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Monthly Archives: January 2016
How Dumb Do They Think We Are?
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Like him or hate him, you have to agree that Ted Cruz, graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law, Supreme Court law clerk and million-dollar lawyer, is a smart guy. Smart doesn’t mean he’s right about anything, but it has to mean that he understood exactly how he financed his Senate campaign. And […]
Well, That’s Too Long
New York Values: What Tiny Ted Will Never Get About The...
BY JOE CONASON Exactly what does Ted Cruz mean when he sneers about “New York values” as a reason to reject Donald Trump? Disparaging New York has long been a favorite trope for reactionary loudmouths, always with an ugly undertone of bigotry against racial, ethnic, religious and, more recently, sexual minorities. Demagogues denigrating New York […]