Opinion Category: News

In a Rose Garden address this morning President Trump told the nation he will be signing the bipartisan funding bill Congress is delivering later today to keep the government open and he is declaring a national emergency to redirect previously appropriated money to build his wall. Congress’ funding bill provides $1.375 billion in funding for […]

Two freshman House Democrats are taking up a lot of air in the room. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are not just the latest foils in the President’s 2020 reelection bid but are getting serious pushback from Dems and the GOP for their positions against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its influence in Washington. Tlaibm […]

President Trump delivered the State of the Union address Tuesday night which contained a bit of everything. Rehashes, fact stretching, sketchy numbers, lofty policy and humanitarian goals, a call for bipartisanship, and a solid shout out to the wave of new women in Congress. The speech is also treading slightly above water in Twitter at […]

Ok, the game itself is not always a crowd pleaser but Super Bowl ads have always been the been the go to for Monday post-game office chatter. Except maybe for this Monday. The game was the lowest scoring in history and that malaise seemed to have spilled over to social’s reaction to the ads which […]

There’s no way around it, Dems are freaking and the GOP is salivating over the notion of Howard Schultz running as an Independent in the 2020 President race. We’ve seen this script before and it doesn’t end well for the opposition. Ask Al Gore what he thinks about Ralph Nadar, or George H.W. Bush about […]

Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the masses tossed out the monarchy with the French Revolution. Aside from being a precipitating factor in dethroning French royalty she is perhaps best tied to telling her bread starved citizenry “Let them eat cake.” While there is question as to whether the Queen actually made […]

The Academy Award nominations were released and for the most part people seem not overly upset with the nominees. Engineered, woke or luck? Who knows, but the relative quiet is a change from recent years. Nominees for Best Actress provide some snubs but for the most part seem to have gotten it right. While the […]

The AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs was a classic nail biter pitting Tom Brady’s experience against Patrick Mahomes’ raw talent and youthful grit. The Pats’ 37 – 31 overtime victory in a frigid Foxborough, MA was no walk in the park for the Patriots. Brady and the […]

Gillette launched its Super Bowl ad early this year in an attempt to rise about the clutter, but seems to have made a mess of things. The shaving giant’s ad embraces the #MeToo movement by stomping on the masculine stereotype of sexual harassment, mansplaining, and boys will be boys, depicting men as potential behavioral change […]

Hey, it’s politics so just about no one gets above breakeven, especially if they have an opinion. And newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has plenty of them. AOC is not shy about taking on anyone who makes a stink-eyed quip about her irrespective of party, or about championing Progressive causes about which she is passionate. […]

The government shutdown continues. Not used to hearing “no” the President is threatening to stretch the Constitution with a declaration of emergency on the souther border. Both the President and Speaker Pelosi have dug in their heels over the wall forcing just about everyone else to take sides. Twitter too has taken sides and views […]

The President knows the spending bill is his best last best chance to deliver on his campaign promise to build a continuous wall along our souther border. He may also think failure to deliver is an existential threat to his base and his reelection bid. In an effort to take his case to the people […]

President Trump is riling up his base again ahead of the midterms by floating the idea of an executive order ditching birthright citizenship here in the US. Specifically, POTUS wants to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to noncitizen parents. The President floated the idea in an interview with Axios. The […]

Ever feel like you are talking to an empty room? According to some Twitter users, that has been their experience. Conservatives are accusing the social media platform of placing them under a “shadow ban,” preventing others from seeing their posts and content but not letting those banned know. Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel and Donald […]

America’s worst spin artist, Rudy Giuliani, took his media tour as President Trump’s attorney to a new level of ridiculousness over the weekend. In a conversation with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Giuliani said that he didn’t want Trump to testify in the Mueller investigation because POTUS could perjure himself — not by […]

As President Trump endlessly tweets about the Mueller investigation and onetime ally Omarosa Manigault Newman and her book, his Administration has come up with a new tactic for punishing critics: revoking the security clearances of those who are critical of POTUS. The first person to go was former CIA Director John Brennan. In response, a […]

Fad diets have come a long way since Atkins and Paleo. The latest trimming trend sweeping the world is intermittent fasting, in which adherents either fast for one day regularly or eat only during restricted hours. Recent studies suggest that fasting can help people lose weight, but others have found serious reasons to be skeptical. […]

While President Donald Trump’s supporters have rallied around his mission to “Make America Great Again,” many progressives have decided that goal is unrealistic. Some allege that America was never all that great because of its legacy of slavery and imperialism, among other injustices. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is discovering that whatever the truth is, […]

Try as they might, not every NFL team is equipped with an Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady at quarterback. In fact, a fair number of teams are trotting out unproven or over-the-hill options and hoping for the best. Unsurprisingly, there aren’t too many Super Bowl contenders from that list. Perhaps the only exception is Kansas […]

The election of President Trump has exposed the frailty of the Democratic Party, which is the minority in both the House and the Senate and controls just 16 governorships nationwide. But poll after poll in recent months has pointed to the potential for a “blue wave” this November, with Dems easily taking back the House […]

Public urination can land you in jail in most of the developed world, or at least earn you a heavy fine. Parisians, however, have forced officials to be more lenient. But letting nature take its course wherever has become so common that the City of Lights is installing exposed, open-air urinals. The urinals stand out […]

After a long career raising awareness about “frogs turning gay” and “sodium fluoridated water” though his Infowars brand, alt-right provocateur Alex Jones is on the ropes. On Aug. 6, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify all removed content by Jones, citing policy violations. Vimeo, Pinterest, and even LinkedIn quickly followed suit. Jones has previously accused Muslim […]

Viewers are now five episodes into Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest effort, Who Is America? The Showtime original, which features Cohen assuming the roles of an ever-increasing number of oddball characters, has managed to book huge guests, including former Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Trump campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), disgraced Alabama politician Roy […]

President Donald Trump may be the biggest reality television star in Washington, but until earlier this year, he was not the only one. Omarosa, who appeared as a contestant in The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice, served as Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison at the White House. She left in January, […]

It’s been a while since acclaimed director Spike Lee has put out a genuine hit, but with BlacKkKlansman, he’s firmly back in the spotlight. As Variety notes, the film, which debuted on Friday, “delivered Spike Lee’s best opening in over a decade.” BlackKkKlansman finished fifth at the box office over the weekend, bringing in close […]

It’s been a year since the murder of Heather Heyer, a counter-protestor who was allegedly killed by a neo-Nazi during a rally of racists in Charlottesville, Va. In the ensuing weeks and months, many thought that President Trump repeatedly bungled his response to that violence, famously saying there were “very fine people on both sides” […]

Conventional wisdom about cryptocurrencies has long held that Bitcoin, the original digital currency, is king of the market. But since last year’s meteoric rise and fall of Bitcoin prices left many would-be investors high and dry, a rival cryptocurrency is angling to take Bitcoin’s crown. That would be Ethereum, which developers have said is superior […]

In the political wars, few battlegrounds are as reliably raw and brutal as Twitter. The Left and Right duke it out daily via sound byte and meme, commenting under posts by such combatants as Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, and President Trump. However, one section of Twitter has set aside national politics and dank memes […]

Neither the Houston Texans nor the San Francisco 49ers was very good last NFL season. The Texans finished 4-12; the 49ers were 6-10. But both teams got a tantalizing jolt from their young quarterbacks — Deshaun Watson in Houston, and Jimmy Garoppolo in the Bay Area. Watson, a first-round pick from Clemson, guided his squad […]

Back in May, President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal for reasons difficult to pinpoint other than that the pact was seen by many as a breakthrough by the Obama Administration. Since then, Trump & Co. have upped the wartime rhetoric aimed at Tehran, and the President recently tweeted an all-caps warning to […]

While Israel may have the Star of David on its flag, any designation of “Jewish country” was entirely unofficial until just last month. But on July 19 the Israeli Knesset passed a law declaring the country as the official nation-state of the Jewish People. Despite being largely symbolic, the law drew opposition worldwide, with even […]

Donald Trump’s Russian connections have not gone unnoticed by America, but it’s not just the President in the hot seat. These days even his closest family members are under scrutiny. Donald Trump Jr. could be in legal trouble soon if prosecutors can prove that he agreed to an criminal activity at a clandestine meeting with […]

Last Friday, President Trump couldn’t help but call out an interview with CNN host Don Lemon and NBA superstar LeBron James in which James said he would never sit face-to-face with the current Commander-in-Chief. Trump—who apparently doesn’t have anything better to do— tweeted: “Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don […]

The saga of President Donald Trump’s trade war continued this week with allies in the steel industry clapping back against calls from American companies for exemptions to stiff metal tariffs. The Commerce Dept. has the authority to grant such exemptions, but companies are allowed to file formal objections, as Charlotte-based Nucor and Pittsburgh-based United States […]

“Fortnite: Battle Royale” is taking over the gaming world. It’s been released on every major gaming console (with cross-platform support except on the PlayStation 4), in addition to its accessibility on PCs, Macs, iPhones, and—very soon—Android phones. Already, more than 125 million people around the globe have taken part in the “Fortnite” phenomenon, and the […]