Author: John Kass

Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that we were told that the presidential election was over? It was so over that Hillary Clinton’s staff eagerly anticipated measuring the White House drapes in anticipation of the Clinton Restoration. And Donald Trump kept shooting his feet off with that stupid and vulgar mouth of his, until […]

With so many journalists spending so much time shaming Donald Trump’s voters so as to protect Hillary Clinton in November, I’m getting mighty worried. I’m not worried about Trump. He’s a megalomaniac, and his kind of narcissism will help him blend in quite nicely in Washington if he’s elected president. And I’m not worried about […]

Mercifully, those mind-numbing national political convention infomercials are finally over. They were full of exaggerations, lies, boring testimonials and people waving their arms claiming their product was best. Not to mention being a big waste of perfectly good balloons. I bet that if you stood on any street corner and stopped random sober pedestrians — […]

Hillary Clinton’s most effective TV ad focuses on the faces of young children who sit quietly, staring wide-eyed at screens, watching Republican Donald Trump shout wild, angry and violent words. It’s a powerful TV commercial, masterfully done, evoking child abuse while asking: “Our children are watching. What example will we set for them?” It is […]

CLEVELAND — If there’s anything more foolish than plagiarizing a political speech at a national convention, it’s pretending it didn’t happen and blaming others for pointing it out. But that’s what the Trump campaign did early Tuesday after Melania Trump’s Monday-night address at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. You could feel the city buzzing […]

After the Dallas ambush, I thought of a rookie cop I met a few weeks ago. A storm was coming, the wind was up, the sky was dark and he was wearing sunglasses. He looked young, excited, like an athlete before a game, perhaps only a few years older than my sons. And now that […]

“The arc of the moral universe is long,” shouted the freshly unindicted Hillary Clinton at a Democratic rally in North Carolina, with President Barack Obama at her side and the FBI behind her in her dust, “but it bends toward justice.” She nodded in triumphant agreement with herself, her head moving up and down, chin […]

Bill Clinton reminded America what the future will look like if Hillary Clinton — his wife and enabler — is elected president of the United States. What Bill did the other day in meeting privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch while his wife is under federal investigation wasn’t ostentatious. Bill didn’t want to beat his […]

In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre, the Democrats applied a law that serves them well: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” So they used the bodies of the dead as leverage for their politics and framed the national debate in terms of gun control rather than terrorism inspired by the radical jihadists […]

The dead were still being collected at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando — the scene of the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history — when I thought I heard something. On Twitter and the TV news, the facts were slow to arrive but the sweeping conclusions came instantly. Donald Trump, President Barack Obama and […]

Muhammad Ali was more than just a fighter. You must have heard that phrase hundreds of times by now, echoed in eulogies that cement it in the public mind, splitting one man into two, the prizefighter and the icon. But separating the fighter from the man — because some are squeamish about what he did […]

She sat at the kitchen table the other day, looking at an album. He peered over her shoulder and held her hand as she stared at a photograph. That photograph. In it, she is the happy, young and beautiful bride. He is the serious, skinny groom, looking stunned, like some hoofed forest creature staring helplessly […]

Was it only yesterday that Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn’t explain the difference between a Democrat and a socialist? They pursed their lips. They hemmed. They hawed. Their eyes got big and watery, with much blinking, like startled birds in some cartoon. It wasn’t that they didn’t know. They […]

Hillary Clinton’s political advocates — I prefer “meat puppets” — are wringing their hands over the Republican vulgarian Donald Trump. They’re upset over the boorish things he says about women, but, even worse, they’re anguishing over the death of American outrage. What bothers them is that anti-Trump outrage isn’t as widespread as the Clinton campaign […]

Hillary Clinton should be thankful that her career as America’s truth bender began long before social media really got going. When she started dropping those big fat fibs of hers, there was no Facebook or Twitter, no army of Internet trolls to unleash at her enemies, and no emails to be mysteriously lost at the […]

So now with the capitulation of conservative Ted Cruz and whiny moderate John Kasich, we are left with two big-government Democrats, insiders both of them, each with problems with the truth: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And one will be president of the United States. You might be asking yourself: What difference, at this point, […]

Coward that I am, I’ve always been afraid to watch that old movie “Thelma and Louise.” What stopped me was that car, the one they drove off the cliff together while holding hands, that gorgeous turquoise 1966 Thunderbird convertible hurtling into oblivion. Such a sweet ride didn’t deserve ending up at the bottom of the […]

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the two most disliked candidates ever to run for president of the United States. I don’t mean perhaps. I mean really. And if they win their party nominations, it will only get worse. She’s widely considered to be a liar, and a bad one. He’s considered to be vulgar […]

President Barack Obama once said he regrets not learning to play a musical instrument. Yet with those long, thin fingers of his, you can imagine him as a cellist, maybe a pianist, or perhaps he’d be playing some mournful and mischievous notes on an oboe. But the other day in an exclusive interview on Fox […]

Hush, young Bernie Sanders supporters. Shhh. Hillary Clinton’s campaign wants you to change your tone. And when you’ve changed it, tone it down. I don’t mind you making noise. But Clinton’s advisers don’t like it, and they talk as if you’re still in those pajamas with the feet. The message? Be still. Good night. Hush. […]

American presidential politics are certainly vulgar and loud, but what happened in Brussels reminds us that terrorism is politics too. Terrorism is the politics of bodies and blood and the screams of the innocent asking why. The West has been taught this again and again, and Tuesday the lesson was offered by Islamic State in […]

Hillary Clinton will not be elected president of the United States. Why? Because she can’t win, that’s why. And the sooner you figure this out, the calmer you will be. She wants desperately to win. She’s endured painful decades of Bill, years of Barack, eating all the insults like so many sins and swallowing them […]

The Republican presidential campaign — and that vulgar candidate debate in Detroit — bring us to the root of the thing. The mandrake root, if you will. The Republican coalition is breaking apart. The GOP establishment’s hold on power and treasure is weakening. The Republican insiders are worried and angry, and they’ve seized on Donald […]

The problem with socialism, Margaret Thatcher is credited with saying, is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. But the late Mrs. Thatcher — heroic conservative prime minister of Great Britain — was too well-mannered to tell people what actually comes next. So I’ll have to do it. After socialists run out of […]

Call me a loser conservative, but Donald Trump is not my cup of tea. Rand Paul was the candidate I liked, one who suffered a charisma deficit, yes, but a conservative who actually referred to the Constitution. I thought he had a chance to attract young voters and realign the Republicans away from their war-party […]

There is a fair way to deal with the political battle over replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: Let the people decide in the November elections. Let the people choose a president in 2016, and senators — nine U.S. Senate seats are said to be in play — and go on from there. […]

There’s nothing like the warm, satisfying sound coming out of American presidential politics these days: The sound of Democratic and Republican establishments — what I call the Combine — being kicked by voters where it hurts. Right in the metaphors. Or, if that’s too vague, let’s just say the political establishments are getting it right […]