Month: April 2016

In 2010, strategic-minded New York Republican political consultants wanted to nominate Rick Lazio to run against Andrew Cuomo in the governor’s race, but the actual Republican voters of the Empire State preferred Carl...

So here I am, 15 minutes before tonight’s CNN so-called “debate.” Since I never, ever watch CNN if I can possibly help it (CNN-The Corporate News Network), it took me some time to find the channel. I finally...

Sen. Mike Lee, who appears to be Ted Cruz’s only friend in the Senate, has succeeded in using a hold to single-handedly deny the people of Flint, Michigan any funding to deal with their catastrophic lead-poisoning problem....

I don’t want to be overly cynical about this but I do try to be pragmatic. When I imagine living in a society where women (including lesbians) are married off without their consent and then expected to have sex with a...

They used to say that Bill Clinton was made of teflon because no bad news stuck to him, but last fall I began to think this was a better descriptor of Donald Trump who seemed to be able to say or do anything without it...