Lindsey Graham Exits Presidential Race, Pledges To Continue The Fight For...
Lindsey Graham — the hawkish Republican senator from South Carolina — announced that he would suspend his campaign for president in a video message released Monday morning, but pledged his commitment...
View ArticleGeorge Pataki, Centrist Former N.Y. Governor, Quits Presidential Race
George Pataki, former New York governor, exited the race for the presidency with an announcement Tuesday.“While tonight is the end of my journey for the White House as I suspend my campaign for...
View ArticleThis Year In Crazy: 2015 Belonged To The Wingnuts
Each week we round up the looniest examples of right-wing bigotry, idiocy, and bizarre behavior in our “This Week In Crazy” column. Now it’s time to take stock of the entire year — which gave us more...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Welcome Back To The Nuthouse
And we’re back. The right wing kicked the year off by freaking out in spectacular fashion to President Obama’s executive actions on gun control, indulging in some pandering to those precious Iowan...
View ArticlePop Culture Warned Us About Trump, Part 5: ‘The Waldo Moment’
Welcome to the fifth part of our ongoing series, examining all the ways that the artistic and entertainment communities have been trying to warn America that Donald Trump (or someone like him) was up...
View ArticleGOP Candidates Snipe And Spar In Combative Sixth Debate
In the fraught final two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, a rowdy, rambunctious group of agitated Republican candidates rehearsed their talking points and took well-honed snipes at each other in the...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: No Sleep ‘Til Iowa
This fitful circus of folly we call the election cycle enters its next phase in two short weeks — when the first votes are actually cast. We’re in the pre-Iowa homestretch now, and everyone’s losing...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: A Down And Dirty ‘Squirmish’
Did you know that you can measure your patriotism by the number of times you’ve seen 13 Hours? It’s true. If you haven’t seen 13 Hours yet, it means you hate America. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,”...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Put The Devil Back Into Hell
666 is not only the number of the Beast — it is also, it seems, the number of weeks this election cycle has been going on. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Farewell to Iowa
Trump’s depressed Iowa fans, Michele Bachmann’s wild-eyed prophecies, and the revenge of Cliven Bundy! Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Live Free or Die Sane
The Iraq War lies that just won’t die, another bigoted county clerk, an insipid hissy fit from a Glenn Beck acolyte, and Ted Nugent’s remarkable transformation! Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: The Scalia Memorials
Last Saturday, Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, leaving a vacant seat in the nation’s highest court and opening a vacuum into which conservatives poured their wildest obstructionist agendas and...
View ArticleThis Week in Crazy: Castratos for Cruz
Mandatory office guns, a tropical torture chamber, Vladimir Putin battling Satan, and some very dedicated Ted Cruz supporters. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Everyone Get On the Trump Train
This week saw Trump’s very super Tuesday, the whole-hearted embrace of the GOP frontrunner by the white supremacist community, and perhaps the most unhinged, vulgar Twitter feed in Texas getting...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Will The Real Klansman Please Stand Up?
There may be multiple Rafael Cruzes but there can be only one David Duke. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of the...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Infinite Mess
Donald Trump is poised to win the GOP nomination, with theocratic loon Ted Cruz in second place. What could be worse than these two specimens? Their acolytes. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Lies, Damn Lies, And Dogma
The War on Christians is heating up, Bernie Sanders is the new Hitler, and Michele Bachmann is still talking. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted,...
View ArticleThis Week in Crazy: Libruls R Dum
Radical libruls have taken over our classrooms, our judiciaries, and the media. But they can’t take over my column! Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony,...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Rush To Delusions
Hypocrisy, zealotry, and gobbledygook. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of the increasingly unhinged right wing. Starting...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: A Tale Of Two Zealots
There is a civil war being waged between conservative crazies. Two shock jocks will enter the Thunderdome (i.e. RNC Convention) and only one will triumph. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Our Long National Nightmare
Prognostications of the apocalypse, puritanical fools, and punditocratic blowhards. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: The CIA-Beyonce Plot Revealed
Extremist pastors, conspiracy mongers, and the greatest political speech since Washington. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: ‘May God Have Mercy On Our Nation’
We are gathered here today not to mourn the death but to puzzle over the life of the Grand Old Party, laid to rest this week when a tangerine-toupeed interloper from the Big City stole the nomination...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Armed And Ludicrous
Trump-mania, gun-nuttery, and the world’s scariest reality show. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the loony, bigoted, and hateful behavior of the increasingly...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: ‘Every Sexual Deviancy You Can Imagine’
The pitfalls of feminist journalism, sage hiring wisdom of Donald Trump, and the deviant sexual practices of Hillary Clinton. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Thank A White Man Today
The post-campaign follies of Glenn Beck, the “imams of sexual sharia,” and the sad fact that white men just get no respect. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly update on the...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Driverless Cars Were Invented to Kill Conservatives
Driverless cars may not be for you if you have a conservative bumper sticker and don’t wish to be driven off the road by a malevolent computer programmed by spiteful liberals. Welcome to “This Week In...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: GOP Makes Its Bed With Trump
The satanic Switzerland tunnel, the classic it’s-not-Trump-it’s-you racism feint, and the Republicans’ devils bargain with the Donald. Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s weekly...
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Or, How Not To Respond To A Tragedy
When 49 people were massacred in a gay nightclub in Orlando last weekend, the vast majority of Americans responded with outrage, sympathy, and resolve to do better. And then there were these people....
View ArticleThis Week In Crazy: Hear A White Supremacist’s Advice For Trump
The Religious Right civil war, the devil’s in the “no-fly” list, and a white supremacist tells Trump exactly how to “Make America Great Again.” Welcome to “This Week In Crazy,” The National Memo’s...
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