TELLING?
Usually, candidates say which former presidents they’d seek to emulate. But Donald Trump has no sense of history—while Hillary Clinton has too much of her own.
Doug McIntyre is host of McIntyre in the Morning on KABC Radio in Los Angeles and is a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News.
SOUND OF SILENCE
It’s how Trump’s reign of terror all began—with Fox News’s built-in laugh track.
ENRICHING DESPOTS
There was really only one good reason to maintain the embargo: Trade with Cuba strengthens the Castros. So what, exactly, are we getting in return for Obama’s radical step?
End Scene
Thank the Sony hackers for this much: They’ve laid bare the very essence of Hollywood hypocrisy.
SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP
In an economy that goes from bubble to bubble, eventually we’ll reach the point where even the most ravenous American consumer has had enough.
Post-Fact World
It’s the great irony of the Information Age: Awash in pseudo-facts, we are less and less likely to believe official sources.
COUNTER PUNCH
Yes, we need to do something to help the undocumented immigrants already here—but not in a way that drives down workers’ wages.
Fall to Earth
When I was a kid, Bill Cosby’s comedy records were my ‘White Album.’ To me, he was a magician. Why he must address the multiple rape accusations against him honestly—and immediately.
HARD SELL
Will Democrats ever realize that increased immigration is not only bad policy, but a political loser as well?
PLAY BALL
Why are America’s two great pastimes—voting and baseball—increasingly so unpopular?