The Clinton Foundation Brouhaha
The Associated Press has come out with a story showing that a majority of non-governmental individuals that Hillary met with as Secretary of State during a selected period had been donors to the Clinton Foundation. The reasonable concern is that ...
Read MoreIs Trump right about anything?
Well, yes, much as I hate to say it, he’s sort of right about a few things, mainly in foreign policy. And now that he’s tanking in the polls, I can shed my reluctance to acknowledge his very limited merits. ...
Read MoreTrump and the Media (II)
Just a quick post today, since I can’t resist an “I told you so,” or, rather a “You heard it from me first” opportunity. A little over two months ago, I predicted that the mass media’s treatment of Donald Trump ...
Read MoreThe Non-dis-endorsers
President Obama has posed a question and a challenge to the numerous Republican leaders who have repeatedly found themselves disavowing one or another outrageous statement by Donald Trump but who still continue to endorse him: What does it take before ...
Read MoreBounce, Bounce
It almost invariably happens that a presidential candidate gets a “bounce” in the polls following his/her party’s convention. It even happened after the Republican grotesquerie in Cleveland: Donald Trump actually surged to a small lead over Hillary Clinton in most ...
Read MoreThe Hypopartisan Convention
I thought the Democrats did a good job in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech reminded us that her oratorical skills fall short of Bill’s or Barack’s, but after a rather wooden start, she loosened up and gave a pretty good ...
Read MoreThe Republicans Convene
I watched very little of the GOP convention. I just couldn’t bring myself to subject myself to the predictable mix of nonsense, hysteria and vitriol that was to pour forth from the podium. I did tune in now and then, ...
Read MoreShort Takes
Bernie Endorses Hillary Bernie’s timing was, I think, just right. A lot of Democrats were understandably impatient for Sanders to move on, accept defeat and begin to help unite the party against Trump. But Sanders hasn’t been running just to ...
Read MoreHillary’s E-mails, Redux
I don’t really want to blog about Hillary’s e-mails, but the topic really is unavoidable, isn’t it? I don’t see that the FBI report adds much new information to what was known after the State Department Inspector General’s report was ...
Read MoreBrexit and the US
The Brexit vote inevitably invites comparison to the upcoming presidential election in the United States. It’s clear that Brexit wasn’t just a vote to leave the European Union: It was a vote against immigration, laden with racial fears and resentment. ...
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