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President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president’s own conduct. The move came just days before Stone was to begin serving a 40-month prison sentence for lying to… Read more.
Capitalizing the B when referring to Black people might not seem like a big deal. However, when editors at The New York Times, USA Today, and the Columbia Journalism Review all make a big deal of their change in style, it’s certainly worthy of comment. Here is how the Times announced and rationalized its (belated)… Read more.
No. But, if they can, they should … in the public interest. One of the constants of modern elections is that presidential candidates have released their recent tax returns… But Donald Trump has told the Associated Press that he does not expect to release his tax returns before the election… If he’s Honest Donald, he’ll… Read more.
It is often said of the unsuccessful politician that, if voters had only seen what he’s like in private, he would have been successful. But I never bought into this political trope. You need only recall that this is what was said to explain Al Gore’s abysmal failure as a presidential candidate in 2000. With… Read more.
No doubt you recall that Mitt Romney was caught on tape during the presidential campaign dissing 47 percent of the American people as a bunch of welfare parasites living off the wealth of people like him. And perhaps, like his VP running mate Paul Ryan, you thought Romney was just being “inarticulate.” In which case, consider… Read more.
Here are some of the unassailable and distinctly non-racial reasons former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave for endorsing President Obama for re-election on the October 25 edition of the CBS Morning News: When he took over, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The… Read more.
I usually avoid the goings-on in the Twitterverse like the plague. But my civic duty compels me to chime in on the backlash Clueless actress Stacey Dash is suffering for publishing the following tweet on October 7: Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future. Frankly, the way she is being pilloried (by Black,… Read more.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulled a “full Ginsburg” on Friday by appearing on all of the major TV networks in a futile attempt to counter the pummeling he was taking from the Obama campaign about his business practices at his investment firm, Bain Capital. Specifically, Team Obama was flooding the media with stories about… Read more.
What is it with Republican presidential candidates queuing up to seek Donald Trump’s blessings as if he were the friggin’ Pope?! Last week Rick Perry ascended the stairs of his gilded, eponymously named tower in NYC for this purpose; Mitt Romney is scheduled to do the same next week; and Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann made their… Read more.
Think what you will of Sarah Palin, but she made a really good first impression on the national stage: remember her VP-nomination speech in 2008? Of course, she’s been such an unmitigated embarrassment since then that Republicans can be forgiven for thinking that speech was just a political wet dream. Which makes watching her flirtation with a… Read more.
