Photo Credit: Lawrence Jackson Am I the only one who cringed while watching last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” softball interview of Alan Gross, the American operative who was held five years in a Cuban military hospital after getting caught smuggling forbidden communications equipment into Cuba? Five times in 2009, Gross traveled to that Caribbean nation ostensibly […]

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  Photo: Jamie Bernstein Chicago’s sociopathic mayor sat down for a breakfas­­t interview this Wednesday at a tony club on the 66th floor of the 106-story Willis Tower, hosted by POLITICO Playbook, the website tout Washington scans every morning to learn what they’re supposed to talk about that day, indifferent or oblivious to the fact that […]

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  Photo Credit: Hugh Macleod / IRIN The travel warning for Yemen the U.S. State Department issued in April 2015 describes a “high security threat level . . . due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.” Citing continuing activity by organizations like Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the warning specifies that the “U.S. government […]

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  Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore One of the reasons I’ve been writing so much about the Donald Trump phenomenon has little to do with Trump himself. Rather, it concerns a subject of deeper fascination to me: the moeurs of America’s pundit class. That in any given era, the content of their opinioneering says more about […]

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Image Credit: Edel Rodriguez  If you’re a reader of this publication, there’s a good chance you haven’t heard of talk-radio star Colin Cowherd. Cowherd’s daily sports commentary is consumed by 2.5 million listeners during the mid-day hours, when he competes with Rush Limbaugh––in more than one sense. Another professional blowhard, Cowherd was dumped from ESPN Radio in […]

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