Winners Not Named Trump
Brent Budowsky writes in The Hill: According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage points. In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump's 38...
Most Corrupt City In The World
At one point during my time as a morning man on WCXR/Washington in the late 1980s, whenever I would give the weather forecast, I'd end with "right now it's (whatever) degrees in The Most Corrupt City In The World!" After about a month, the Program Director Andy...
Those Words Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean
Ted Cruz has apparently been going around quoting his favorite movie, "The Princess Bride," on the campaign trail: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."But according to Jason Horowitz at the NY Times, Mandy Patinkin (who played Inigo...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Angie Drobnic Holan, editor of Politifact, one of the best fact-checking websites in the business, says that more readers -- and reporters -- see the importance of verifying what presidential candidates say and challenging them when they lie: That’s not to say that...
I Told Stu A Lot Of Stories
I was supposed to do two hours with Stu Shostak on his live podcast yesterday, but ended up talking with him for nearly three hours about a wide assortment of topics. In addition to some highlights (and lowlights) of my radio career, we discussed Donald Trump, Stephen...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Sophia McClennen says Stephen Colbert gets lower ratings among Republicans because they just don't get his humor: It is the socially conservative, less educated, Tea Party version of the GOP that is least likely to want to watch smart comedy like Colbert’s. This is...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Nicholas Kristof offers some historical perspective on keeping refugees from coming to America: In January 1939, Americans polled said by a two-to-one majority that the United States should not accept 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children from Germany. That year, the...
Picture Of The Day
Shepard Smith, the only sane broadcaster at Fox News Channel, had some harsh words today for politicians and blowhards (including most of his colleagues) who have leapt at the opportunity to over-react to the attacks in Paris. Without naming names (e.g. the 20...