Six years ago today, 20 children were gunned down in cold blood at Sandy Hook Elementary, while six educators were also killed trying to protect their students. All of this was perpetrated by a sociopath armed with an AR15 semi-automatic rifle, manufactured and sold for profit ...read more
Wednesday, December 12, was another historic day in the ongoing disintegration of both the Trump presidency and the Trump brand, with Trump the man-baby moving ever closer to impeachment and ignominy. We learned that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and bag-man, Michael Cohen, will ...read more
Donald Trump has to know. He has to know that he's in deep trouble. I mean, he can't really believe the court memos that dropped on Friday actually cleared him, can he? Between the time at which the explosive Michael Cohen sentencing memo went public and the time at which the ...read more
Donald Trump had yet another really bad day. It began with a series of ridiculously childish Twitter outburts, including one in which he accused Rex Tillerson of being "dumb as rocks" and another in which he screamed "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" possibly triggering a bomb threat called ...read more
Being a liberal Democrat, there are certain opinions that I have to either keep to myself or roll the dice and mention publicly at the risk of irritating people who might otherwise agree with me on...whatever. It's never a pleasant experience, but I've tended toward going public ...read more
I'd like to preface all of this with the caveat that we don't yet have hard evidence showing specific alterations in the midterm election results. And, with that in mind, I'd also like to suggest that, yes, Russia most likely played a part in changing the outcome in several key ...read more
In case you've been avoiding Fox News Channel and the Red Hats, here's what they're saying about this week's historic events. They're saying it's all a big nothingburger, just like always. Specifically, we learned this week that, yes, Donald Trump secretly worked on a deal to ...read more
While everything about the Trump Crisis is deeply abnormal and frustratingly opaque, we can often rest assured knowing that, no matter what, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. The closest thing to normalcy in this ongoing sack-full-of-monkeys is the predictability of ...read more
As if the tragedies and national indignities foisted upon the world by Donald Trump haven't been damaging enough, the president and his personal Wormtongue, the dead-eyed Stephen Miller, chose to allow the U.S. Border Patrol to launch tear gas at Central American refugees at the ...read more
It's not often that Donald Trump's outrageousness literally takes my breath away, but I audibly gasped the other day when I heard a clip of Trump being interviewed for Fox News Sunday. In the sit-down with Chris Wallace, Trump blurted favorably about how his administration cut ...read more
We've known for a long time that Donald Trump loves to elevate himself to super-human status. We've also known for a long time that words are meaningless to Trump. Very often, his use of words transparently and inadvertently reveal exactly what he's thinking, especially when he ...read more
It's never easy taking an unpopular position. It's especially difficult when the unpopularity of the position comes from your own side of the political debate. I've somehow managed to be in this tight spot on more than one occasion.... To continue reading this article, please go ...read more
Donald Trump and his minions will never admit that the nation's most dominant producer of "fake news" is not CNN, and it's certainly not The New York Times or The Washington Post. The traditional press makes its fair share of mistakes, as any sector of every industry does every ...read more
Photo: "Tiny Trumps" Subreddit By now, you've probably heard that Donald Trump refused to participate in several outdoor commemorative ceremonies in France to honor the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. The administration's excuse was bad weather, which, ...read more
(Image via Reuters) You might be surprised to learn that I've always kinda' liked former RNC chairman and current MSNBC analyst Michael Steele. He's a Never-Trumper and a seemingly reasonable guy regardless of his former political affiliations... To continue reading this ...read more
Two years ago, the day after the 2016 election was the first of many dark days that followed it. Today, with the midterm results hanging in the air like the pending results of a biopsy, I'm feeling both anxious and energized. Anxious, obviously, for the results to be announced at ...read more
Donald Trump is clearly terrified. He's terrified of a number of things including the fact that Adam Schiff will become the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee if the Democrats have a good day on Tuesday. Likewise, Jerry Nadler will become the chairman of the House ...read more
Whenever we talk about journalism movies, most of us always immediately reference the big three: All The President's Men, Broadcast News, and Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. Well, at least they're my big three. I'd also include The Paper, Spotlight, and a lesser-known movie that ...read more
I keep writing this because I keep hoping it's true: I wish I was wrong about Donald Trump, but I don't think I am. Ever since it became obvious Trump would be the Republican nominee for president, I've been deeply concerned that a foreign leader or an overseas terrorist group ...read more
I'm not breaking any news when I announce that I have total contempt for our current president. This is about more than just my mirror-opposite view of the issues. This is about Donald Trump as a man. Everything I've learned about character, ethics, morality, and especially ...read more
The president sets a tone for the nation. Whether he likes it or not, every president's words have to be carefully selected and choreographed, not just for political impact but primarily for avoiding the dispatching of the wrong message... To continue reading this article, ...read more
In a head-to-head competition over who can be the bigger assholes, liberal activists or Trump supporters, the Red Hats will win every time. As the War Games computer simulation "Joshua" said, "The only winning move is not to play." The anti-Trump protesters who've been verbally ...read more
Donald Trump's war on the news media reached all new depths this week. It doesn't take a lot of sleuthing to see how the brutal torture and murder of The Washington Post's Jamal Khashoggi has Trump's fingerprints all over it. Indeed, as we learn more and more about the story, it ...read more