The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Ohio Is Trump Country

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio This morning I drove down to Mt. Gilead, county seat of Morrow County, and the route along Highway 61 was lined with Trump signs. The ratio of Trump to Biden signs was at least 10-to-1, if not higher. The county Republican Party headquarters in Mt. Gilead wasn’t yet open, but I got […]

Can Savannah Guthrie Prove Democrats Are NOT a Satanic Pedophile Ring?

  Has anyone asked Joe Biden whether he’s against pedophilia? Do you think it’s a coincidence the media haven’t asked him about this? SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: While we’re denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring, and that you are the savior of that. Now, can […]

‘Well, We Just Have to Win Then’

Politics is not about debate. Politics isn’t about compromise. It is not about “image.” Ultimately, politics is about power. This is something Republicans have a habit of forgetting. Because the Republican Party represents the respectable middle class, its leaders tend to be concerned with bourgeois respectability, an encumbrance which does not inhibit Democrats. Having assembled […]

Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19

  Late Thursday, the news broke that top aide Hope Hicks had tested positive for COVID-19 after exhibiting symptoms. Because Hicks had traveled on Air Force One during President Trump’s Cleveland trip, this raised concerns and, shortly after midnight, it was confirmed that both the President and First Lady had also tested positive. We don’t […]

@RealDonaldTrump: Still #Winning

  When your enemies keep breaking the law to attack you, we can conclude that your enemies are bad people: The New York Times published details Sunday of what it claimed were President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), going back more than two decades, showing “chronic losses and years of tax […]

Trump Getting 50% of the Catholic Vote

The abortion issue is hurting Biden: Catholic voters have an opportunity in November to help elect only the second Catholic president in U.S. history in former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, but already the more devout followers are lining up behind President Trump. Gone are the days when nearly 80% of Catholic voters united to […]

‘I Also Hope to Keep a Steady High’

  Worrying about politics is a waste of time, and nobody who knew me when I was in college could ever have imagined that I would grow up to become a political journalist, wasting my time this way. My perspective on the political scene is idiosyncratic, simply because most people in this racket have been […]

Why Is Ann Coulter Doing This?

An unnecessary conflict: Former Donald Trump fan Ann Coulter yesterday went on an extraordinary Twitter rant, calling the president a ‘disloyal retard’ and a ‘blithering idiot.’ Coulter was incensed on Sunday after Trump tweeted ‘Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions’, the latest attack by the president on his former Attorney General. The far-right pundit said […]

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