The headline said, “Echoes of Vietnam in Trump’s about-face on Afghanistan.” Said my wife, “He’d have to have a face for that to happen.” Yep. Here was a guy who in 2013 tweeted that U.S. involvement there was “a complete waste.” Now he says it’s worth thousands more American troops. He’s just a bundle of…
Adventures in spinelessness: The year Jesse Owens burned bright under Nazism’s glare, a grave injustice was obscured beneath the Olympic flame. Avery Brundage, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, held out two American Jewish sprinters from the 1936 Games so as not to anger Adolph Hitler should Jews mount the medal stand. Why? Simple. Brundage…
Where was Sebastian Gorka to set us straight? When a Nazi sympathizer ran down people protesting a “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia, why didn’t the Trump administration have Gorka speak for it like he did when a bomb destroyed a mosque in Bloomington, Minn.? At that time, Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, cautioned…
Historians will note how Donald Trump used social media to say what he wanted — unfiltered by media gatekeepers. Let history note, however, that the tables have turned. With so many insiders so willing to leak what they know, Americans are getting boatloads of damning information — unfiltered by Trump. Right now Trump wants us…
Where does one begin? Maybe with a sneeringly political speech – that part of it which was remotely coherent — to captive Boy Scouts. (Donald Trump gauged crowd size as a personal tribute. No, Sir. Big numbers can be anticipated at a national jamboree.) Maybe with a cross-eyed game of…