Weeks before killing 49 infidels in Orlando, Omar Mateen walked into a Florida gun store trying to buy body armor and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Suspicious about a Middle Eastern-looking guy jabbering a foreign language into a cellphone, the gun-store clerk denied the man service.
Well, thank goodness we have President Obama on the case. He will get to the bottom of it and finally put a stop to all this murder, madness and mayhem.
In one reference right out of the gate, Hillary Clinton both grasped for history and played the woman scorned card.
Anyone who treasures integrity in the federal judiciary cannot help but cringe every time Donald J. Trump complains about the federal judge handling the class-action lawsuit against him on the grounds that the judge is of Mexican descent.
Politically speaking, nobody ever went broke beating up the media. Add this truism to the long, long list of techniques and tactics that Donald Trump instinctively understands at a deep guttural level that nobody in media or politics seems to grasp. Even now, a year into Mr. Trump's Presidential Spectacular.
Clutching her pearls, Hillary Clinton is stricken. Horrified! Disgusted that Donald Trump would dare to remind voters about all the depraved debauchery she and her lecherous husband inflicted on the innocent American citizen for all of those years.
The general election isn't even officially underway yet, and already the leading front-runners of both major parties are in lockstep agreement on one major point: Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agree that disgraced former President Bill Clinton will play a huge role in the upcoming campaign.
A rare point of universal agreement in all this trenchant political acrimony: No matter what you think of Donald Trump, the political environment in which the flashy real estate mogul has so brilliantly thrived was created entirely by President Obama.
Unruly voters have elected an opportunistic showman as their presidential nominee. They were aided by infiltrators in the primary who were not even Republicans.
The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us?
Now, it is time to unify behind your party's nominee.
If in the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king, then columnist David Brooks of the New York Times is blind, deaf and dumb inside the Beltway.
The only people left debating who will be the 2016 Republican nominee for president are professional politicians and the pundits they serve.
Note to professional politicians: Voters really don't care what bathroom Bruce Jenner uses. That is between him, her and their psychiatrist.
What strange bedfellows and broken pretzels politics do make! Mere weeks ago, Sen. Ted Cruz pressured Gov. John Kasich to get out of the race for the Republican nomination because he had no mathematical chance of winning.
Twenty-five years later, HBO this week debuts a movie called "Confirmation," a drama rehashing all the lurid -- yet entirely unsubstantiated -- smears used in the great effort to destroy the character of one of America's first black Supreme Court justices. All because he was conservative.
Here in Washington, nothing ever goes "bump" by itself. Which leads us to the question, "What is Paul Ryan up to?"
Losing sucks. Especially if you are not accustomed to losing and Donald J. Trump has built his whole campaign on being a winner who wins.
In the past 28 years America has elected two presidents from the "conservative" party, the one that claims to stand for lower taxes, responsible spending and limited government. Both have been named Bush.
In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties.
