When you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find nominees, sometime you knock bits of scum into the brew. So it is with Trump. Serious, qualified candidates won't apply, so you get bad jokes like Sam Clovis. Trump nominee Sam Clovis: 'As far a...could lead to legalization of pedophilia. The deplorables are now in the administration...

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich