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Category: Donald Trump

  • Afflicting the comfortable, Roseanne is cackling all the way to the White House

    Who says the culture wars are dead? The indentured servants at the Stately Manor were given the hour off their menial labors Tuesday night to watch the reboot of Roseanne, once the technicians got the vertical hold fixed on the 12-inch b&w Philco. It’s not every comedy program that elicits laughter from these hardened reprobates…

  • UW-Madison journalism prof is white and implicitly biased

    … and now explicitly biased! Sue Robinson is why Fake News. The University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism professor is why Sean Hannity and Donald Trump, Rachel Maddow and Bernie Sanders. To every excess there is an opposite and even crazier reaction. Professor Sue Robinson is proof of the postulate. The lady teaches the sneering Don Lemons of…

  • Donald Trump: irritating boor with the Right policies

    The essential Joseph Epstein is always a welcome guest at the Stately Manor. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Professor Epstein perfectly captures the Squire’s considered position on our current President. Professor Epstein, you have the podium: My son … nicely formulated the Donald Trump problem for thoughtful conservatives. “I approve of almost everything he has…

  • Happy Presidents Day, now where’s the damn mail?

    This being President’s Day (yippee!), we can only say that it helps to have a good biographer. If you don’t have one you need to write it yourself, which is what Donald Trump is trying to do with his tweeting thumb. The quadrennial ranking of the presidents is out on this most propitious day. It is…

  • Make America Stupid Again

    Private enterprise to the rescue: Shoot neat stuff into space! Restore Trust in Government! Invent fake quotes! My Always Trump friends (for they ARE my friends) maintain there is method to Donald Trump’s madness. Making America crazy is beneficial. It fracks the Deep State and drains the swamp, or some such ex post facto apologia.…

  • Prosecutorial over-reach at the FBI? Nah! Quash the memo!

    Now on the big screen, Hollywood royalty Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep relive the glory days when American journalism fought for the public’s right to know. Those were the days, my friends, we thought they’d never end — until now. The Washington Post made its bones by defying the Nixon Administration to publish the Pentagon…