It was the biggest of crowds, the greatest of crowds! Check out the Twitter hashtag #SeanSpicerSays. Here’s a sample: One really should avoid burning up one’s credibility in a new public relations job on the very first day you ascend to it.
With Nixon and Obama it was their faces that cartoonists loved to caricaturize. With Trump it’s his character. This is the work of Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
This seems appropriate before the inauguration of a two-bit con man whose election was assured by a Federal law enforcement agency (for the second Republican Presidency in a row, mind you), by the actions of the NYPD and by the actions of a foreign government. The continuing counterintelligence investigation means that Mr. Trump will take …
I’m doubtful this can be done by that sleazy little man.
She had an unpleasant day of hearings, but it appears that one day is all she’s going to have to endure. The Democrats on the committee repeatedly cried foul that Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) limited their questions to one round of five minutes each. [snip] But Alexander, a former education secretary under President George H.W. …
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We all know “Guys and Dolls,” right? Well, here’s a little switch. When Frank Sinatra formed Reprise Records in 1960 Sinatra recruited several artists for the fledgling label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy …
Raise your hand if you remember such songs from the 1960s and 1970s as “Eli’s Coming,” “Stoney End,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” and “And When I Die.” Very good, class. Now, for three gold stars, name the composer. Gotcha, didn’t I? They were all written by Laura Nyro, a New Yorker born-and-bred, and they were all …
SNL, tonight: Do you suppose Trump is thinking “when those bastards do that to me after I’m inaugurated I’ll have the Secret Service pick ’em up?”
Among the many things I have admired about President Obama is his concern for America’s historical places and his willingness to protect them. By invoking the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate the sites, Obama has now used the act more than any other president. He has created or expanded 34 national monuments, two more …
For years I’ve thought that the Republicans opposed the Affordable Care Act because it taxed their friends to pay for health insurance for people who weren’t their friends, and because it was the Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular who got it passed into law. I’m sure there’s still a lot of truth …