Hillary would not be pilloried

   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…

That voodoo that they do so well

        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…

Name game that stains the land

“Ahmed” is every bit as American as “Joe.” “Hussein” is every bit as American as “Shaughnessy” or "Flannery" or "McGill." Need this be said? Now, of those bigots who consider Irish-Americans to be lesser forms of Americans: They are oafs and nincompoops. Worse, they are un-American. Irish-haters hate America. Oh, wait; you were expecting this…