By Gary Stout “They kiss on the ring, I carry the crown….I'm the man and nothing can break me down” –”The Man,” song by The Killers The idea of a “cult of personality” is a long-standing concept of authoritarian rule that has existed since the time of the Roman emperors in ...
Colorado decision is anti-democratic Oren Spiegler is correct in saying Colorado’s decision to ban President Trump from the ballot is “historic.” However, it is “historic” in that it is anti-democratic and an assault on the Constitution it cites. It misinterprets the 14th Amendment ...
By Oren Spiegler "Historic" is the word that is being used most often to characterize the bold and courageous decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to bar Donald Trump from that state's presidential ballot on the basis that he violated Clause 3, Article 14 of the United States Constitution by ...
During the 2008 campaign and the two terms Barack Obama served as president, the internet was replete with proclamations by self-appointed sages, oracles, soothsayers, prophets of doom and fortune tellers that Obama was the antichrist figure who would surely lead America into the depths of ...
I don’t know what it is going to take for people to embrace the reality about Donald Trump’s lies, criminality, and immorality. Let’s start with the fact that Trump lost the 2020 election. He lost simply because more people preferred, and voted for, Joe Biden. There was no widespread ...
