Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Welcome to Well, Actually where I surface the opinions you’re probably not reading about a news event that’s filling your social media feeds. This week, the candidacy of Donald Trump. — To begin this exercise I need you, dear reader, to reach deep inside and pull out your reserve empathy supplies. For the next 10…
The year 2000 was a good time to be an Arab-American Republican. For the first time in the community’s history, a presidential candidate had come courting. Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third…
Friends of Juanita Broaddrick protest on the sidewalk in front of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate campaign headquarters in New York, Aug. 19, 2000. Photo via AP BuzzFeed’s Katie J.M. Baker just published an excellent, nuanced and confounding profile of Juanita Broaddrick, the 73-year-old Arkansas woman who has said for years that Bill Clinton raped her….
Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can’t win in November. Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another…
For the first time in the last 15 years, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has not only failed to mention that he was the New York City Mayor during 9/11—he appears to have forgotten that 9/11 happened altogether. Did we collectively quantum leap into a warped alternate dimension? Giuliani, who’s also known in…
Don’t stop thinkin’ about the ’90s Buzzfeed has a long, interesting interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the woman who says Bill Clinton raped her in an Arkansas hotel room almost 40 years ago. Maybe this case has always bugged you too, because we are supposed to believe women when it comes to rape. (For the record,…
.row start .columns start .row end .columns end .row end BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutz August 15, 2016 1:37 pm Hillary Clinton almost took a spill on Monday as she stepped down from the podium to make way for Vice President Joe Biden during their joint campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden caught her arm,…
Men got haircuts and shaved their beards. Women lit up cigarettes and burned their niqabs. Residents of Manbij, Syria, who had lived under the Islamic State for nearly two years, came out onto the streets and celebrated, shedding tears of joy. “May God destroy them. They slaughtered us,” a young man shouted in a square…
In the first week of August, just as Hillary Clinton began to pull ahead significantly in the polls, Donald Trump prophylactically claimed that the only way he will lose in November is if Clinton cheats her way to victory. “I’m telling you, November 8, we’d better be careful, because that election is going to be…
Donald Trump, a scabies outbreak in your freshman dormitory, has done very little to prepare for a win—like running ads or get-out-the-vote operations, for example, or learning which U.S. president invaded Afghanistan—but he has done quite a bit to prepare for his loss, recently telling CNBC that he would take a “nice long vacation” if…