The Urgency of King’s Message: Forty Eight Years and Counting
I think I’ve found a new, potent source of energy; Martin Luther King, Jr. spinning in his grave over the state of race relations in the country and on the presidential election trail. All we need to...
View ArticleA Political Snow Job
If nothing else, the big blizzard that hit the East Coast is sparing us from some of the oh-so-trite coverage of the presidential election, which actually only gets underway eight days hence. Governor...
View ArticlePolitical Junkies Unite! It’s Time to Vote
I predict that the global rise in temperature will show a significant decline on Monday as all the hot air bloviators, pollsters, consultants and media talking heads hold their steamy breath as they...
View ArticleCruz Bumps Trump, Rubio A ReMarcoble Third, Dems Deadlocked
I’m not really the type to say “I told you so,” but I indeed told you so on numerous occasions that Donald Trump would not be the GOP nominee and neither will Ted Cruz. Trump’s second place finish in...
View ArticleChristie’s Last Stand
It’s too late to say it with any meaningful conviction now, but Chris Christie should have run for president when the Republican Party and Nancy Reagan were imploring him to do so in the late fall of...
View ArticleThe Very Late New Hampshire Primary Predictions
Here’s how it will go down: GOP Trump–28% Kasich–20% (upset special) Rubio–17% Bush–13% Cruz–11% Christie–8% Fiorina–2% Carson–1% Democrats Sanders–54% Clinton–46% There’s a real possibility that...
View ArticleChristie’s Fat Tuesday Result Leaves His Campaign In Ashes
Those of us in New Jersey knew that this day would come, and it’s really best for the country that Chris Christie has ended his presidential bid. The governor does not have the personality to be a...
View ArticlePublic Workers: Working Hard, Paying More, Getting Less, Being Blamed. Solution?
Governor Christie wasn’t back in New Jersey for two days before his administration and its apologists went back on the attack on public worker pensions and health benefits. The man who promised that he...
View ArticleHillary Salves the Bern: Trump Burns Bush
I don’t think this is what the GOP had in mind when they made the calendar and rules that would govern the primaries. The party clearly wanted to make it easier for a candidate to consolidate support...
View ArticleTrump-Christie Agonistes
This is what happens when a political party is in the midst of self-destruction. I remember it well when the Democrats dissolved between 1972 and 1984, and these last, frantic days should remind us...
View ArticleThe GOP Creates a False Reality
I don’t know why people are so concerned about Donald Trump’s foreign policy experience. He’s currently fighting a war right here in the United States, and he seems to be winning. The past couple of...
View ArticleVoters Scratch the 35 Year Itch
I think I understand why more than a third of Republican voters are fed up with the Republican Party and are supporting Donald Trump for president (including this list of august personalities who have...
View ArticleDenying the Climate of Fear
It was certainly bound to happen. After all, one of Donald Trump’s earliest backers hosted the same crowd when she was running for national office. This is what happens when a politician plays into the...
View ArticleThe Countdown to the GOP Explosion
I’m at the point now where I don’t care about the process by which the Republican Party commits Hara-Kiri. I just want it to be over. In its boldest move yet, the party has committed itself to making...
View ArticleTerror Reminds Us of What’s At Stake
Just when it looked like we were going to spend the spring being subjected to the GOP food fight about wives and Supreme Court blockades and keeping swarthy people out of the country, along comes a...
View ArticleThe Reality Show Election Just Got Very Real
It is true that political discourse has taken a wildly unpredictable and extremely troubling turn in this country, but just when it seems that the shouting match will get louder, along comes a...
View ArticleIt’s April 2016: Do You Know Where Your Vote Is?
Now that we’ve got some room to breathe a bit until the New York primary hits with full force this week (that’s when the ads will start running), it’s worth looking at the present election season and...
View ArticleThe Christie Era Is Over
It happened so quickly and so quietly that I wasn’t sure exactly what transpired, but it appears that the Chris Christie era in New Jersey is over! Yes, I know we have to officially endure the Governor...
View ArticleThe Neutering of Trump. Just Spayin’
Word is that Donald Trump will act more presidential from this point forward. Of course, not everyone is buying it, but the New York primary seems to have marked a turning or shifting point in the GOP...
View ArticleMr. May vs. Ms. October
Those of us old enough to remember the halcyon days of the late 70s and early 80s and the great New York Yankee teams of that era with their owner, George Steinbrenner. George knew greatness and proved...
View ArticleThe Silly Season Starts Early
Technology really speeds things up, no? We used to have to wait until August to read and experience stories that made little sense or that focused on the non-political part of the political process,...
View ArticleThe Ali Effect
So many thoughts. So many questions. So much controversy. So much for us to learn from his actions. Such was the man and his effect on the country. Others have written with far more eloquence than I...
View ArticleThe Endless Election Finally Begins
Good news: The primaries are over. Well, except for the DC primary this Tuesday, but that one really won’t count for much. Bad news: The general election is on our doorstep, promising us five months of...
View ArticleReport: Orlando Shooter and Wife Texted Each Other During Massacre
In the beginning, Noor Salman, wife of the Orlando shooter, insisted that she had no idea what her husband was up to when he gunned down 49 people at a Pulse night club. Now, reports say the two were...
View ArticleOne Week Later
It’s been a week since the attack in Orlando and much of what’s happened is predictable. Both political parties have rolled out their positions on gun control, and both are very familiar. Democrats...
View ArticleIf Only We Could Trexit
If only Donald Trump would Trexit. Before November, when he’ll likely Trexit anyway. Yes, I know that the British vote to leave the European Union is being interpreted as a warning that the angry,...
View ArticleWe Need to Calm Down
If we need anything now, it’s to stop talking and let the investigations into the tragedies of the past week move forward. After all, in the overwhelming number of big news stories, the early...
View ArticleLock Him Up
Don’t you just love politics and politicians? Here’s a group of people who seemingly do not ever consider that what they say about their opponents will even happen to them. And yet… This week’s...
View ArticleI Will Always Tell You the Truth… And Other Lies…
Which, of course, is an absolute lie, no matter who says it. But the fact that it was Donald Trump, all-of-a-sudden apologizing and blabbering on about how in the heat of a campaign he might have said...
View ArticleThe Last Quiet Week
You do realize that this will be the last week that food stores will be listing summer fruits, vegetables and other items in their sales flyers, right? After Labor Day it will suddenly be soup, oatmeal...
View ArticleBack To School: A Different Kind of Division
The great divide in American public attitudes is most evident during Presidential election years, and this year is no different. Republicans and Democrats seem to be living in two different countries...
View ArticleConcerned About the Polls? Don’t Be.
I know you. You’re a Democrat, or at least someone who believes that Donald Trump is a disaster waiting to happen, and you’ve been very concerned over the past week because the polling seems to […]
View ArticleTime For the Main Event
I suppose it was inevitable that the first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign would be touted as a must-see, Super Bowl-sized audience extravaganza. This has been building since Dwight Eisenhower...
View ArticleUgliness in the Season of Beauty
I usually look forward to the December holidays because, for at least one month, people in the United States tend to he hopeful, helpful, optimistic and happy. They look backward at the year that was...
View ArticleMake America Great? Promote the Arts and Culture.
Had enough yet? Of course not. And it’s still February. If the press conference wasn’t proof enough that the president still doesn’t have a handle on his facts, then let’s move on to those things that...
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