Dick Polman
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‘Under God’s authority’: Where theocracy meets hypocrisy
Let’s return to Rowan County, Kentucky, where public servant Kim Davis is still laboring under the theocratic delusion that she can ...
10 years ago
Obama haters’ heads detonate over DenaliGate
What could be more entertaining, on a hot summer day, than revisiting the American idiocracy, which is obsessed at the moment with the pr ...
10 years ago
Is the Democratic debate calendar rigged for Hillary?
My question: Has the Democratic debate calendar been rigged for the benefit of Hillary Clinton? My answer: Of course it has. ...
10 years ago
Katrina and the lessons of incompetent crony governance
The 10th anniversary of Katrina gives us the perfect opportunity to revisit George W. Bush’s most incompetent screwup (second only ...
10 years ago
Gun murder capital of the western world, rinse and repeat
I almost wish that Twitter and Facebook hadn’t scrubbed Vester Lee Flanagan’s snuff video. Maybe it should be r ...
10 years ago
Jeb gives Asian Americans another reason to spurn the GOP
The Yiddish language has the perfect slang word to describe Jeb Bush. He is a schlemeil ...
10 years ago
Probing the minds of the Trumpitistas
If you’re struggling to fathom why so many supposedly sane fellow Americans are besotted with Donald Trump, his Friday night rally ...
10 years ago
Trump’s hate rhetoric has consequences
This was bound to happen: According to police in Boston, two white guys beat the crap out of a homeless Mexican. They also smacked ...
10 years ago
Obamacare is still the GOP’s great white whale
Some of us remember Moby Dick. In Melville’s classic novel, monomaniacal Captain Ahab was so obsessed with killing th ...
10 years ago
Planned Parenthood and the Queen of Hearts
Everyone has a beef about “the media,” and here’s mine: We typically highlight accusations of wrongdoing, but we typica ...
10 years ago
Trump’s clown car express: Ending birthright citizenship
Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled immigration plan is predictably ridiculous – shock jockette Ann Coulter calls it “the gre ...
10 years ago