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 The following statistics are from a ProPublica report, “Median Income Is Down, But Public College Tuition Is Way Up,” prepared by Fan Fei: The report, which includes a feature that allows you to identify the tuition increase at any public university or college in the country, is available at:…
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…
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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…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Michigan League for Public Policy has issued a report on the funding of public higher education in the state. The full report is available here: http://www.mlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Back-to-school_2016.pdf. Writing for Michigan Live, Brian McVicar provides this summary of the report’s most salient findings: “Michigan has failed to adequately invest in higher…
BY MARTIN KICH Higgins, George V. The Friends of Eddie Coyle. New York: Knopf, 1972. In 1985, the Book Marketing Council selected The Friends of Eddie Coyle as one of the top twenty postwar American novels. Higgins’ debut effort, the novel has been translated into Danish, Finnish, Flemish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish. It…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH $933 million Wage theft recovered for workers by federal and state agencies in 2012. $341 million Estimated value of all of the property taken in all reported robberies in 2012. Jeff Spross, The Week, 15 Aug. 2016
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,…