Trump will be the Republican Nominee

May 4, 2016 3

For weeks many reporters and commentators had wrongly predicted and expected that there would be an open and contested Republican convention. After a landslide victory in the state of Indiana, Trump’s opponents Ted Cruz and […]

Cruz and Kasich End their Presidential Race

May 4, 2016 6

Early at the start of the day in the Indiana primaries, Senator Ted Cruz changed his campaign strategy. Standing alongside his wife and Carly Fiorina, Cruz decided to assail Donald Trump with personal attacks. He […]

Why study History?

March 10, 2016 0

All around we read stories about what happened. Interesting, lively stories of individuals who did dramatic things. But many of those stories are not true. Others are incomplete and misleading. And it’s not just on […]

Romney calls Trump “a phony, a fraud”

March 4, 2016 5

An expanded, revised version of this article is now available in the new book: The Media Versus the Apprentice: The Devil Mr. Trump. March 2016.  Former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney joined the army of politicians who fought […]

The Story of Darwin’s Finches

February 1, 2016 0

I’ve never been to the Galápagos islands. Tourist guidebooks describe them as a beautiful tropical paradise, and some travelers speak of them as a Garden of Eden. But in 1835, when the young Charles Darwin […]

Donald Trump calls Megyn Kelly a Bimbo again!?

January 27, 2016 8

Last summer, Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly asked Donald Trump a question in the first Republican debate: Kelly: You’ve called women you don’t like: fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals…” Trump interrupted: “Only Rosie […]

Trump praised Mexicans a Hundred Times

January 24, 2016 3

An expanded, revised version of this article is now available in the new book: The Media Versus the Apprentice: The Devil Mr. Trump. In a previous article, I discussed how Trump’s initial comments about Mexicans were widely misrepresented. […]

George Lucas misunderstands Star Wars, again!

January 22, 2016 0

In an interview with Charlie Rose, George Lucas tried to explain “the downside” of his Star Wars movies. Since his movies were so successful, too many movie producers decided to “only do something that’s proven,” […]

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