POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “$100,000 For Inauguration Night at Trump’s D.C. Hotel: That’s a tremendous amount, but apparently that’s what it will cost to stay at the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C., for the night in the Presidential Suite. That said, the hotel’s perch on Pennsylvania Ave is as front-row as you can get for…
BY MARTIN KICH CNN contributor and Trump campaign surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes has accused Hillary Clinton of deserving to be called a “bigot” because she has denounced racists and white supremacists: “’Bigotry, if you look at the definition, it’s about someone who’s small-minded and sits there and directs hate towards a certain group. Hillary Clinton’s…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item appeared in the HuffPost Hill daily newsletter for September 8, 2016: WHAT YOUR REPUBLICAN UNCLE WILL BE EMAILING YOU IN A WEEK OR SO–Seth Borenstein: “It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him—and there’s no worming…
BY MARTIN KICH Trump could not let Clinton’s “deplorables” comment go without a self-serving tweet: Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump While Hillary said horrible things about my supporters, and while many of her supporters will never vote for me, I still respect them all! 2:18 PM – 10 Sep 2016 And that tweet became an…
BY MARTIN KICH The New York Times has culled the following video montage from film of several Trump rallies. I have linked to it here in response to this weekend’s “controversy.” In case you missed it, Hillary Clinton has apologized for describing a large portion of Trump supporters as “deplorables.” But if the behavior and…
BY MARTIN KICH While introducing Donald Trump and Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani asserted, “Before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States.” Perhaps this is the flip side of the claim that President Obama and his supporters refuse to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorists”: that is,…
BY MARTIN KICH The America First Committee was a loose confederation OF fairly autonomous local chapters that in some states gathered for statewide meetings. Emphatically isolationist, it was established in late 1939 in response to the start of the Second World War in Europe, and its members were committed to keeping the United States out…
BY MARTIN KICH This is how the official Trump campaign site marked Labor Day: Trump did, however, tweet about his meeting with union leaders at an American Legion Post in Youngstown–after he bragged about some very selectively highlighted poll numbers: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Heading to Youngstown, Ohio now-some great polls. #AmericaFirst Donald J.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been removed from their positions in public higher education institutions permanently! In January 2016, 2,218 scholars from Turkey signed a petition titled “We will not be a party to this crime,” also known as the Peace Petition. Since…
BY HANK REICHMAN The latest work by celebrated gonzo journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech, is a book-length essay that tries to pillory the academic study of language, targeting along the way for special vitriol none other than Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. I have zero expertise in this field and have…