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 ...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
Donald Trump’s top fixer, annotated
Donald Trump’s top guy, Paul Manafort, surfaced yesterday on “Meet the Press” and ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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: ...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
You know that nutjob you always see on the street, speed-rapping to himself about God knows w ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 years ago