In response to Donald Trump's overly-amplified declaration that "I alone can fix this," Bernie Sanders tweeted, "Is this guy running for president or dictator?" The answer to Bernie's question is obviously "dictator." Definitely dictator. For the past year, since Trump declared ...read more
Historians will spend countless years examining why too many white Americans were so bent out of shape in 2016. If we look to past eras in which rage was the order of the day, what exactly instigated it? Is it the economy? Probably not this time, given how most economic ...read more
If you're wondering what might happen if the Republican Party attempts to strip the nomination from Donald Trump, conspiracy weeble Alex Jones and former Trump adviser Roger Stone have an idea. And it's not what you think. Stone appeared again on Jones' radio show the other day, ...read more
Conservative columnist David Brooks sounds awfully reasonable these days, so reasonable that one might actually mistake him for a liberal. Brooks is also fed up with the Republican Party, an institution now so royally screwed up that Brooks is suggesting it forfeits the election ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via Yahoo! News): TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — His Republican National Convention curtailed by a threatened hurricane, Mitt Romney conceded Sunday that fresh controversy over rape and abortion is harming his party and he accused Democrats of trying to ...read more
By Chez Pazienza: It really makes me feel old: Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew striking my hometown of Miami, Florida. Andrew was the first big story I covered in the TV news business; I was only 22-years-old at the time. The monster storm -- a Cat 5 -- ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via the Huffington Post): Chris Christie, the sometimes abrasive but always entertaining governor of New Jersey, is set to be announced Tuesday as the keynote speaker for the Republicans' national convention later this month. Christie, who ...read more