Having lost a few (lots of) steak dinner bets on whether Trump would be the nominee (I said no), and nursing my bitter disappointment that it won’t be Florida’s miracle governor, Ron DeSantis, I asked one of the steak dinner champions his secret method. Me: How did you know??? How could you possibly have imagined […]
Do you care about fentanyl, New Hampshire? Every year, more than 400 of your fellow Granite Staters die from drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl. Nikki Haley promises to keep the fentanyl pipeline open. You can’t have missed it — she says it at every speech, debate, town hall, roundtable, meet-and-greet, TV interview and casual conversation: — […]
In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as “more easily led than other kinds of voters.” Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.” (The Washington Post issued a correction; the Times did not.) For the past week, the media have been trying to […]
The Claudine Gay affair reminds me that we need a reckoning on how the “intersectionality” project is going. The idea was that after centuries of being kept down by racism and sexism — although that didn’t seem to hurt accomplished Black women like Barbara Jordan, Condi Rice, Jessye Norman, Zora Neale […]
One of this year’s major news stories is how Republicans, like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, are trying to BAN the teaching of history — which, as everyone knows, consists exclusively of lessons about slavery; queer studies; Lewis Latimer, the Black inventor of the light bulb (“not a white guy named Edison,” as President Biden said); “mass […]
Democrats have three paths to victory next November, all being eagerly embraced by Republicans. PLAN A: Enrage Republicans by bringing a string of ludicrous indictments, civil suits and ballot disqualifications against Donald Trump, thus tricking the GOP into making him the nominee. RESULT: Joe Biden easily wins a second term. If Trump behaves as we […]
The media are trying to pick the GOP nominee for us just like they did with John McCain. (Remember how great that worked out?) Once again, their pick is the whiny warmonger — this time, Nikki Haley. No wall and guaranteed to lose! What’s not to like? (Democrats: Please! Anyone but Gov. Ron DeSantis!) This week, headlines hyped the […]
