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Friday’s inauguration was sparsely attended in relation to previous inaugurations. No one really expected there to be the same kinds of numbers witnessed for the Barack Obama inauguration, and no one could hold anyone guilty of not achieving those numbers. But, as we learned over the weekend, the crowd for trump’s inauguration, as can be seen in the post immediately before this one, became the talk of the weekend, especially after more than twice as many protesters showed up to march in Washington D.C. the day after the inauguration. Here’s a brief breakdown of the weekend’s events: Friday: trump is inaugurated and gives a speech notedRead More →

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I wasn’t a universal fan of everything Barack Obama did, but I also believe history will judge him as one of our top 10. Tonight is the last night the Obamas will inhabit the White House, and amidst all the social media trolls making ridiculously racist statements, I have to take pause and reflect on this momentous moment. I never believed I would live to see America’s first black president, and I’m equally confident I won’t live to see our first woman president. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m more cynical than I often prefer. As Patton Oswalt tweeted the day after the election: WhatRead More →

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Today on Twitter, president-elect donald trump tweeted a picture of himself “writing” his inauguration speech. What is he looking at? What is he thinking? Is that really him or his wax dummy? Tell us in the comments.Read More →

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“I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate president.” On March 7, 1965, Congressman John Lewis was then just a young man making a name for himself in the Civil Rights Movement making his way across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when armed state police officers fell upon his group of marchers and used their night sticks to crack Lewis’ skull open. Lewis continued on, and crossed the bridge. That was not the first, nor was it to be the last time that John Lewis would be violently assaulted for taking a stand for what he believed in. John Lewis’ willingness to putRead More →

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Day 1: CNN drops a bombshell revelation that intelligence agencies briefed both President Obama and president-elect trump about compromising information Russian agents have on donald trump, and that they are possibly using this information to blackmail the future president.   Day 2: The story appears to fall apart as it is revealed that the 35-page memo released by Buzzfeed that contained the alleged compromising information turns out to be bogus. donald trump holds a press conference in which he accuses CNN of being a fake news agency, and refuses to allow them to ask him a question during the press conference. Internet trolls start celebratingRead More →

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Or, How the Media Continues To Say “No Thank You” to the First Amendment   Yesterday, CNN “broke” a story about the possible blackmailing of our president by a foreign government. It now seems more and more likely that the story just simply wasn’t true. So, how did it become such an explosive story so quickly? Let’s take a trip down memory lane for a moment to help us understand how this might have happened. In October, 2009, CNN cut into their regular programming to report some breaking news. It seemed that a large helium balloon had broken free and was floating above the Colorado countryside.Read More →

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That was the length of the synopsis appended to the intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the 2016 election that was presented to both President Obama and president-elect trump on Friday. It was leaked today that those two pages contained allegations that Russian operatives possess embarrassing and compromising information about president-elect trump’s personal and financial life. It was also revealed in those two pages that trump surrogates routinely met with intermediaries of the Russian government during the 2016 campaign. Information is still coming in, and nothing has yet been verified, but is it unlikely to, at this point, assume that Russia is blackmailing our incomingRead More →

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Throughout history, presidents have always been judged by their words and by their actions, but that is about to change. Enter president-elect donald trump, who should be judged not by what he says or what he does, but by what’s in his heart, according to his consigliere, Kellyanne Conway. In the wake of trump predictably being unable to resist a famous person criticizing him, Conway appeared on CNN to complain, “Why is everything taken at face value? You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart, you always want to go with what’s comeRead More →