The pay-offs almost no one talks about

           Unsurprisingly, the chatter is dense and immense about how barely ordinary children of celebrity parents managed to get into prestige universities with winks, nods and wads of green.             These are terrible injustices considering who didn’t get admitted.             But let’s not belabor how Jared Kushner got into Harvard or…

What percent of Cohen’s testimony don’t you believe?

            “Well, I don’t believe him.”             “Well, what part don’t you believe?”             What we hear from Trump lock-steppers about Michael Cohen reminds me of what the same people said when Michael Moore came out with his explosive “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the lie-filled build-up to invading Iraq.             The film has…

Capricious, reckless and illegal

            It took till almost after lunchtime, Day 1 of this reign, for fact-checkers to start losing track of the torrent of lies flowing from President Donald Trump’s lips.             Similarly, one loses track of the progression of his policies that judges have declared half-cocked, presumptive and unconstitutional.             The…