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Julia Ioffe apologized immediately for that unfair jibe. But only willful amnesia can explain anyone not remembering that Trump has made many jibes that were far more unfair. And he has yet to apologize for any of them. Donald Trump has deemed a journalist for GQ Magazine a ‘sick woman’ after she made a comment… Read more.
Lewis Hamilton is not as popular in the United States as LeBron James, Tom Brady, Bryce Harper, or even Alexander Ovechkin … yet. But he is more popular in nearly every other country than all of them. Keep this perspective in mind whenever you hear his name. Meanwhile, thanks to Hamilton’s charismatic dominance, Formula One… Read more.
Armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 congregants and wounding four police officers and two others. … [This was reportedly the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.] Critics of President Trump have argued… Read more.
Thank God most of them refuse to do what he wants. This cartoon riffs off the spectacle of Trump continually whining on TV and social media about people he hired refusing to do what he wants. Never mind that what he wants them to do is often illegal or ill-advised (in this case firing Mueller… Read more.
Next to the pro-Trump stickers plastered all over the white van authorities believe belongs to Cesar Sayoc are the names and photos of dozens of prominent Democrats and media figures — former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former first lady Michelle Obama, former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta E. Lynch and filmmaker Michael Moore.… Read more.
So forget that migrant caravan on the move down there in Mexico…? Another suspected bomb was found in New York City on Thursday morning as a manhunt was under way for a serial bomber targeting high-profile Democrats [including former U.S. President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Obama’s Attorney… Read more.
My abiding belief is that the Dead Sea Scrolls provide no greater insight into the life and times of Jesus Christ than the Shroud of Turin provides into his looks. The latter proselytizes the manifest absurdity that he had features that were more Aryan than Semitic. I commented on the debunking of such Christian myths… Read more.
Don’t let your hatred of President Trump blind you to this fact. The caravan of migrants from Central America grew to roughly 5,000 Sunday, a massive group that stretched along this city’s main highway for more than a half-mile. They spoke in different accents, fleeing different disasters: joblessness in parts of Honduras, a mounting political… Read more.
President Trump billed Kanye’s visit to the White House a week ago today as a summit to discuss urban development, vocational training, black unemployment (notably Colin Kaepernick’s), and criminal justice reform. Unsurprisingly, it was anything but. Here in essence is what Kanye said during a 10-minute, stream-of-consciousness rant in the Oval Office, which played out… Read more.
