If you sat down and tried to invent the worst possible person to put in charge of negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran — and obviously Donald Trump doesn’t count — you’d have no recourse but to choose JD Vance.If you didn’t know, and he takes every single opportunity to tell you, he’s the v…
Category: Opinion
Many of us have spent years convincing ourselves that President Donald Trump was one scandal away, one slip of the tongue, one fall on Air Force One, one essential predicate from ouster based on a buffet of underlying reasons, any one of which would take down a normal president.Fair warning, but her…
For the first time in 53 years — and for the first time in many of our lifetimes — the New York Knickerbockers are world champions.They achieved the ultimate goal in sports and now stand alone atop basketball’s Mount Olympus.This gritty, ridiculously talented, never-say-die bunch won 13 straight pla…
Speculating on the basis for President Donald Trump’s political and personnel moves is done only at one’s peril. The man’s mind, always a complex mix of paranoia, confidence, and confusion, is never linear, always leveraged, all in his personal favor.Despite that reality, it is gravely important to …
Overcompensation is a hell of a thing. Donald Trump knows he’s not universally beloved or widely respected like Barack Obama and Joe Biden are, and his entire miserable existence is one of constantly trying to make up for everything he wishes he had. Which is why he’s always making things up about h…
Jackson Lahmeyer, the candidate previously backed by President Donald Trump in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, dropped out of the race one day after advancing to a runoff in the GOP primary.NOTUS first reported earlier Wednesday that he was expected to drop out of the race.“After prayerful co…
Republican Warren Petersen vowed to help the Trump administration deport the more than 18,000 Arizonans who were brought to America as children and have federal protection if voters in November make him Arizona’s next attorney general.In a terse exchange on social media site X, formerly known as Twi…
Why, oh why does everyone jump through hoops when Donald Trump announces yet another deal with Iran? It’s become such a joke that when “breaking news” notifications pop up on my phone these days, I always say to myself, “Trump’s touting another Iran deal.”Only a fool would believe Trump when he says…
Republican candidates this year face a difficult dilemma for which there is no easy solution: They can’t tell voters the truth and still win.Take Kurt Alme, Montana’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate. He is accomplished and respected, but he entered the race through a maneuver to avoid a primary and…