by | May 1, 2025

In my home state of Hawai’i, May 1st is annually celebrated as Lei Day, a day to share and embody the “Aloha spirit.” Locals across the island chain would exchange beautiful Hawaiian leis and celebrate the best of Hawaiian culture…

by | Apr 22, 2025

Amazing. With a clear display of exactly what’s wrong with the Washington Establishment “swamp”, over 200 people — in thoroughly and tellingly bipartisan fashion — have affixed their names to what they call “An Open Letter Opposing White House Retaliatory…

by | Apr 11, 2025

Today, 32-year-old Shawn Monper was charged by the Department of Justice for making threats to assault and murder President Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and other U.S. officials.  Monper is a Butler, Pennsylvania resident — the same…

by | Jul 16, 2024

I wasn’t surprised to see Donald Trump choose Ohio’s junior senator JD Vance as his running mate Monday. You almost assuredly already know Vance’s biography. It’s classic rags-to-riches, American Dream stuff. That’s very much on-brand for Trump. And there is…

by | Jul 9, 2024

After Biden’s disastrous debate, do anti-Trumpers still see him as a viable vehicle? This is a valid question because it hinges on who these voters see running the country should Biden win. It is also an important question because anti-Trumpers…

by and | Apr 19, 2024

Former President Donald Trump will be spending the next few weeks in a courtroom in New York, unable to campaign or even to attend his youngest son’s high school graduation. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, Melissa Mackenzie and…

by | May 10, 2023

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” Donald Trump famously said in 2016. If he realized the truth of an opposite phenomenon, he did not vocalize it. Affirmation that…

by | Dec 1, 2022

Well, of course. Here is a headline from the Guardian that is not getting anywhere near the attention it merits: Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner ‘to make Trump’s life miserable’ Rightwing provocateur says he helped arrange for…

by | Aug 18, 2022

Last Friday, I landed in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to speak at a pro-life summit. The summit organizers had kindly dispatched a van to transport a number of us from the airport, and a U.S. congressman who happened to be…

by | Jun 28, 2022

Why did it take 49 years to overturn Roe v. Wade, and who deserves credit for its demise not taking another 49 years? The different questions receive the same general answer: Republicans. Melissa Mackenzie emphasizes the former president’s role. “Because…

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