Dallas, D.C.
October 3, 2013. Attempted breach at White House. Stop. Capitol was in lockdown after shots fired. Stop. Pennsylvania Avenue closed. Stop. Secret Service engaged...
How the Incumbent Lion (Obama) Fought to Lose the Presidency to the Phantom Contender
I know Aesop’s fable is about a wise lion who, tickled at the idea of a mouse helping him, let the mouse escape his...
Market Mindlessness
It is a truism that the stock market is a leading economic indicator—that is, how the market does tells us something about how the...
Giuliani Out of Presidential Race—Unsure of Lunch Plans
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday he will not enter the race for the Republican nomination to run...
The Usefulness of Old People
In their first song together, Hey Old Man, the musical group ABBA, which you may have heard of from their Broadway show, Mamma Mia!...
What Is Wrong with the Left? Its Republican Balls
Now, Charlie Hebdo is what TPV would like to be compared to when people need to compare us to some thing or another. So,...
The C.I.A. Chronicle of a Putsch Foretold – Maduro’s
President Maduro of Venezuela just offered Edward Snowden asylum in Venezuela, risking the Heinz empress and her husband, the US Secretary of State,...
Mr. Just-the-Lawyer
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Competition correspondent was rope jumping when he came across Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs. Once largely limited to the technology...
Barack O’Sarko: Can the Incumbent Win a Second Term?
Are the Republicans crazy enough to go with Ron Paul as their candidate? Is Newts moment in the sun over so he can go...
Todd Gitlin’s Bad Trump, Good Trump
Bad Trump, Good Trump
March 1, 2017 by Todd Gitlin
This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com.
It seems that all Donald Trump must do to win friends...
The Genius of Herman Cain (ruined by a Ben Stiller movie)
The Republican primary season (can something that lasts 18 months be considered a season?) is nothing if not entertaining. Trump's self-proclaimed victory over Obama...
DSK: Cherchez la Femme!
IMF (once) director, and noted Frenchman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was, how do you say, perp-walked off a plane by the NYPD on May 14 as...
Storytelling à l’Ancienne
Oprah taped the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last week. I cannot claim that she helped me raise my children, or that...
Latest Wikileaks Release: Republican Presidential Candidate Emails
On Saturday Wikileaks published a new set of emails to its website, this time featuring emails sent among the leading Republican presidential candidates. It...














