Excuses and Conspiracies

The attached graphic popped up in one of my political pages today. It posits a suggestion I’ve seen repeatedly – that Trump’s campaign has been, all along, a grand conspiracy to ensure Clinton gets elected President. And, in some versions, to destroy...

Nixon Didn’t Stain

Richard Nixon is synonymous with Presidential crookedness in the USA. But this is more indicative of the political culture of the day than of Nixon’s offenses. In retrospect, Nixon’s political dirty tricks seem quaint compared to what goes on now. And...

Playing The World’s Smallest Violin

In the wake of grumblings from the Far-Left about how President-apparent Hillary Clinton better not stray from the positions she co-opted from Bernie Sanders comes this article “warning” NYTimes readers that a Clinton presidency comes with its own perils....