Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! It is not surprising that Sanders embraces the policies of failed socialist and quasi-socialist governments from decades past. Nor is it that surprising that Trump, whose views on everything are a strange mishmash of gut reactions, prejudice and emotion, finds...
Month: June 2016
I think this really should be the end of the line in terms of Tim Kaine as VP pick: Sen. Tim Kaine legally accepted more than $162,000 in gifts when.
Don't kid yourself: this perennially effective and powerful movement is brimming with seriousity this time: Republicans opposed to Donald Trump are plotting a last-ditch effort to deny him their party’s.
The field of lying, cynical pro-Brexit hacks chasing the Tory leadership Dave referenced below has been reduced by one: Boris Johnson has unexpectedly ruled himself out as a candidate for Britain’s next prime minister, after the justice secretary, Michael Gove, sent shockwaves through Westminster with...
My latest at the Diplomat.
I am for one am shocked that when terrorists strike the Istanbul airport, there's not an outpouring of grief and sympathy from the west. Where's all my Facebook friends changing.
Michael Gove has joined the cast of thousands vying to be the next Conservative Party leader, hence Prime Minister. Seriously. Yesterday while enjoying a pint or several with fellow bemused Labourites, we figured Gove was the next Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Boris government....
A useful interactive model. I suspect it overstates Trump's chances -- the models can't know about Trump's organizational issues -- but I think we can agree that the chances of.
This could potentially be a valuable service for a certain kind of religious leader: They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but it sure doesn’t feel that way.
"Jim Ruth?" Yeah, right. Fess up, LGMers. For many of us, Trump has only one redeeming quality: He isn’t Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t want to turn the United States into a politically correct, free-milk-and-cookies, European-style social...
OLDMAN MUND: I GOT YOU SEK: You got me how? OLDMAN MUND: TOTALLY GOT SEK: How so? OLDMAN MUND: COMPLETELY GOTTEN SEK: Should I be worried? OLDMAN MUND: PEED ALL.
This question is inspired by David Brooks' latest pseudo-anthropological musings regarding the subject. (A curious feature of this column is that it's obvious Brooks is discussing the white working class,.