Donald Trump is shielded from indictment by a policy with no standing in law. (Photo: Getty)
If I had a dime every time a 1973 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)...
I want to start off by saying, the story I am about to tell is my personal experience. In no way should it detract from the hardships that people of color face every single day.,...
Donald Trump’s presidency began on a low point and has been sinking deeper ever since, freighted by lies, half-baked policy decisions and gross incompetence. ...
Donald Trump’s negligence as president becomes more and more glaring as COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop. He not only failed to act when he should have, he continues to mismanage the crisis....
Last night, the nice folks at Twitter permanently suspended my account – again. For the fourth time. The previous three times I was kicked off the site were for trolling upstanding “patriots” Matt Gaetz, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, respectively....
Top Trump officials who have refused subpoenas to testify in impeachment hearings should face a long-standing process as old as the nation itself. They should be held in contempt of Congress....
Ben Stein is getting scourged on social media for comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Hitler (Photo by Chad J. McNeeley)
Ben Stein long ago plunged into t...
Donald Trump and his Fox News acolytes are describing the president’s summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as an historic event achieved by no other recent president. But his biggest accomplishment was legitimizing a grisly dictator with a duplicitous history and long string of human rights violations. No other president sought to dignify Kim, or any of his previous family-member leaders, because they realized it would represent a de-facto acceptance of his brutal regime....
The National Football League (NFL), hoped to put to rest the controversy over kneeling players, by ginning up a new rule that would fine teams and those who kneel during the pre-game National Anthem. The NFL did just the opposite. The league showed total ignorance about what really makes this country great, subverting Democracy in the process. The move is clearly meant to placate Donald Trump, who blew up the issue into a national brouhaha with his misguided criticism of the players....
Cynthia Nixon, the former “Sex and the City” star, has officially declared she’s running for New York Governor in the Democratic primary against two-term incumbent Andrew Cuomo, even though she has no administrative or elective experience. Thanks, but no thanks. Nixon’s biggest qualification for office is her name recognition. Like most celebrities, it’s high, and mostly favorable. But the problem with celebrity is that it’s often inextricably linked to self-entitlement, self-absorption and not a little self-delusion....