President Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. Vanity always gets the best of him. Presented with the perfect opportunity on Monday at the Helsinki summit to repudiate Russian President Vladimir Putin for what increasingly appears to be Russian state… Continue Reading
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s hard for me to believe it’s been that long, but I was there, outside the Cocoanut Grove restaurant and nightclub at… Continue Reading
MAGA hats off to President Donald J. Trump! After correctly admonishing Fake News for the better part of the past two years, he’s decided if he can’t beat ’em, might as well join ’em! That’s the best explanation for the… Continue Reading
There’s a meme going around, a diptych comprised of two gifs; Donald Trump allegedly mocking a disabled reporter on the right, Hillary Clinton allegedly suffering a seizure on the left. It’s pretty damned creepy, and to me, perfectly sums up… Continue Reading
It’s been more than a quarter-century since Bill and Hillary Clinton emerged on the national landscape, and we still don’t get Hillary Clinton. That apparently is the belief of cautiously optimistic Democratic operatives after Donald Trump narrowed Clinton’s lead in… Continue Reading
Dear Editor, I have read comments (on A News Cafe.com) about no letters about Hillary Clinton. Here goes. Clinton has California locked up, but she needs swing state Colorado. Everybody knows that Colorado has legalized marijuana, and the big obstacle… Continue Reading
It’s official. The mainstream media is dead. Donald J. Trump put the final nail in the coffin last week when he hired Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon to manage the final stages of his insanely improbable presidential campaign.… Continue Reading
Sometimes I fancy I’m the wise old man on the mountain, which isn’t too much of a stretch, being that I’m getting older every day and I live on a mountain. I go on long hikes through silent woods, hands… Continue Reading
Senator Bernie Sanders flexed his environmentalist and domestic policy muscles, calling out the Republican party’s presumed nominee, Donald Trump, while campaigning in California Thursday. Sanders, who is currently locked in a tight primary race with Hillary Clinton in the state,… Continue Reading
Bill Clinton arrived in Redding Thursday on a predictably scorching triple-digit afternoon to speak on behalf of Hillary Clinton, his wife and presidential candidate. The Shasta College cafeteria was the venue, though outside, crowds had been forming for hours in… Continue Reading
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