Reading time – 87 seconds; Viewing time – 2:42 . . . In a snappy article in the New York Times cleverly entitled, A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump, authors Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns list a single week’s “. . . blizzard of [Trump’s] falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies . . .” and… [read more]
About Those Deplorables
Reading time – 1:37 seconds; Viewing time – 2:56 . . . I instantly cringed when I heard Hillary say, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” There is a difference between the act (saying something deplorable) and the… [read more]
North Carolina
Reading time – 39 seconds; Viewing time – 1:36 . . . I saw Jennifer Roberts, the mayor of Charlotte, NC interviewed by Brian Williams a couple of nights ago and yesterday I found her leading a press conference. She thanked the local police (who conveniently did not have body cameras turned on when they… [read more]
This Spaceship Earth
Reading time – 1:29; Viewing time – 2:34 . . . SPECIAL TIME-SENSITIVE EDITION Everybody knows that climate warming is a hoax perpetrated by googly-eye tree-huggers bent on destroying our capitalist way of life. Everybody except nearly every climate scientist on the planet. And this guy. Click through and scroll slowly all the way to… [read more]
Email Exchange With a (gasp!) Republican
Reading time – A while . . . A while back my pal Dan Wallace and I had an email exchange and it occurred to me that you might like a peek inside the back-and-forth with a slightly right of center Republican and bona fide smart guy. DW Jack, Read to the bottom of the… [read more]
The Lesson
Reading time – 54 seconds; Viewing time – 1:54 . . . I fly a lot and often think about the people on those four airplanes on that awful day, September 11, 2001. Most often I think about those on United Flight #93. There had been victims of terrorists before then, like those on the… [read more]
“Nuthin’ There”
Reading time – 1:11; Viewing time – 2:46 . . . Caution: Contains snark. Sensitive readers and viewers are advised to either have an adult present or to stop whining and grow up. BREAKING NEWS In what is being hailed as a stunning piece of investigative journalism, our CYA News reporters Ben Dover and Simon… [read more]
¿Que es, Presidente Peña Nieto?
Reading time – 0:43 . . . Point #1 – It’s still true and it is as true in Mexico as it is in the United States that all politics is local and everything is political. Point #2 – Of the Mexican people and people of Mexican ancestry it can reasonably be said that Donald… [read more]
It Isn’t About Your Message
Reading time – 1:54; Viewing time – 3:17 . . . The 2012 general election generated a lot of forward looking comments from pundits and political operatives, like: The Republicans will have to change their messaging if they are going to appeal to Latinos. “Severely conservative” Mitt Romney will have to pivot to the center… [read more]
Baggage Claim
Reading time – 43 seconds; Viewing time – 1:44 . . . It’s time to admit that things are out of hand and are causing us great harm. Specifically, we have politically motivated emotional outbursts masquerading as policy statements and thoughtful commentary. These outbursts are as common as dandelions in spring and are just about… [read more]
