If Trump Wins

by D.R. Tucker September 18, 2016December 22, 2022

It could happen. It could happen. In his 2009 book The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989, right-wing author Steven Hayward describes the aftermath of President Carter’s defeat on November 4, 1980: By Thursday the magnitude of the election was starting to course through the news cycle. “The election was a shocker,” Washington Post […]

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Tantrums Won’t Stop Terror

by D.R. Tucker September 18, 2016January 9, 2022

Good on CNN’s Jake Tapper for pressing Donald Trump bum-kisser Chris Christie on the Republican presidential nominee’s hair-on-fire reaction to last night’s explosion in New York: In times of crisis, we don’t need “leaders” who melt down or freak out. When the Boston Marathon bombing occurred in April 2013, then-Boston Mayor Tom Menino and then-Massachusetts […]

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In the Court of Public Opinion

by D.R. Tucker September 18, 2016January 9, 2022

Sometimes you can just tell when an effort is doomed. Such is the case with a peculiar proceeding in Oregon this past week, where an effort to get the federal courts to do with the Obama administration allegedly will not is guaranteed to down in flames–the height of irony, as the court case in question […]

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Burning Down the House

by D.R. Tucker September 17, 2016January 9, 2022

It’s sadly ironic that as worldwide temperatures continue to rise, mainstream-media coverage of the most pressing issue of our time–human-caused climate change–continues to fall. Fortunately, documentary filmmakers and writers have stepped up to do the job that so much of the Fourth Estate won’t on climate. Speaking of writers combating carbon pollution, 2014 produced the […]