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Politics This French Philosopher Is The Only One Who Can Explain The Donald Trump Phenomenon by Judd Legum Sep 14, 2015 8:40am Donald Trump has political pundits stumped. They’ve been predicting his imminent downfall for months. Every “gaffe” that was supposed to destroy his support has only made him stronger. “DON VOYAGE: Trump Toast…
The nation was once again gripped by gun violence on Friday after a gunman identified by authorities as Robert Lewis Dear Jr. stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing two civilians and one police officer and injuring nine others. It is just the latest in a year of more-than-daily mass shootings in America. In fact,…
What happens if the press takes a stand on the truth — and no one cares? Reuters Critics have for many years inveighed against “false equivalence” or “false balance” in the mainstream press. This long crusade has finally achieved its grail, or at least a version of it: In this campaign season, political reporters have…
He’s crying because he’s a LOSER. The David Vitter Era, if there ever was such a thing, is over. The rightwing senator from Louisiana was flushed away like so much doody in the state’s runoff election for Governor Saturday, losing to Democrat John Bel Edwards by a ten-point margin, which for a Democrat in a…
By now, you’ve heard the news. A large group of American politicians don’t want Syrian refugees coming into the country. Especially if they are Muslim. But with Thanksgiving upon us, and remembering that one time a bunch of Native Americans accepted and fed a bunch of refugees from across the pond who were persecuted for…
Submitted by Justin King via The Fifth Column, Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it. The run up to overthrowing President Assad of Syria was occurring before The Fifth Column existed. I covered it when I wrote daily…
The New York Times this morning has an op-ed by Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan, whom I regard as one of the world’s best television journalists. Its primary point is one that has been recently promoted by others such as MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: namely, that in the wake of 9/11, George W. Bush diligently avoided,…
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Donald Trump is not alone on his campaign in drawing attention to the physical condition of others. | AP Photo New York Times slams Trump’s mocking of reporter as ‘outrageous’ By Ben Schreckinger 11/25/15 05:58 PM EST Updated 11/25/15 08:55 PM EST Donald Trump has added a new item to his growing list of presidential…
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers was on fire Tuesday night when he lit up Donald Trump for spending the weekend lying to justify his racism and Islamophobia. Trump swears that he saw Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on 9/11, a claim that Meyers says has been universally debunked. “But even when he was confronted about…