It’s the end of the world as Sanders knows it. Every poll that’s been done today shows he’ll at least lose Maryland and Pennsylvania. Almost every poll shows Hillary having a smaller lead in Connecticut and Delaware (small, white New England states he should win). He may not even win Rhode Island, although that’s definitely his best…
Category: Larger Editorials
Do We Have “GOP Stockholm Syndrome?” Are We Immune to Their Crazy?
One of the many dangers of having an 18-month primary season (the earliest presidential candidates joined the fray in the first months of 2015) but barely a 4-month general election season is that there’s so much party in-fighting you might get used to Republican crazy or even take it for granted. Sure, Bernie is a…
Will New York Primary Really Change Anything? Probably Not
New York is the third most populated state in America, it’s home to the most populated city in America, and it’s got direct ties to all of the main presidential candidates: Trump and Bernie are from there. Hillary was a Senator there. And Ted Cruz directly insulted them even as he also took money from Wall…
Trump Saying Saudia Arabia Should Have “Nukes” Scares Me
[Note: The actual headline of this article—which I had to edit for brevity’s sake—was “Trump Saying Saudia Arabia Should have Nuclear Weapons Scares The Hell Out of Me.”] It’s strange that the media has made covering Trump’s every second a national priority. [At this point Trump is the anti-Beetlejuice, you have to say his name three times to…
The Southeast is Actually the MOST Important Area for Democrats
For months we’ve seen Bernie and his even worse traveling circus of goons—i.e. surrogates—basically write-off the Southeast and laugh dismissively about Hillary’s wins there. They might say different variations of things like “Well, it doesn’t matter if Hillary won ‘Bamasippi’ as she’ll never win those states in November.” They might even mock the “ignorance” of…
Why I’m NOT Live-Blogging Tonight’s Democratic Debate
In the past I’ve live-blogged the majority of GOP and Democratic Debates. I haven’t kept up much with the endless Town Halls, forums, awkward “meet my family” hostage takings, or Trump’s daily appearances on cable news networks, but who could really blame me? Only the debates really “matter” if anything at all matters in this…
Actually, Hillary Doesn’t Need Bernie’s Fans, but He Sure Needs Hers
We’ve heard the same tired lines about the Democratic primary for months: “Well, no matter who wins the primary” as if there’s any doubt Hillary will “they’ll need each other’s fans.” And now that we’ve seen Bernie’s chances of winning winnow down to zero, the more specific “Hillary will need to appeal to his fans…
Is Obama Right in Saying Trump Won’t Succeed Him as President?
Recently, Barack Obama spoke to a group of Los Angeles fundraisers. [I wonder if Bill Maher was there? I’m guessing not. I wonder if Obama’s swinging by tonight’s Real Time episode? Also, I’m guessing not.] And he made the bold prediction that Trump isn’t “succeeding” him as President. Now sure, that sounds like sound money…
Needless to Say, Hillary Clinton is Beyond “Qualified” to be President
This article won’t be very long. Recently, Bernie Sanders—-auditioning for the role of “distant relative everybody is a little disappointed showed up to the family reunion”—-decided to keep destroying his legacy by hammering Hillary harder than he has in the past. He even said she was not “qualified” to be president, even though everybody pretty…
Defending Obama’s Foreign Policy
One of the things most often criticzed about the Obama presidency is his foreign policy. Even some of his strongest supporters offer up a vague mea culpa that mistakes were made and the half-hearted defense that Obama is “better than Bush.” Well I’d say that’s an understatement for the ages. Obama is not merely “better…
Is the Ted Cruz Sex Scandal Real?
I’ve been noticing two big stories in the last week: Ted Cruz’s growing sex scandal and the media’s outright refusal to talk about it. A few people I know have even said “There’s a Ted Cruz sex scandal?” And these are people that regularly watch the news. For those that don’t know—-and given the media’s…
Will the Wisconsin Primary Continue the Midwest’s Irrelevance?
In the unpredictable roller-coaster ride that is the 2016 Presidential election we’ve seen many things: a Socialist independent pretending to be a Democrat, a closet-Democrat pretending to be a Republican nationalist, and a Canadian-Christian theocrat pretending to be a strict constitutionalist. Still, there’s one thing 2016 has made very, very clear: the Midwest is now…
How Low Oil Prices are Undoing America’s Last Major Enemies
Later this week, I’ll write an article defending “The Obama Doctrine” and really defending the entire Obama presidency’s amazing foreign policy work, that receives too little attention. For now, I’d like to draw attention to an under-reported story in our media: how low oil prices are unraveling America’s last major enemies. We’ve seen dozens of…