Author: John Micek
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Micek: Griffin’s stunt the latest slide into incivility
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An anonymous reader of the newspaper I work for had a lot on his mind: “If that was your hero Obama’s bloody head, I do believe there would have been a small novella condemning every right-winger … by now,” he or she, operating under cover of an online pseudonym, chided me. My faceless friend, as…
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Micek: Compared to Clinton, Trump seems lost at sea
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So who’s winning the Commander-in-Chief Election? In their first proximate – but not joint – appearance of the fall campaign, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump each made the case for their foreign policy chops this week. Their backdrop: The retired aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Intrepid, in New York City. One of them –…
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Micek: Hillary hardly a champ for the working class
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On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is the fiery champion of the working stiff. “We are going to tax the wealthy who have made all of the income gains in the last 15 years: the superwealthy, the corporations, Wall Street,” Clinton said during a rally in Cleveland earlier this month. “They’re going to have to…
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Micek: Don’t expect a kindler, gentler Trump
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To live in the universe of Breitbart News is to live in a universe of perpetual fear and agitation. “Suspected illegal immigrant allegedly carjacks elderly woman,” one headline on the hyper-conservative, verging-on-nationalist site read Thursday morning. “Fire Department ordered removal of U.S. flags from fire trucks,” blared another. “The ObamaCare Bomb: Plan 9 from Collectivist…
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Micek: Two campaign controversies voters shouldn’t shrug off
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If you ever wonder why some people think the game is rigged, why they believe the rich get access to government and power and influence the way the average working stiff doesn’t, then two headlines are instructive. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that Paul Manafort, the campaign manager for Republican presidential nominee…
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Micek: No walking back Trump’s comments
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Donald Trump knew what he was doing Tuesday afternoon. Make no mistake. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” a smiling Trump said of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the…
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Micek: A 102-year-old’s view of Hillary’s historic moment
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If there was any doubt as to the massive symbolic significance of Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic nomination for president, one need only look at the face of Jerry Emmett. Emmett, who is 102, was born before American women won the right to vote. On Tuesday night in the Wells Fargo Center, the honorary member…
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Micek: The reluctant embrace of Trump
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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) wanted to talk about a bunch of stuff during his primetime address at the Republican National Convention. But Donald Trump wasn’t high on that list. He barely mentioned him at all. Instead, the ever-wonkish Ryan focused on the House GOP’s legislative agenda. He hammered home how important “a conservative…
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Micek: What Is Paul Ryan Thinking?
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This is the kind of behavior from a likely nominee for the presidency that U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan has endorsed with his announcement Thursday that he’ll be voting for Donald Trump: A candidate who tosses the cherished concept of judicial independence to the wind with his brash suggestion that someone “ought to look into”…
