Tagged: principles

Snark vs. Thought

I just saw this headline on my MSN homepage: “Leader of NC protests has coronavirus.” My first reaction upon reading this phrasing: So what? My second reaction was to imagine what I would think if the headline were about me: “Anti-hysteria writer tests positive for coronavirus.”  My hypothetical response to that second, imaginary headline was the same: So what? In other words, what...

Compromised

Ted Cruz saw his wife and father publicly attacked and ridiculed by Donald Trump and his surrogates, and his own reputation and character smeared in the National Enquirer on Trump’s behalf, in the most repulsive case of “winning ugly” in the history of presidential politics. He watched the Tea Party constitutionalist movement he claimed to represent being thwarted and annihilated by Trump in...