Donald Trump, Kim Davis and Cook Out: because the Constitution guarantees redeemed sinners the right to fast food. First, the headline: ‘Hell No!’ Cashier refuses to serve Trump backers Shannon Riggs and her cousins were famished after attending a Donald Trump rally last week in Richmond, Va., so they decided to drop by Cook Out – a regional restaurant chain known for
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Not everybody loved The Greatest: what Muhammad Ali meant to one racist Southern kid That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. – Hunter S. Thompson
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This is the most important question Democrats face in 2016, and perhaps in our lifetimes. I recently had dinner with a woman who plans to vote for Donald Trump, and the conversation was interesting for a number of reasons, not least of which was its implications for the Clinton campaign. Betty (not her real name) is in her 70s and is
Read moreOn infrastructure and immigration, half measures and vested interests dominate Hillary’s planning. Duh. There’s news about what would-be President Hillary Clinton has planned for her first 100 days in office. Pending details, there are things to be cautiously optimistic about. A Clinton aide indicated today that within her first 100 days in office, the likely Democratic nominee would send Congress a
Read moreConventional wisdom says only Clinton can beat Trump. All the polling data says otherwise. I keep being told that I have to get behind Hillary Clinton because she’s the only one who can beat Trump in November. That would be a more compelling argument if there were any evidence that it’s actually true. Instead, every single poll I have seen shows the
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This is what passes for reason inside the muted corridors of serious establishment “journalism.” Flipping through the morning’s news and I came across this: I really know dick about Collum Borchers (or the editors who write his headlines), but a quick look at his archive page suggests a faint whiff of Beltway/Village wankery.
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Sweeping misogyny charges by Clinton supporters are insulting, corrosive, patronizing and counter-productive. An all-too-common theme we hear from supporters of Hillary Clinton is that the opposition to her results from misogyny. Sometimes we’re told this in just those words, and other times the charge masquerades behind sentiments that are intended to read as more affirming, like we see in the
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PayPal, the NBA and Bruce Springsteen are well-intentioned, but they’re punishing the wrong people. I have a solution. By now you know all about North Carolina’s appalling HB2 – “the bathroom law” – which seeks to keep transgendered people out of the wrong restroom even though in all of history they have committed fewer crimes in bathrooms than Republican legislators.
Read moreWe’ve had two decades to get to know former First Lady, former Senator and former Secretary Clinton. We look at that history and we understand something you don’t: she isn’t one of us. First, a caveat: this article is not about all Clinton voters. Many of you support her candidacy for reasons I don’t agree with, but you do so in good
Read moreQ: What’s the Mexican word for “heat”? A: El heat. Yes, the La NBA is back with its annual Latin Heritage promotion, where it pays tribute to the league’s Latino fans by replacing the English team names on uniforms with their Mexican equivalents. Examples: As you can see, it’s easy to speak Mexican.
Read more2016 is a watershed moment. If November features Clinton vs Trump, the Republicans win regardless of how the election turns out. It’s the economy, stupid. Big thanks to our friend Rich James for passing along this analysis in today’s Atlantic. (Pardon the longish snip here – it’s important.) But on issue after issue, Trump vows to use government as a tool to
Read moreLast night a topic in the GOP debate was how big Donald Trump’s dick is. (The over/under line in Vegas is 1½ inches. Erect.) Normally this is where somebody says something like “wow, they’ve really hit rock bottom this time” or “damn it can’t get any worse than that.” But this is the modern Republican Party. Of course it can get worse,
Read moreMatt Grimm offers up a new campaign anthem. Line of the year: “What if ideas were the only things too big to fail?”
Read moreDear everybody freaking out because some people think the Bernie Sanders economic plan can’t pay for itself. Three things: 1) You can’t work with recent historical data as your assumption because the Sanders approach throws it out and works off different assumptions entirely. 2) Okay, okay. That’s true but I don’t have the time to explain why in detail. So let’s go
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These things are not mutually exclusive. I want to show you two pictures – ones you may have seen recently – and ask you a simple question: what is being communicated? What are the subject, the photographer and the publisher saying to you?
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