I was in Las Vegas this weekend, playing poker, betting on NFL games, and having some good meals. Monday morning, while walking to The Peppermill (my favorite spot for breakfast in that town), I passed CNN’s setup in front of The Wynn, the site of tonight’s debate among the Democrats who want to be present. […]
Nicholas Kristof in today’s New York Times: In Great Britain, people used to kill themselves by putting their heads in the oven and asphyxiating themselves with coal gas. This accounted for almost half of British suicides in the late 1950s, but Britain then began switching from coal gas to natural gas, which is much less […]
Trevor Noah really hit his stride on his fourth “Daily Show” with this piece comparing Donald Trump to megalomaniacal African dictators…
An excerpt from former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ 2014 book, “Six Amendments: How And Why We Should Change The Constitution,” in which he explains the five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment… As a result of the rulings in Heller and McDonald, the Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the […]
Tuesday night, Ted Cruz was a guest on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and got a little bit of heat from the host when he invoked Ronald Reagan’s name. For some reason, within the GOP, that’s like mentioning Jesus Christ, because they believe that Ronnie was the savior of this nation and never did anything wrong. […]
Gail Collins on what happens if GOP extremists succeed in closing down more Planned Parenthood clinics: When Planned Parenthood leaves town, bad things follow. Ask the county in Indiana that drove out its clinic, which happened to be the only place in the area that offered H.I.V. testing. That was in 2013; in March the […]