Dick Polman
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Goodbye, Benghazi sleuths. Take your tinfoil hats.
To quote poet T. S. Eliot, the House Select Committee on Benghazi finally folded its tent yesterday – “not with a bang, but a ...
10 years ago
Big win for abortion rights, big loss for Republican con artists
What a kick it was yesterday to see the Supreme Court put the kibosh on one of the GOP’s most notorious scams. We all know t ...
10 years ago
Donald Trump’s top fixer, annotated
Donald Trump’s top guy, Paul Manafort, surfaced yesterday on “Meet the Press” and ...
10 years ago
Is Brexit a harbinger of Trumpism?
With apologies to the climactic song in “Les Miserables,” here are the self-destructive Brits who voted yesterday to exit the ...
10 years ago
Once again, John Lewis walks with the wind
John Lewis has long defied business as usual. He braved white hatred in 1960 when he sat at a segregated lunch counter in Nashville. He w ...
10 years ago
His latest lie: ‘We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion’
Nothing — not even the revelation that his campaign is virtually broke, and that the top House Republican is ...
10 years ago
Can somebody spare The Donald a dime?
The new campaign contribution stats — the money that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have raised for their respective races — were r ...
10 years ago
Can Republican delegates cancel their freak show?
Moments after the city of Cleveland ended its 52-year championship drought, I half expected that Donald Trump would tap on Twitter: ...
10 years ago
Chris Murphy’s call to conscience
In a sane and humane America – the one that doesn’t exist – we’d bar suspected terrorists from buying guns, we ...
10 years ago
You know that nutjob you always see on the street, speed-rapping to himself about God knows w ...
10 years ago
Trump mimes Joe McCarthy, Republicans writhe anew
Here’s the thing about Joe McCarthy. The infamous ’50s demagogue, who wrecked careers and ruined lives with his baseless accu ...
10 years ago
Orlando aftermath: 3 true words that Republicans refuse to utter
Let’s flag some Republican statements about the Orlando massacre. See if you can spot what’s missing. House Speaker Pa ...
10 years ago