This article was written by Dick Polman. Polman is the National Political Columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia, newsworks.org/polman, and a “Writer in Residence” at the University of Pennsylvania. Email him at dickpolman7@gmail.com. Matt Lauer will be remembered as a fallen sexual harasser, but in my mind, he’s forever immortalized as
This essay was written by Dick Polman. Forgive my frequent references to Richard Nixon. It’s just eerie how his impeachable behavior is being replicated by the current con man. As Yogi Berra reputedly said, “It’s like de©jevu all over again.” For instance: When Nixon decided to thwart the FBI’s probe
This essay was written by Dick Pohlman. Contact him at dickpolman7@gmail.com. Let’s stick with the story about the Dreamers–the 800,000 young immigrants Trump wants to kick out of the Country– because, we need to talk about the Democrats. You may remember the Democrats . They’re the people who need a
This essay was written by Dick Polman. It’s an old story, freshened anew by Hurricane Harvey. Republicans profess to hate “Big Guvmint” as a matter of principle–until catastrophe hits a red state. Suddenly, they’re fine with Federal spending and completely dump their rhetorical boilerplate about the nanny state. And hey,
No matter what you think of Donald J. Trump, you got to admit he’s a cracker-jack salesman, with an uncanny gift for manipulating the mainstream media, like a three-armed, rental clown juggling pin-pulled grenades, on an express elevator to hell. Every single day something he touches starts smoking. You’ve heard
Will Durst is an award-winning, Nationally-acclaimed columnist, comedian, and former short-haul truck driver of plaster molds. Donald Trump is the political reincarnation of Tina Turner; he doesn’t do anything nice and easy. Also, they’re both Type A personalities who expend a lot of energy, but hardly move at all. And
Tom Purcell is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist. The demand for skilled laborers–electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians and others–continues to soar, and that’s a good thing for America. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, skilled-trades jobs have increased by more than 1 million since 2012, “the most of any
Editor’s note: Dick Polman is the National political columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia and a “Writer in Residence” at the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the 25th Constitutional Amendment. A Vice President, working with a “majority of either the principle officers of the executive departments, or of such body as
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I’m a free speech extremist. I believe the Government has absolutely no business regulating or censoring speech. Of course, commercially popular speech doesn’t need protection. It’s only unpopular–racist, sexist and vulgar–speech that requires it. So, as a free speech extremist, ironically, I often find myself on the same side as
And now for a few choice words concerning my recent demotion to the status of second-class citizen. The amazing thing is how quickly my metamorphosis into Cockroachlandia occurred. One minute, I’m walking around like an ordinary human; the next minute, I’m an insect, an unwanted stiff, a bum, a vagabond,
A cyber attack altered your holiday movie choices last year. Sony Pictures was the victim of a massive security breach. Personal emails were revealed, films were pirated, and employee data were leaked. The corporation immediately kowtowed to the terrorists, rumored to be North Korean-sponsored, killing the theatrical release of the
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