Guest AuthorOctober 31, 2024
10min0
Why is Halloween such big business? Because Americans love it, and we’re free to spend as much as we want.
Tag: The Donald
Guest AuthorOctober 31, 2024
Mac StipanovichJuly 15, 2021
9min3121
Unrest in Cuba provided more evidence of just how politically impoverished, morally bankrupt, personally petty, and hyperpartisan we have become.
Jacob OglesOctober 31, 2018
5min299
When President Donald Trump announced he’d host an Oct. 31 rally in Florida, the real question wasn’t what he’d say but what the crowd would wear. Would there be vacuform masks of The Donald? Would witches cast some unholy spell to life Rick Scott’s Senatorial ambitions, or could some sexy version of a children’s cartoon show pass out “Make […]
Guest AuthorOctober 22, 2016
4min190
The GOP has just been hoisted by its own petard thanks to The Donald. For the last several years the GOP has vigorously pursued the implementation of measures in one state after another that have made voting more difficult. All along it has defended this voter suppression campaign as necessary to combat rampant voter fraud. […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 3, 20156min217
Marco Rubio likes to say he’s representing the future of the Grand Old Party. (An oxymoron, no?) He’s a new face, he’s young, he’s definitely not “low-energy” or overly familiar (Jeb Bush; Hillary Clinton), he’s sane (not Rand Paul), he has charisma (not Scott Walker), he’s unflappable (not Chris Christie), he’s not brash and false […]
Guest AuthorAugust 10, 2015
10min318
Donald Trump wants it both ways: He wants to be brash and quotable and then when he’s asked about it, he wants to complain about the question and the questioner. Let me be honest: I’m not a Trump fan. I think he’s a single-issue candidate – immigration – that has gotten far because America is […]
Bob SparksJuly 9, 20157min279
A great deal of column-inch space and cable television time lately is devoted daily to Donald Trump. His controversial comments are analyzed, dissected and put before other candidates. “Do you (fill in GOP presidential candidate’s name) condemn Trump’s comments about undocumented immigrants?” Another regular subject of speculation is whether Trump is damaging the GOP brand. […]