Donald Trump picked a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel and because of that the New York Times barely concealed its glee today when responding to the demand by Trump’s lawyers for a retraction of yesterday’s story that Trump groped two women. Read more →
NPR’s news boss is firing back at media critic Jay Rosen, who chastised the news organization on Twitter today for its coverage of Donald Trump’s appearance at a church in Flint yesterday. Read more →
Oh, it’s on now between Donald Trump and NPR.
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Dallas knows a thing or two about presidential assassinations so even if one presidential candidate wasn’t suggesting the assassination of another — and we don’t think he was, for the record — the increasing political mob mentality in today’s politics is stirring memories in the city where President Kennedy was gunned down. Read more →
David Duke probably isn’t going to win a Senate seat in Louisiana. There are too many people running for the gig and the Republican Party has already said it won’t support him.
So what makes David Duke worthy of NPR airtime for a race among other candidates whom NPR probably won’t invite on Morning Edition? Read more →
This morning, CNN reports, the latest poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 15-percent edge over Trump in popular opinion, a testament to the true evil that threatens the country: us.
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Perhaps you’ve noticed that in the last few days, the election of 2016 is no longer a contest between Republicans and Democrats.
In the last few days, the developing civil war within the GOP has spilled further out into the open and, to a degree, it was fascinating to watch. Read more →
Somewhere — maybe — a political strategist for the Trump-Pence ticket is wondering how booing parents of soldiers is going to propel the Republicans into the White House.
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It should come as no surprise — although it still does — that the preferred Republican candidate for president of the United States thought it made some sense to attack Gold Star parents. It doesn’t take a political science degree to see the stupidity of doing so. Read more →
Among the most compelling stories in the tell-all books about presidential campaigns that inevitably follow an election is the behind-the-scenes story of how vice presidential candidates are selected.
This year, we don’t have to wait. The New York Times has the story this afternoon of how Donald Trump settled on Mike Pence of Indiana. Read more →
From the sound of things, writers Brad and Amy Herzog had a pretty good thing going for nearly two decades, traveling the country and writing a blog as spokespeople for the RV Industry Association. Then they wrote a book critical of Donald Trump. Read more →
Hey, thanks a lot, Urban Bean; You’re making life miserable for a coffee shop in Florida. Read more →
The thing about sectarian violence — and that’s what we must call political violence these days — is those who commit it will usually defend it in the most noble of terms.
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Here’s a pro tip from Washington Post syndicated political columnist Dana Milbank. Don’t ever declare you’ll eat your words if you’re wrong about something. Read more →
Jeff Daniels, who starred in HBO’s West Wing, recreated his Will McAvoy role — and the famous scene that launched the series — in a Bloomberg skit on Donald Trump.
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