Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Credit Ji Lee “Everybody does it,” is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts. A televised town…
Screenshot/YouTubeGOP frontrunner Donald Trump continued his tirade against fellow candidate Marco Rubio’s previous episodes involving sweat and dry mouth. During a Friday rally, he pulled out a bottle of water from his podium and exclaimed “It’s Marco!” The bit was clearly in reference to Rubio’s 2013 State of the Union response where he stopped mid-speech…
2016 Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon, from left, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc., Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and John Kasich, governor of Ohio, participate in the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the…
Photo Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump at the Republican debate in New Hampshire on Feb. 6.Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey endorsed Donald J. Trump on Friday, a major turn in a wild race and one that gives the New York businessman a major boost as he heads…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Flas.) speaks during a rally on Friday in Dallas. (Brandon Wade/AP) DALLAS — For the first eight minutes of his final pre-Super Tuesday rally in Texas, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ditched one of the tightest stump speeches in politics and hurled a luxury tower’s worth of kitchen sinks at Donald Trump. He mocked his…
In the 90s, before Hillary Clinton was taking private meetings with Deray McKesson and campaigning on promises to end mass incarceration and reform mandatory minimums, she was a little less enlightened, shall we say, on issues around race and criminal justice. At a speech last night, two Black Lives Matter activists took her to task…
Wolf Blitzer at CNN’s GOP debate at the University of Houston on Feb. 25, 2016 in Houston, Texas.Michael Ciaglo–Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump’s constant refrain about American decline, which has been heard throughout this campaign season, had an ironic undertone when uttered at Thursday night’s debate on CNN. Other than Trump’s rise, there is no…
It’s an open secret that I’m legally and for all practical purposes deaf, and watch Fox News every day with the closed captioning on, so as I was covering tonight’s Republican debate, I watched as I always do — and about two hours into it, I was rewarded for my deafness as the person responsible…
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a rally after the Nevada Republican caucuses in Las Vegas on Feb. 23. (David Becker/Reuters) The Internet likes to make jokes. For all of the countless millions of dollars invested by the government, businesses and individuals the world over, one of the main things for which a decent percentage…
