Donald TrumpĢƵ distinctive rhetorical style — think of a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James JoyceĢƵ “Finnegans Wake” under water — poses an almost insuperable challenge to people whose painful duty is to try to extract clarity from his effusions.For example, on Friday, during ...
Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack ObamaĢƵ mischief was methodical.Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson, asked about criticism from Richard Nixon, testily responded: “I do not want to get into a debate .?.?. with a chronic campaigner like Mr. Nixon.” ...
Antonin Scalia, who combined a zest for intellectual combat with a vast talent for friendship, was a Roman candle of sparkling jurisprudential theories leavened by acerbic witticisms. The serrated edges of his most passionate dissents sometimes strained the courtĢƵ comity and occasionally ...
When Huck Finn asked Tom Sawyer what a Moslem is, Tom said a Moslem is someone who is not a Presbyterian, which is true, but not the whole truth. Donald Trump says he is a Presbyterian (“I drink my little wine .?.?. and have my little cracker”), which apparently was not good enough for ...
Michael BloombergĢƵ epiphany about the 2016 presidential proceedings is that what is missing is a second bossy, big-government billionaire from ManhattanĢƵ East Side — another candidate with malleable party loyalties. Bloomberg, whose net worth in 2015 was estimated by Forbes at ...
China produces an astonishing number of astonishing numbers, including this: In the 20th century, the United States made automobiles mass-consumption items, requiring prodigious road building. China, however, poured more concrete for roads and other construction between 2011 and 2013 than the ...