by Peter Simon | Sep 19, 2016 | Politics |
Robert Gates, who has served under eight Presidents and been Defense Secretary under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is a strange guy. He has gored many of his Presidential employers with nasty reviews, and most recently added Hillary Clinton to the hit list in a...
by Peter Simon | Aug 15, 2016 | Politics |
The weeks that followed the end of the Democratic Convention have been marked by a drop in poll numbers for Donald Trump, not to mention a towering, near-monolithic avalanche of media abuse directed at the candidate. Seeded among the venom has been the repeated claim...
by Peter Simon | Aug 4, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
We are now entering Week Three of massive media outrage involving Khizr Khan, a Muslim attorney whose son, Humayun, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Both Khans, native to Pakistan, arrived in the United States in 1980. The son went into the military. The father went to...
by Peter Simon | Jul 21, 2016 | Politics |
CNN, of all people, summarized Day Three of the Republican Convention perfectly: “Ted Cruz stole the show, and then Donald Trump stole it right back.” Of course, it’s beyond CNN to give Trump kudos for the spectacular turnaround; it’s not called the Clinton News...
by Peter Simon | Jul 20, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
Day Two of the Republican National Convention opened (in the world of journalism, at least) with apocalyptic discussions of one of the weightiest and most crucial political topics of the day — did two or three sentences from Melania Trump’s remarks the day before too...
by Peter Simon | Jul 19, 2016 | Culture, Politics |
Any week of a Republican National Convention can be expected to be a week of Republicans comparing the presumptive nominee to the descent of the Messiah. This is not that sort of week, for the nominee in question is Donald Trump, breaker of norms, nationalist...
