As Tim Murphy observed in piece in Mother Jones, Hillary Clinton’s appearance before the Benghazi Committee lasted, among other things, longer than the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the lifespan of a female mayfly, and, more onerously, the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy on screen. And I couldn’t even get through “The Fellowship of the…
Out of the murky depths of Donald Trump’s ego emerges something approximating a public policy position – or at least one that doesn’t involve walls or deportations. We speak of actual fiscal policy. And here’s the thing: Of those details that aren’t too vague to ascertain, factcheck.org says Trump’s plan would blow up the federal…
Planned Parenthood couldn’t have gotten better publicity if it paid for it. On TV: a telegenic, smart and calm executive pushed, goaded and constantly interrupted by bulldozers in suits. In print: good information about what Planned Parenthood does, unfiltered by anti-abortion propagandists. On Page 1 of the Denver Post, for instance, a pie chart shows…
A metaphor for a nation: Terrified students hustle across a school parking lot, their hands in the air. It happened the other day at Umpqua Community College in Oregon: hands in the air. It happened at Columbine High School. It happened at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois and Central Arkansas. It has happened at 142 schools…