Author: Paul Gleiser

Keep Christmas well.

The words of one of broadcast journalism’s greatest wordsmiths continue to resonate at Christmastime.

What if he succeeds?

Those making predictions of a failed Trump presidency would do well to remember their predictions about his “doomed” candidacy.

Re-learning hard lessons.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they thought they could get away with it. That calculation came perilously close to being correct.

How are these people “mainstream?”

Why do we still call it the “mainstream media?” Who among the pretty TV news faces lives or works in anything resembling the mainstream of American life?

Trump’s biggest obstacle.

It’s the nearly three-million strong army of federal employees that constitutes the single biggest obstacle standing in Donald Trump‘s way.

They never saw it coming.

The political-class Ivy Leaguers who train back and forth between New York and Washington live in an alternate universe that most ordinary Americans don’t even know exists.

Whiffed.

The first question in the third and final presidential debate was a real opportunity for Trump to remind us that the Supreme Court is perhaps the number one reason to choose him over Hillary.