As an F-bomb enthusiast, I take great exception to Republican front-runner Donald Trump being derisively called a vulgarian.
John-William Schiffbauer is what Republicans, at least on paper, say they want their party to look more like. He’s 31-years-old (a coveted millennial), socially liberal, fiscally conservative and not totally white.
In 1992, Hillary Clinton was derided as an extreme feminazi vying for all the power the White House could offer her as First Lady. A reporter from Columbus, Ohio famously asked her, “You know, some people think of you as an inspiring female attorney mother, and other people think of you as the overbearing yuppie wife from hell. How would you describe yourself?”
President Obama is a radical socialist … as evident by none of his policies or anything he’s ever said.
“I love Bernie! I’ve donated to his campaign! He’s great!” my super conservative Beltway establishment Republican friend says. “Feel the Bern!!” He texts me with a snicker during all of the Democratic debates. The night of the Iowa Caucus I retaliated, texting, “Cruz! I’m so happy!!” I knew that’d make him cringe.
The Iowa caucus brings out the evangelical in all Republican candidates. After all, previous winners include Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, two candidates who exclusively appealed to evangelical voters (and pretty much no one else). In Iowa, the most devout and outwardly preachy Republicans get the nod. Donald Trump mistakenly thought making up Bible verses and quoting “two Corinthians” at Liberty University would be a sufficient religious test for the Hawkeye State. It clearly wasn’t – he came in “two.”
Try to contain your excitement, America! The younger brother of President George W. Bush wants to be president, too. Well, he tells us he wants to be president. Jeb’s running as a legacy admission while saying he’s his own man. It’s like a 30-year-old living “alone” in his parents’ basement.
I watched the Democrats’ first debate of this primary season at a packed Young Democrats viewing party in the East Village. Hundreds of young, left-leaning New Yorkers turned away from the Mets and the Dodgers in the playoffs to listen to the five presidential candidates for the Democratic Party at the lectern.
“How do you spell your name?” the woman asked. Was she Googling me? I tried not to panic. Playing up the jetlag, I gave her one of my business cards. Then I realized she was typing my name to put on my badge. She handed me my lanyard.
According to a Pew Research Center poll in 2010, nearly 123 million Americans (41 percent) believe the Rapture will happen before 2050. I bring this up because the first supermoon lunar eclipse in 30 years will happen on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. If you’re reading this column after then, it’s safe to assume it wasn’t the end of the world.
By my count there are 163 candidates battling for the Republican nomination, and not one of them thinks women should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. The party that loves to chirp the words freedom and liberty when it comes to guns, taxes and corporations demands the government start regulating reproduction.
If you believe in inalienable rights, they apply to all people — even those you don’t like or agree with. So stop pretending wanting to deny other people their rights is God’s glory. There’s no honor in refusing fellow Americans their Constitutional right to personal freedoms.
I’d like to come out as the first person on record to praise Josh Duggar, former executive director of FRC (Family Research Council) Action for his participation in the online infidelity community known as Ashley Madison.
I plead with all the writers, journalists, pundits, posters, commenters and tweeters of the nation: Please stop calling the Republican field a clown car. It was funny and image-provoking the first hundred times I read it. Now it’s the quip that won’t die.
Let me get this out of the way: I don’t agree with the pro-life position on abortion for two reasons. The first is if abortion is criminalized, all women of child-bearing years legally become public incubators. The ability to bear children will mean being subjected to special scrutiny by the government.
I’m a free speech extremist. I believe the government has absolutely no business regulating or censoring speech. Of course, commercially popular speech doesn’t need protection. It’s only unpopular — racist, sexist and vulgar — speech that requires it.
