by Peter Simon | Dec 10, 2017 | Culture, Politics |
Claire Berlinski, a freelance journalist working in Paris, has written a thoughtful and well-written piece in The American Interest called The Warlock Hunt, on the recent cataract of sexual harassment accusations currently roiling the political landscape. The first...
by Peter Simon | May 15, 2017 | Culture, Ephemera, Politics |
Andrew Sullivan soiled himself awhile ago writing a dread harbinger of journalistic things to come in the form of a gargantuan article for New York Magazine. Not that it was a mediocre performance. Rhetorically, it was stellar. The political blogging icon lashed into...
by Peter Simon | Apr 8, 2017 | Ideology, Politics |
I must say, President Trump knows how to make life interesting, doesn’t he? Around nine in the evening on April sixth, I started getting a cataract of emails from liberal friends, emails rippling with CAPS and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!! about Trump bombing Syria, Trump...
by Peter Simon | Apr 6, 2017 | Politics |
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Krystof indulged in a bit of rank heresy this morning, suggesting in a short piece that perhaps the time had come for The Resistance to offer an olive branch and — gasp! — be nice to Trump voters. Not make peace...
by Peter Simon | Feb 27, 2017 | Culture, Politics |
After a month of being insulted morning, noon and night by the American press, President Donald J. Trump celebrated his first month in office by holding a press conference in which he gave back as good as he got. The press scurried to their word processors to report...
by Peter Simon | Jan 28, 2017 | Politics |
What is Trump going to replace Obamacare with? Speculation is rife, and Trump’s many foes are cackling. True, even Bill Clinton, as the height of his wife’s campaign, called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world…” But calling it...
