I started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capital city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year.The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, …
Democratic political consultant James Carville wants Maine voters to back Graham Platner despite the candidate’s flaws — and partly because of some of them. Platner is currently the likely Democratic nominee in Maine’s U.S. Senate race. If Platner wins the primary, he will face Republican Senator Su…
Either the nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump believes a cognitive test is an intelligence test or he’s lying about his mental health. I don’t think there’s a gray zone here. If it’s the first, he’s demented. If it’s the second, he’s hiding something (probably dementia). Either way, it’s bad.It happens…
One of the Republican lawmakers who stood up to President Donald Trump over his longtime friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein cursed out a Fox News journalist who accused her of an affair with another anti-Epstein Republican.“F— you, first of all!’ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) told a Fox News Di…
I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.But it’s possible that someday we’ll look back on this horrendous era and say we needed Trump. We needed to see how horrible it could get before America was able to r…
The 2026 World Cup promises to be the planet’s most-watched sporting event. It’s also poised to generate its fair share of controversy.Taking into account the history of corruption in FIFA, the sport’s governing body, it would be hard to blame anyone who decided to ignore this year’s competition.How…
Let’s start with some questions today, before we arrive at the answer.What if Kamala Harris had become president, promptly leveled the historic East Wing of our White House, and then spent each day like a petrified drama queen shrieking that taxpayers should purchase her a new ballroom?What if Harr…
San Francisco Gate reports employees are searching for someone who appears to have illegally driven a car through the delicate bristlecone pines ecosystem of the Inyo National Forest.“Adam Leidy, Inyo National Forest’s off-highway vehicle and over-snow vehicle program manager, posted two videos to h…
President Donald Trump genuinely appears in no hurry to end his self-created Iran war disaster, which is tearing down Republicans’ chances in the November midterms. And Zeteo reporter Harrison Mann believes that might be because the president is truly clueless about the pain he’s putting on grumblin…
Guardian writer Chris Stein says do not expect the lock-step Republican Party to find it’s spine and wholly disown it’s MAGA king in time for the November midterms — but you can expect a smattering of GOP adherents to break away as a matter of political survival.“The wrath of Donald Trump has kept c…