So THIS is what he has in mind for “being more presidential.”

NEWS ITEM: Trump went on to criticize Republican rival Senator Ted Cruz for not embracing the waterboarding of terrorism suspects.

“He’s actually a very weak person, so he didn’t like it,” Trump said. “I’d go many steps further than waterboarding - many, many steps further.”

His torture comments generated another huge burst of cheers.*

EDITORIAL: Really, is one needed?

*Source 4/29/16 Los Angeles Times re Donald Trump’s Costa Mesa rally

Birds of Same Feather

Donald Trump now has former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight campaigning for him. Well, bully for him.

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A Life Lesson I Have Learned:

I have found unending peace in these solemn words written so very long ago: “Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die. Till you die.”

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Play That Funky Race Card, White Girl

NEWS ITEM: Remember Melissa Click, the University of Missouri professor who lost her job after assaulting a student on camera and asking for some “muscle” to help get rid of him? According to Click, her dismissal from Mizzou wasn’t because she attacked a student in a pathetic bid to shut down free speech. Nope. Click says she was fired for being white. In an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Melissa Click speaks out about being fired from the University of Missouri after threatening a student reporter who was filming a campus protest she was participating in. ‘This is all about racial politics,” she said. “I’m a white lady. I’m an easy target.”

EDITORIAL: No, dear, they fired you – as well they should have – for needlessly advocating violence against a student. Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean “violence.” I meant “muscle.”

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Feel The Burn (a stolen STD pun I'll admit)

The way things are going, I figure the day is not far off when a “religious freedom advocate” fireman refuses to put out a gay person’s house fire.

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The Myth of "American Exceptionalism"

Will someone please explain to me what “American exceptionalism” is? (Aside from delusional thinking, I mean.) Hey, I love my country too but we’re so extraordinarily average in so many respects that I think it nothing short of laughable to assert otherwise. This bloated sense of self-importance is half our problem, the other half of course being Obama not always wearing his flag pin.

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Jackson Jive

With the U.S. Treasury’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, some are up in arms.

While Ms. Tubman was a slave who freed herself then dedicated her life to freeing other slaves, Andrew Jackson’s policies as President led to the deaths of countless American Indians. Or as I call them “Americans.”

Let’s see. A slave who freed herself and dedicated her life to the extremely dangerous practice of freeing other slaves in a time of rabid racism or a guy who ordered the deaths of countless Americans.

Man, this is a tough one!

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