mayor of Pungarabato, a small town west of Mexico City, was murdered last Saturday, reportedly for refusing to pay a local drug gang protection money from the town's budget. Domingo Lopez Gonzalez, mayor of San Juan Chamula, a town in the southern state...
The Quaint Appearance of Corruption
At the quaint level of public service where appearances of corruption to the public are considered, we find a great contrast with the steady news diet of stories of elite misbehavior. As you read, remember that not one financier has ever been deprived of a day's...
Hey Bernie Fans!
Hey Bernie fans! Still thinking about being loyal to "your party?" "Your party" actively worked against your candidate. "Your party" conspired with reporters to slant coverage against him. "Your party" sought to use religious labels and allegations against him. "Your...
Cronyism and The Press
New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin picked up on something that I, too, had noticed when searching for a transcript of Trump's RNC speech: the ubiquity of the word "dark" in press opinions about that speech. As Goodwin reported, the heavy hitters of the liberal...
A Tale of Two Tribes
Hot on the heels of the Ted Cruz drama at the Republican National Convention come revelations that the Democratic National Committee engaged in shenanigans intended to undermine Bernie Sanders' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. The DNC machinations,...
Clinton, Kaine and Caine
Hillary Clinton's announcement of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate caused one of those silly bits of random association that bubbles up from the depths of my brain from time to time. I flashed back to Kwai Chang Caine, the character of the 1970s...
Fact-Checking Trump
As I've written in the past, I prefer to read news and opinions rather than hear them spoken. So, this morning, I looked to read Trump's acceptance speech at the RNC last night. Googling "Trump acceptance speech" didn't produce the results I expected though i.e....
Clinton’s Citizens United Chutzpah
Apparently not content to wait out Trumpapalooza at the Republican National Convention, the Clinton camp announced that President Hillary will call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling within 30 days of becoming...
Trump Derangement Syndrome, V1
An amusing post popped up in my Facebook news feed this morning, shared on a center-right leaning political page by someone who got it from... well, you know how this stuff propagates. The originating page, the "Teanderthal Party," self-identifies as a political party...
Forget The Issues, Be Trendy!
Way back in my younger days, I used to frequent a bar on the north shore of Staten Island. One of its claims to fame was the second largest selection of beers in New York City at the time, and my friends and I set out to try them all. I recall a Corona Beer poster...
Redefining Globalization
Do you remember the anti-globalization protests that happened at the Seattle WTO meeting back in 1999? You're forgiven if you don't. Anti-globalization ain't what it used to be. Back then, "globalization" was one of the Left's big bogeymen. The protestors took...
Cleaning House
Yesterday's news was headlined by another shock and tragedy: the murder of three Baton Rouge police officers by a hate-filled black man with a history of calling for violence against police. This atrocity is the latest event in a growing chain of conflicts between...
Eyes Wide Shut
Qandeel Baloch, a 25 year old Pakistani social media star and provocateur for women's rights, was murdered the other day by her brother in a reported honor killing. Honor killings are just what they sound like - the murder of a family member (overwhelmingly a young...
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