Michael R Shannon

Donald Trump: For Rent

Donald Trump has upended presidential campaign conventional wisdom yet again. It was traditional for candidates in former years to wait…

10 years ago

Roadside Hook–Up Results in Slow Bern

Most of us don’t normally associate tow truck drivers with humor. Anger, outrage, despair and generalized hostility, yes, but humor,…

10 years ago

Ruining the Movies One Text at a Time

It must have been the result of what Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr derisively terms a “nationwide search.” AMC Theatres…

10 years ago

An Education in DC Driver’s Ed

Normally cost is the last consideration when an unelected bureaucracy is in pursuit of “safety.” No price is too high,…

10 years ago

From the Stalls of Montezuma: A New Front in Culture War

North Carolina has a reputation for going the furthest in the pursuit of a lost cause. The Gettysburg battlefield features…

10 years ago

Now Humans Are Just Along for the Ride

I have seen humanity’s future and it’s cargo. Not shipping cargo, but being cargo. One cannot pick up the newspaper…

10 years ago

Trump Incoherence Spreads to Pro–Life Supporters

It’s rare to discover an individual in public life whose verbal gaffes are so contagious they spread to the normally…

10 years ago

Republicans Advocating Mob Censorship

I wonder what Ted Cruz hoped to gain from blaming Donald Trump for the leftist mob that forcibly shut down…

10 years ago

What’s Next? Voting Absentee from Prison?

Maryland Democrats are hoping that allowing 44,000 ex–cons to vote in the next statewide election will accomplish what cancer failed…

10 years ago

A Leftist and Her Money Are Soon Parted

San Francisco leftists have once again decided to inflict another socialist utopia on an unsuspecting South American nation. What’s more,…

11 years ago

Two Words that Would Seal Trump’s Deal for Me

I am well aware Donald Trump isn’t a conservative. What’s more, I’ve seen no indication that he’s interested in adopting…

11 years ago

Trump Tizzy in Virginia Long Before Primary

The Virginia Republican Party has discovered it’s one thing to issue a political “Do Not Resuscitate” order and quite another…

11 years ago

I Wish My Column Was ‘More Addictive Than Cocaine’

Cocaine is commonly recognized as the baseline for degradation clichés in the US. A product, pastime or vice has made…

11 years ago

The Typo that Bloated a Nation

For decades Americans have been laboring under a misconception that has fueled the growth of Jenny Craig, stretched spandex to…

11 years ago

Will the GOP Establishment Kill Trump With Kindness?

In 1998 I worked in a long–forgotten Venezuelan presidential race that has an important lesson for Donald Trump. The contest…

11 years ago