Clowns in Politics: News and Notes magazine features commentaries and opinions about USA politics and influential cultural events.
Clowns in Politics: News and Notes magazine features commentaries and opinions about USA politics and influential cultural events.
Nothing in the world gets the attention of the press like scandal. This flows straight into the idea that there is no such thing as bad publicity. But, not so fast. Scandal and publicity are two different things, and the…
The Chaos Presidency of Donald Trump just rolls right along sowing distrust and discord amongst the different sectors of America’s population. The on again, and then off again, tariffs have the markets roiling even this week. There’s a drunk fool…
There is no better time than right now to reflect upon the danger of having conspiracy theorists working in high places in the United States government. Measles has latched upon the Texas landscape, no doubt, the result of gullible, unwise…
A full week into April 2025, and once again, Donald Trump’s disastrous 2nd term is dominating the headlines as usual, with news about off-the-radar negotiations, already going on with countries that have been shock-and-awed by the president’s non-sensical and foolish…
As discomforting as it is to admit, Donald J. Trump is the guy in the White House right now. He’s brought along a tremendous amount of cultural baggage to begin his second term. The big orange cheeseburger loves to divide…
One of the timeless tropes in comedy is the notion of the incompetent jerk. Everyone with any experience in life has encountered the arrogant asshole who thinks he or she knows it all and is above any kind of criticism.…
The news just comes daily. It does not stop. Every 24 hours it seems, there’s yet another mention of an American hero or cultural icon who has been scrubbed from a government website. The last such victim was none other…
A strange event occurred in Washington, D.C. last week. City workers began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza. The admittedly awkward and poorly designed monument to the summer of 2020 when the world railed against the video-recorded, in broad daylight murder,…
The recent announcement by NBC Nightly News of Lester Holt’s coming departure from the prestigious post, has caught America by surprise. There was little indication the move was coming. It has not been leaked whether the exit was his idea…
The still linked – but not for long – NBC/MSNBC media conglomerate must believe that non-white people are a problem in this moment in our nation’s history where the law-defying and jerk POTUS is adamant that DEI is bad for…