Opinion Category: News

Lebron James has stepped into the imbroglio caused by Houston Rocket’s general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting the Hong Kong protesters. James called Morey’s tweet “misinformed” as part of his support for towing the Chinese line and staying away from the third rail of the Hong Kong protests. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver initially took a […]

While polls put Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Yang barely on the scale, let alone tipping it, Twitter has a much different opinion. Over the last two weeks @AndrewYang tops a comparison of the Dems headed for the debate stage next week, pulling an impressive 74 percent positives with very solid volumes of opinions. Following up […]

Former one term Congressman Joe Walsh is going after The Big Dog, Donald Trump for the GOP 2020 Presidential nomination. Walsh cut his political teeth riding into Congress on the Tea Party coattails and was a poster boy for the disruptive Republican movement. Walsh was known for aggressively going after President Obama and adopting the […]

Robert Mueller may not care to be a political pawn, however, he does get animated over his findings the Russians aggressively interfered in our 2016 election, including trying to hack into the voting systems of every state, and that they are already hard at it again for 2020. In response, the House recently passed legislation […]

The much anticipated House hearings with Robert Mueller were held on Wednesday to much fanfare and little flame fanning. The Dems did score some useful sound bites around no exoneration of the Presdient and a spanking the Trump campaign received from Mueller over its involvement with Russia and support for Wikileaks, but for the most […]

President Trump took to Twitter Sunday as he often does but this time launched one of his more racists tweets directed at four freshmen members of Congress of color known as The Squad. While the President’s tweets often spark controversy, Sunday’s attack on Congresswomen Ocasio Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib pushed the bounds of fact […]

Vice President Mike Pence toured an immigrant detention facility in McAllen, Texas on Friday observing firsthand the overcrowding and squalid conditions. Calling almost 400 caged men, sleeping on concrete floors in the Texas summer heat who have not showered in as many as 40 days “tough stuff”, the VP went on the offensive blaming Congress […]

President Trump’s July 4th Salute to America was intended to show up the great military parades of Europe and sketchy autocrats across the globe but missed its target according to social media. The event was chided by some as politicizing the celebration of American independence, which has traditionally been a political DMZ, and for wasting […]

The first of two first round debates for the Democratic Presidential candidates was held last night in Florida. Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, Tim Ryan, John Delaney, Bill DeBlasio and Jay Inslee all took to the very civilized stage and kept more or less to the issues while […]

President Trump announced his reelection, we’re closing in on the first set of Democratic debates and we’re beginning to see some signs of Dem infighting. Welcome to June, 2019. Polls are coming out regularly showing some candidates rising at the expense of others while social media continues to put a Mayor from South Bend, IN […]

Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the President, First Son-In-Law and BFFs with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince MBS gave a rare interview on Sunday night on HBO’s Axios. While some believe the smartest thing about Kushner to date has been his good sense to stay out of the public eye, he pretty much lost those IQ […]

Polls are painting a dark picture for the President’s reelection efforts. Since Joe Biden’s candidacy announcement polls have consistently shown he would beat POTUS if the election was held today. Of course it is very early and the real attack on Biden has yet to begin but RealClearPolitics shows the average gap at 8.1 percent […]

Attorney General William Barr is under attack for his actions in connection with the Mueller report. Shortly after his confirmation the newly minted AG was quickly under the lights for his summary of the Mueller report days after its submission from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Barr’s summary of no collusion, no obstruction was immediately seized […]

Attorney General Barr released the redacted version of the Mueller report on Thursday and sent talking heads into a head spinning frenzy. Despite the President declaring total vindication, the redacted reported paints a picture far from vindication of misdeeds while concluding the Presdient will not be indicted. While Trump enjoys a minority but strong base […]

The Democratic field for 2020 Presidential hopefuls grows by the day as does the armchair punditry of where the candidates stand and if they have the staying power to make it through the convention a mere 15 months away. Kamala Harris came out of the gate strong as did Elizabeth Warren while Bernie is on […]

The Green New Deal has become a rallying cry for the Trump 2020 campaign with GOP pundits ripping into its provisions, suggesting the plan will lead to Soylent Green apocalyptic scenarios. Ok, maybe we should all take a breath while we still can and actually look at the proposed provisions which do support a “moon […]

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 […]