They signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate of the party. They broke their word. In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful.
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Even if Republicans are persuaded that Hillary Clinton is Claire Underwood out of ‘House of Cards’—well, Claire Underwood is a more stable person to have in office than a cross between Sauron and Bozo the Clown.
Our original Constitution did not even have an income tax. Instead, it had tariffs - emphasizing taxation of foreign, not domestic, production. Yet today, 240 years after the Revolution, we have turned things completely upside-down. We tax and regulate and restrict our companies to death, then we al…
I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being s…
Well, that was pretty awesome – and I mean that in the worst way. A number of people deserve vast condemnation here, from David Cameron, who may go down in history as the man who risked wrecking Europe and his own nation for the sake of a momentary political advantage, to the seriously evil editors…
Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings.
‘This is a dark day,’ he said. ‘But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.
We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of a…
I hope I’m wrong to think that Britain has made a choice that will have very bad consequences, because I don’t wish disaster on my country. But among the things to fear is what happens when the millions of poorer Britons who were seduced by the Brexiters discover that it is not the miracle solution…
It will be a formidable challenge for Britain’s next prime minister to make an economic, diplomatic and political success out of Brexit. Or, to set the bar at a more realistic level, to contain the damage.
David Cameron... The man who arrived as leader of his party pledging to purge its obsession with ‘banging on about Europe’ has blown himself up over Europe.
The Founding Fathers had it right. There is an inherent danger coming from direct democracy when combined with an uninformed and manipulated public that has to decide the policy of a country, as we saw on June 23 when 36 percent of eligible voters in the UK chose to exit the European Union. Again, t…
When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.
The less you say, the more you stand for.
A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flav…
They were the interchangeable faces of violence and politics.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
We don't hate white people. We know white people. We know the history of white people. If a tiger broke into this room right now, I'd beat you getting out. If a rattlesnake broke in, I'd beat you getting off of this stage. I don't hate rattlesnakes, I don't hate tigers, I just know I can't get along…
They've never had a Black man stand up and identify with the struggle of his people.
Well, Black people have actually been in jail for four-hundred years here in America. But I don't worry about jail, I believe in Allah, I believe in Elijah Muhammad — as the messenger of god —and many great men have had to go to jail. So I don't pay attention to it. If the time comes, I'll have to g…