From the British magazine The Jackal, MARCH 15, 2017 Politics has never been the prime interest of the American people. Oh, we like to gussie up the whole Revolutionary War thing with the `life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’’ mantra, but that was just something Thomas Jefferson spackled over what was basically a tax …
Despite attaining more than two million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. In Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, the Stanford philosopher Richard Rorty predicted that what he called the left would come to give “cultural politics preference over real politics”. This movement would contribute …
Donald Trump in 2005, caught on a hot microphone. “You can do anything–grab ’em by the pussy.”
2.29 “It’s scary,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has endorsed Marco Rubio, said on ABC’sThis Week She added: “I think what Trump will do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we’re about. And that’s something we don’t want to see happen.” 2.28 George Kennedy dies 2.28 …
These were sentences heard on Morning Joe on Monday, November 9th: “This is sui generis. We’ve never seen anything like this.” “Confusing beyond confusing to any established politician.” “I’ve never seen anything like it.” “There is no logic to it.” “It doesn’t make any sense.” What Mika, Donnie Deutsch, Willie Geist and the others were …
From my article in yesterday’s USA Today: “Whether you adore him or abhor him, the next time Donald Trump trudges across your TV screen, make your children watch. “Gaze upon him,” you should insist. “Yonder walks one of the last great examples of ’80s Man.” Nonsense, you say; the world is crawling with people who …
. . .is Trump Tower, right next door to Tiffany’s, where Customer of the Year Newt Gingrich met with TV Star-self-promoter Donald Trump to discuss how they might mutualy enrich one another.
In a fine example of state of the art thinking circa 1980, Peter Beinart today explains in The Daily Beast why this is Sarah Palin should seize this moment to run for president. “There will be never be a better moment,” he writes. “A conventional politician might bide his or her time, amass a record …
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