Recent Comments

1. about 20 hours ago on Two Party Opera

   The real question is, are any of them electable?

   I still expect Warren to be the nominee but she has demonstrated what a healthy dose of facts can do to a candidate. She was riding high until the voters discovered the cost of her promises. Apparently some of her supporters like her ideas only until they learn what they have to give up to get the promise.

   Can the Dems field a candidate capable of beating Trump on their own merits? Set aside the fact that Trump is his own worst enemy at times. Assume he doesn’t make any earth shattering blunders between now and then. Which of the Dems on the stage can beat him heads up?

   Keep in mind a very alarming (to Dems) set of recent polls. 3 major services place Trump’s approval rating with black voters at about 33%. Literally double the number that voted for him in 2016. Independent support for Impeachment has dropped to about 42%, down from over 50%.

   The Dems have a very hard road ahead.

2. about 21 hours ago on Ted Rall

   When radicalism succeeds big things happen. USSR. Nazi Germany. China. NK. Venezuela. Spain under Franco. I suppose it depends on how you define success.

   When it falls short we get Antifa, la Raza, the KKK. Still radical, still violent, still insane.

3. about 21 hours ago on Chip Bok

   So, whatbaoutism is OK on this topic? Well then, let’s discuss Obama’s abuse of power in re DACA.

4. about 21 hours ago on Chip Bok

   Hmmm. Looked very much like a “what about”.

5. about 21 hours ago on Jim Morin

   And despite all that most NATO members have dramatically increased their efforts to meet financial targets.

   Every POTUS since Clinton tried and failed, but the clown succeeded.

6. about 23 hours ago on Chip Bok

   Can there be any excuse that justifies Bloomberg abandoning the SPJ Code of Ethics? Or are you going to continue your classic deflections? Continue the what-aboutisms you forbid other to use?

   https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

7. about 23 hours ago on Chip Bok
   - I believe in the profession of journalism.- I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.- I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.- I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.- I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.- I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.- I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.- I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.
8. 1 day ago on Matt Wuerker

   Why did he run? Didn’t his friends and advisers warn him? So much baggage, an aging moderate base.

   Its not in the cards. Unless the convention goes to a brokered event, and even then it is unlikely they would choose Joe.

9. 1 day ago on Two Party Opera

   The similarities to the current situation are…a stretch, at best. The actual evidence against Buchanan was substantial, provable and extensive. A far cry from the parade of I believe/I think/I assumed witness we have been graced with.

   There is also the matter of the 115-45 vote to convene that Committee. Bipartisan? Oh yeah.

10. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    But how do you feel about allowing Antifa, the anarchists who violently disrupt economic summits, etc, etc.

    If you want to censor groups you need to set some fixed public rules and apply them evenly across the board and across the world.