Eliyohu Mintz

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Trump says his insulting remarks towards women were for ‘entertainment’

October 6, 2016

Donald Trump said Wednesday that derogatory statements towards women that he has made were all for the sake of “entertainment” and did not reflect his true feelings. “A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment, there’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do,” the real estate mogul told Las […]


Obama’s approval rating reaches new high

October 6, 2016

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating hit 55 percent in a new poll released Thursday, the highest that number has been at any point during his second term in office. The CNN/ORC poll released Thursday marks the seventh consecutive month that Obama’s job approval numbers have been above 50 percent. His job approval number is […]


Obama charts path to economic growth in not-so-subtle Trump rebuttal

October 6, 2016

President Barack Obama made his case for a deliberate, measured path toward economic progress in an op-ed published Thursday in The Economist that reads like a plea to disenchanted voters tempted by the economic populism of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In the essay the outbound 44th American president acknowledges an enduring sense of “uncertainty and […]


Enquiring minds: David Brock goes tabloid on Trump

October 6, 2016

“PUTIN & TRUMP … Political Bromance Is Brewing” — with the two men surrounded by floating red hearts — is the cover story of the debut issue of the American Enquirer, a flashy, tacky tabloid with the slogan “News That Makes America GREAT.” The 16-pager is a project of David Brock and his Correct the […]


Limited by Johnson and Stein, Clinton still tops Trump in new Florida poll

October 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by 3 points in the latest poll of likely Florida voters, even as the survey numbers suggest that the third-party candidates are more of a drag on her than on him. Without Libertarian Gary Johnson or the Green Party’s Jill Stein in the race, Clinton’s 41-38 lead over […]


How Howard Stern Owned Donald Trump

October 6, 2016

To anyone who’s listened to “The Howard Stern Show” since it hit the national airwaves in 1986, Stern’s name still conjures the snicker of adolescent dirty talk, and the occasional sicko comment about Columbine or the developmentally disabled. But now, to the “WTF” of his own audience, Stern has emerged at the center of the […]


Ryan plans to steamroll Democrats with budget tool

October 6, 2016

If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them. Typically, party leaders offer […]