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The big ‘red wave’ that wasn’t

The battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives is on.ItĢƵ nasty, and about to get much nastier in the coming months.Democrats haven’t controlled that chamber since 2010.They’re hopeful that will change after NovemberĢƵ midterm elections.If they manage to flip two dozen ...

Truth takes a holiday

When President Trump travels to one of his campaign speeches, he leaves the truth behind.I’d say he travels light, but he makes sure he takes a satchel-full of attacks, hyperbole, half-truths and downright blarney -- to the delight of his ecstatic crowds.“They just came out with a poll, did ...

Trump and the Ministry of Truth

On January 21st, 2017, the first full day of the Trump presidency, White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told a big whopper.“That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period,” Spicer proclaimed.There was ample visual evidence that SpicerĢƵ claim was false.There are ...

All the worldĢƵ a stage

Whenever President Trump steps onto the world stage, he always feels compelled to give a performance.In the end, he takes his bows, even when hardly anybody applauds him.ACT I: When he flew to Brussels, he played Count Dracula.He sucked the lifeblood right out of that NATO summit.He launched ...

TrumpĢƵ uncivil defense

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a point.Last Monday, she stepped to the podium during a White House briefing and she was rightfully upset, because she’d been asked to leave a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.The owner of the Red Hen restaurant polled her ...

So the tough guy blinks….

President Trump still wants to build a wall.Instead, he ran head first into a wall built on the collective outrage of people who had enough of him using children snatched from their parentĢƵ arms, as a cheesy political maneuver.Splat!In the end, Trump, the tough guy, blinked; caved; ...