Month: July 2016

David Duke Will Run for Senate

Maybe you’re feeling a little dispirited, maybe a little nervous, after watching the spectacle of the 2016 Republican National Convention. If so, this will not help: Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Friday...

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Why I Am Still Not Voting For Hillary Clinton

I monitored Donald Trump’s acceptance speech from a bourbon-fogged pit of despair. My clearest memory is the Wonkette live-commenter who simply put up a frame of Gerald Scarfe’s goose-stepping hammers. So let us...

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Trump’s Message is Powerful

Over at The Corner, Jim Geraghty frames things just right: The pivotal question about Donald Trump’s speech is, do the viewers at home listen to his description of the country’s problems – lawlessness, a growing terrorism threat...

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Verbatim

If I had had a blog back in 2000, I would have written a column like Ezra Klein’s piece on Trump, except it would have been about George W. Bush. I don’t know how you could live through the Bush presidency and say...

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