Trump’s Sixth-Sense Moment with the Seventh Estate
Trump continues to prosecute his war with the media, the so-called “fourth estate”calling them an “enemy of the people,” but it is the “seventh” estate, the bureaucracy, that will be … Continue reading
Lügenpresse: The Bridge Too Far in Trusting Trump
Scranton, PA. Thousands of people in a hall hear Trump’s call: “The lying media…” and then it begins. The chant rises: “Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!” My 16 year old said: … Continue reading
Talking NATO, Trump Finds Black Lives Don’t Matter
Brian Ross (Appeared originally at The Huffington Post) The “bombshell” headline of the New York Times’ David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman interview with Donald Trump was supposed to be … Continue reading
Win the White House… Why? Gridlock is Power to Libertarians
(First published at The Huffington Post) by Brian Ross Conventional wisdom has been that the party who holds the White House holds real power. No longer. Serve up whatever clown … Continue reading
This Doomed Elephant Can’t Change Its Spots
The punditocracy has been abuzz for a post-election news cycle rife with the electoral stomping that Mitt Romney and the GOP took from minorities and women. Wonks and wags … Continue reading