Here’s my conversation with ABC political analyst Steve Roberts about Donald Trump’s effect on the GOP presidential field, why he’s still leading in some polls, and how other candidates are trying to outdo him to get more attention. I also asked Steve about the impact Bernie Sanders is having on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Listen to […]
Six months ago, I wrote a short piece praising Jimmy Carter as our Best Ex-President Ever. Now here’s NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on Jimmy Carter’s legacy… It’s true that Carter sometimes floundered as president. He also had great difficulty, as an outsider, managing Washington, and suffered from a measure of anti-Southern prejudice. When the […]
The right wing has proven itself again and again to live in an evidence-free world. To them, facts are irrelevant, even biased, if they don’t follow the extremist conservative agenda. That’s why so many of them still believe that Obamacare has been a debacle. But as economist Paul Krugman points out in the NY Times, the […]
This is my pick for Best Newspaper Front Page Of The Year, from today’s NY Daily News:
I will give Donald Trump $1,000 if his big announcement tomorrow is that he’s taking over as head of the Spokane NAACP office. He has the same chance of making that happen as of becoming president.
Shame on ABC Radio for leading its Noon CT newscast today with the conspiracy theorists in Texas who believe that upcoming military exercises by the Pentagon are part of a plan to takeover their state and take away their guns. The anchor even included audio of an extreme right-wing radio host whose main agenda is […]