When a patriot becomes a patsy
Once you realize that Oswald worked for the CIA and FBI, and learn what he did for them, questions about Kennedy’s assassination begin to resolve themselves.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
P. T. Barnum with an orange mop top
Trump may be a master charlatan, but charlatans are small fish. His ego makes him think he’s a big fish, but that doesn’t make him one. We need leaders, not egomaniacs. Just ignore him.
Black Jeopardy helps us make it to election day
Watch Tom Hanks win Black Jeopardy on SNL.
Fanaticism in our times
Now we see fanatics on campus who want to control what you think, what you say, how you behave, how you interact with your friends. If you make a mistake, as the fanatics define mistakes, they call you before kangaroo courts to punish you or expel you from the community.
President Duterte’s pivot toward Asia: another surprise for our earnest, bewildered and disinterested president
Obama remarks to Stephen Colbert, as if it’s a joke, ‘To be honest, I still don’t know what my Nobel Peace Prize was for.’
Supreme Court and electoral politics
No man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it if counted in or placed there …
Donald Trump’s claim that the presidential election is rigged
In that sense, Trump’s claim that the election is rigged merely extends Elizabeth Warren’s charge that the system is rigged. Both politicians weave their accusations from the same thread.
Donald’s big hands
Watch Stephen Colbert draw a big chalk cartoon of the Donald’s penis on the Late Show.
Vote your conscience
Does it matter who we elect November 8? Before you answer, note these comparisons: Compare George W.’s foreign policy with Barack’s …
Corrupting influence of political alliances
Why is #BlackLivesMatter aligned with the left? This political decision makes no more sense than the Tea Party’s decision to …
Five short takes on the campaign
How to mistreat women and get away with it Politics becomes entertaining again. First, the Donald wants us to think …
Gangster roast
The speakers at the Cheney roast made fun of Cheney’s affinity for waterboarding. That’s right. They chuckled and guffawed their way through multiple gibes about a form of torture that simulates drowning.
The Jeffersonian 