Four score and…a lotta years ago. A lot. A lot. I’m talking a whole bunch’a years. Our fathers did this really HUGE thing. I mean, it was tremendous, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now I said men, not Muslims, Hispanics, African-Americans, women, (especially that fat pig Rosie O’Donnell), and vets who got caught. By the way, these people love me. I hired a lot of them. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. I’m talking HUGE. I only do

We are losing our sense of history. The communications revolution, with its instant messaging, snapchats and smart phones, has counterintuitively made us stupider. The information barrage is so incessant, there is no time to reflect on the past or to plot a path ahead. That is why the way forward these days usually involves a stumble. Consider the national political scene. If the current crop of candidates makes you want to vote for “None of the Above,” bear in mind there

1. He has insulted Hispanics, women, Muslims, Catholics (by attacking the pope), POW’s. There are not that many groups left to fashion a winning coalition. 2. If he wins the nomination, wait until the opposition unloads. You think what John Oliver did skewered The Donald? You ain’t seen nothing yet. 3. By this time in every presidential nominating contest save one (GOP-1976), a consensus had formed in the late stage primaries around one candidate. That has not happened

Now is when we start hearing that the GOP establishment will pull out all the stops to keep Donald Trump from garnering the nomination. Scenarios range from one of the remaining candidates, such as Ted Cruz, besting Trump in the remaining primaries as the field is winnowed, to a brokered convention where a dark horse (e.g., Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan) emerges. The problem for an ABT proponent is that the history is daunting. Brokered conventions have not occurred since 1956. Ca

Pundits are abuzz with speculation that former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg may mount a third party bid for the presidency. The question arises: Could such a bid be something other than a quixotic endeavor? Presidential election history suggests the task is daunting. There have only been three credible third party bids in the last century, 1912, 1968 and 1992. As an iconic former president and noted progressive, TR ate into Wilson’s progressive support and Taft’s establishment