So now we know: Free trade causes abortion, wife-beating and infertility. This exciting new discovery was made — or, rather, made up — by the Trump White House as it sought to find arguments to justify scuttling the Trans-Pacific Partnership, NAFTA and other vehicles of international trade. The Post’s indispensable Damian Paletta reports that the […]
Bannon is already going to war on Trump
Edgar Hoover, famously Lyndon B. Johnson, deciding whether to fire FBI Director J. reasoned that “it’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.” President Trump has made a different choice, opting to fire Stephen K. Bannon, the nationalist envoy of the “alt-right” in the White House. […]
Brace yourself, taxpayers: Trumps plutocracy doesnt come cheap
How many Americans does it take to keep President Trump and his family in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed? Well, think of it this way. The Post this week had a scoop on the Secret Service requesting an additional $60 million in its next budget: $27 million to protect the president’s wife and […]
The utter nastiness of Ted Cruz
I followed both Cruz and Trump this week at multiple campaign events across New Hampshire. It was, in a sense, a pleasure to see them use their prodigious skills of character assassination against each other. It was demagogue against demagogue: lie versus lie. Both men riled their supporters with fantasies and straw men. But there […]