One of the most striking anecdotes of the 2016 presidential campaign was the large number of ancestrally Republican newspapers who refused to endorse Donald Trump. In many cases, they broke decades-long traditions to either endorse...
One of the funniest moments of the 2016 campaign came when Donald Trump flew to Scotland to celebrate the grand re-opening of the historic Turnberry golf resort, which he'd bought three years earlier.
The ceremony took...
It's not news that Donald Trump has forced a number of sane Republicans out of the GOP--and in some cases, pushed them all the way into the arms of the Democrats. But it's not every...
One of the most nauseating moments of 2017 has been the religious right's continued support for Donald Trump even in the face of the almost daily outrages coming from this White House. Equally nauseating has...
When Donald Trump declared that any NFL player who took a knee during the national anthem was a "son of a bitch," he didn't just succeed in angering virtually every player in the NFL. He...
It's been said that kids can always sniff out someone trying to pull a fast one. One of the most beautiful examples of this in recent memory comes from Broomfield, Colorado; a suburb of Denver....
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump's attempt to bully the NFL into submission failed spectacularly, he suffered an even more crushing defeat. The Republican attempt to ram a repeal of the Affordable Care Act...
If Donald Trump thought that he could cow the NFL into submission by demanding that any players who kneel during the national anthem be fired, he was sadly mistaken. Sunday saw dozens of players openly...
Donald Trump's attempt to bully NFL owners into unloading players who kneel during the national anthem is failing, and failing bigly. Sunday's games saw dozens of players kneel and link arms during the playing of...
The Republicans' hopes of repealing the Affordable Care Act this year suffered a potentially fatal blow on Friday afternoon, when Senator John McCain announced he would oppose a last-ditch effort to ram a repeal measure...
A lot of religious right leaders have remained loyal to Donald Trump in the face of the almost daily outrages from his administration. That includes perhaps the biggest outrage of all that isn't Russia-related--his equivocating stand...
Lately, whenever we see tragedy in this country, it's only a matter of time before one or more religious right personalities stick their feet in their mouths and jam them in deep. Last weekend's carnage in Charlottesville,...
In a sane world, Donald Trump's presidency would have effectively ended on Tuesday. He not only reverted to his outrageous initial line on the nastiness in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend--that "both sides" were responsible--but inexplicably...
One of the worst moments in the aftermath of last weekend's horrific events in Charlottesville, Virginia came on Sunday morning. Daily Stormer, one of the most--if not the most--rabidly neo-Nazi sites on the Internet, got the...
Donald Trump has had countless chances to look and sound presidential--and has blown nearly all of them, bigly. He added another to the list when he claimed that "many sides" were responsible for the violence...
One of the loudest and most obnoxious on-air supporters of Donald Trump finally went too far. Hours after CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord got the bright idea to tweet a Nazi slogan at a liberal media...
Last week, Joe Scarborough dropped by "The Late Show" to announce that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent. He said that he'd been driven out by both Donald Trump and Republicans'...
History was made at the Walt Disney Concert Hall last week. The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, otherwise known as the GMCLA performed along with representatives from many faiths. The second act was opened by...
A lot of churches in the Bible Belt have taken to wrapping themselves in the American flag. It's a natural extension of the line that this country is supposedly a Christian nation. But June 25's...
On paper, the nation's late-night comedians should be sitting pretty with Donald Trump in the White House. After all, virtually the only thing that makes Trump even remotely bearable is seeing him sent up before...
