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Category Archives: Books
Yet Another TV Series About the Hellish 2016 Election Is Coming
Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann will tackle 2016 election in upcoming book and HBO miniseries. Credit Rick Wilking Getty " Saturday Night Live " has continuously parodied the 2016 presidential election with Alec Baldwin playing Trump, and as for non-scripted TV programming, much content has covered Trump.
The difficulty of being Susan Collins – alone in the middle
First, the "moderate" part. She comes from a Maine Republican tradition that, while supporting the business community, also has focused on good but limited government.
No, The Resistance Isn’t Working Quite Well
On most days, if you asked me what I would do if I was given a time machine that allowed me to travel back in time to the 1960's, I'd tell you that I'd go see Jimi Hendrix light his guitar on fire at the Monterrey Pop Festival or watch Sandy Koufax pitch or Mickey Mantle hit. There are a lot of things I wish I could have seen in person.
JK Rowling and Piers Morgan face off on Twitter after TV row over backing Trump
Piers Morgan and JK Rowling became embroiled in a Twitter row over the Good Morning Britain presenter's support of Donald Trump after he was criticised live on US television. The Harry Potter author expressed glee at the broadcaster being sworn at by Australian comedian Jim Jefferies during an appearance on panel show Real Time With Bill Maher.
Sen. Warren book on middle class coming in April
This book cover image released by Metropolitan Books shows, "This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class," by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
US court rules against Nigeria senator facing drug charges
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a ruling against a Nigerian senator who faces drug charges related to the hit TV show "Orange is the New Black." Chicago prosecutors accuse Buruji Kashamu of heading a heroin trafficking ring in the 1990s.
Obama’s black and white paradox
When the email lobbed in, what surprised me was not the violence of the language, but the fact that its author was Australian. Barack Obama, the man wrote, deserved to be killed with piano wire.
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post: Cabinet nominees antidote to 8 years of liberal overreach
Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our principal geopolitical adversary.
The last Time we had a President bored by Intel Briefings, we got 9/11
Former CIA head and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently said that if President Elect Trump refuses intelligence briefings and something bad happens, he would be responsible. These are ominous words.
Dunham and Coates, mutual admirers, talk writing and Trump
"Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common. "If what has to happen is that I get metaphorically strung up by my toes because I think we were all born equal and beautiful, then that's just what's going to happen," Dunham said.
Ellen DeGeneres gets Medal of Freedom: 10 of the most hilarious quotes from Ellen’s books1 hour ago
November 23: Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres was on Wednesday awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama at the White House, and the former's fans are thrilled. DeGeneres has been an entertainer and an inspirational figure for millions of people not just in America, but across the world.
The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary…
"Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium - gave Russia for a big payment." - Donald Trump, campaign rally, Oct. 25, 2016 "Remember that Hillary Clinton gave Russia 20 percent of American uranium and, you know, she was paid a fortune.
Identity politics? No, a political identity
Republicans disdainfully call it "identity politics," this outreach by Democrats to the many target audiences that make up what we used to call "the melting pot" but is more accurately described as the patchwork quilt comprising the American people. That's because, when they think of "the voter," "the people," "REAL Amurricans," Republicans have a very clear image in mind: a middle-aged white man with a middle-class job, a wife and kids who are dependent on him, and the grandparents, who are also white and live in the suburbs or a retirement community.
Daphne Bramham: Lessons for Canada from how the Koch brothers hijacked democracy
This was supposed to be the year that the American billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, bought the presidency in their zealous bid to reshape the United States into a libertarian utopia. On the Democratic Party side, outsider Bernie Sanders nearly derailed the well-funded hopes of Hillary Clinton with his appeal to get big money out of politics.
Best-sellers
2."Hillbilly Elegy," by J.D. Vance The former Marine and Yale Law School graduate's account of growing up poor in a white working-class neighborhood. 3."When Breath Becomes Air," by Paul Kalanithi A posthumously published memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer.
Reader fires back on Fox rhetoric
Larrry Rascoe's every word in his op-ed came straight from Fox Radio WHOP talking heads dogma word for word, loop to loop five days a week by Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity on 12:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. then 99.7 FM, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. with Mark Levin and Michael Savage-all day, which should be sued for worst slander, using vicious, nastiest ugly name calling of our current honorable president who I am very proud of. President Obama hasn't been "my way or the highway" cowboy, invading Iraq on phony WMDs , causing deaths of over 6,000 coalition forces, over 30-60,000 injured troops, which was covered up then but exposed by icasualites.org.
12 Reasons Why This Was Hillary Clinton’s Worst Week Ever
Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash made allegations of corruption and pay-for-play - that Hillary Clinton leveraged her power as Secretary of State to benefit big donors to the Clinton Foundation - and that scandal has simmered since before the book's release last May. Early on, several establishment news outlets investigated the narratives of Clinton Cash and confirmed many of its findings. Leaked documents from the Democratic National Committee showed that the party deemed the Clinton Foundation a vulnerability for Clinton; the global charity, worth billions, received zero mentions during the week-long Democratic National Convention.
White House releases Obama’s summer reading list
The White House released President Barack Obama's summer reading list on Friday as the first family vacationed in Martha's Vineyard. It's a mix of prize-winning novels and the memoir of a surfer who spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, something the president can appreciate.
Forget the Titans: Trump foe Huffington follows Trump friend Ailes out the door
Arianna Huffington and Roger Ailes have left the media companies they built mid-election. Five weeks ago, with the major-party conventions about to launch the most compelling general election season in recent memory, who could have imagined that two media titans with opposing stances on Donald Trump would leave the newsrooms they spent years building, long before the votes were counted? And yet, that is exactly what has happened, with Arianna Huffington's announcement Thursday that she will step down as editor in chief of the Huffington Post coming on the heels of Roger Ailes's ouster from the chairmanship of Fox News .