President Donald Trump fires the true culprit in his Reflecting Pool disaster.The latest from Raw Story’s Nick Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Category: Opinion
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan, declared Thursday morning, seems to have broken the brains of Republicans and the chattering class.Donald Trump’s pathetic bleats notwithstanding, people voting for progressive Democrats and “democratic socialists” aren’t voting for communism or even socialism; …
Obviously, this is not our first warning; indeed, Donald Trump’s response to the Michigan Democratic primary fits a pattern that goes back years and will certainly progress through the general election this Fall. But hearing him rail away in theory doesn’t shake the spine like seeing it in practice….
As a veteran, I will go to my grave believing that covering each other’s six doesn’t end at the grave. I learned the military mantra, meaning to “protect each other from danger coming from behind,” when I enlisted in the Vietnam War as an armorer after two of my childhood friends were killed in acti…
It seems like only yesterday that Pam Bondi was confirmed as Attorney General and every political type in Washington assured us she was qualified because, after all, she’d once held the job in Florida.I’m cynical in the most extreme way when it comes to anything involving the Trump administration, s…
It seemed so trivial. Trump ordered the Interior Department to post signs along the walkways leading up to several of the museums that make up the Smithsonian system in Washington, D.C., warning people that they’d find “inaccurate information” therein. It was based on a bizarre “report” written by t…
As I write these words, Todd Blanche is cruising toward being confirmed as Attorney General for the United States. What looked improbable just a few days before quickly became, essentially, a done deal after Blanche did the bare minimum to assuage the concerns of lame-duck Senators John Cornyn (R-TX…
Hey, here’s a thing. Donald Trump, the United States President, aged 80, managed yet again to go full North Korea “Glorious Leader” and win his golf club’s championship for the 43rd straight time. Our full-time golf pro and part-time president tweeted: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Champi…
I’ll admit for a few days last week, I started to believe it too.Today is Aug. 3, the deadline for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to call a special election to fill Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat if it becomes vacant. And for weeks, a theory has been metastasizing across social media, gossip sites, a…
When history looks back on the unraveling of 60 Minutes, one question will loom larger than all the others: What do you do when the institution you love is no longer the institution you joined?Scott Pelley answered that question with clarity. Others who resigned — or were shown the door after refusi…