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Follow the bouncing polls, if you can bear it
Guess what, folks. Americans really dug Donald Trump’s fearfest. That’s likely to shock those of you who watched the R ...
9 years ago
Remember what Will Rogers said about Democrats
Now that Russian hackers working for the Trump-Putin ticket have claimed their first Democratic scalp, tens of millions of Americans are ...
9 years ago
Trump triumphant: The fact-free marketing of fear
CLEVELAND — I knew it would be a long night, a brutish assault on one’s cognitive intelligence, when Donald Trump launched his ac ...
9 years ago
Donald Trump is soft on international security
CLEVELAND — Imagine how Donald Trump’s acolytes would react if Hillary Clinton said that America need not fulfill its NATO duty t ...
9 years ago
More disunity drama: Cruz tells Trump to buzz off
CLEVELAND — Tonight, here at the heart of dysfunction junction, Ted Cruz basically told Donald Trump to kiss his rump. There is ...
9 years ago
Mitch McConnell tells the Trumpers that he’s really not so bad
Mitch McConnell said something important last night. I know that sentence isn’t likely to entertain or titillate — how oft ...
9 years ago
Chris Christie and the orchestration of Hillary hatred
CLEVELAND — I get why Republicans are so determined to savage Hillary Clinton, to paint her as the apotheosis of evil. They’re no ...
9 years ago
Another Trump message: Undocumented immigrants are here to kill you
CLEVELAND – Amidst all the action on the Republican stage last night — Benghazi, B-celebrity speeches, Rudy Giuliani’s scre ...
9 years ago
Melania, Michelle, and the sincerest form of flattery
CLEVELAND – At breakfast this morning, Pennsylvania Republican chairman Rob Gleason groused, “The media is digging around on ...
9 years ago
Disunity update: ‘They act like fascists’
CLEVELAND — So I was walking in a corridor at the Quicken Loans Arena late yesterday afternoon, keeping an ear cocked toward the ambien ...
9 years ago
Paul Ryan plays footsie with the T-word
Paul Ryan addressed the Pennsylvania delegation at breakfast today. Care to guess how long it took him to say the word ...
9 years ago
The fig leaf of faux Republican unity
CLEVELAND — At first glance, this looks like any other 21st century political convention. Fresh-faced city volunteers greet you with sm ...
9 years ago