by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 18, 2019 | Weekly Column
Although I was born and raised in the South, I never knew a soul who, in the tortured words of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, “put shoe polish on my cheeks, not a lot because that’s real hard to get off…” and pretended to be African American....
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 11, 2019 | Weekly Column
We now join White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the James S. Brady Press Room where she is hosting a rare afternoon briefing for news reporters. Sarah: “Good afternoon everyone. I’m here to answer your questions in a forthright...
by Celia Rivenbark | Feb 4, 2019 | Weekly Column
I wish I could say I was surprised the five conservative judges on the Supreme Court –Gorsuch, Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kavanaugh—recently voted to support Trump’s obsession with banning transgender people from military service. In one of probably...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 28, 2019 | Weekly Column
The nation is gripped by “tidy” fever. Again. Didn’t we already go through this five years ago when diminutive domestic diva Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” sold nearly 10 million copies? Artful...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 21, 2019 | Weekly Column
I was amused to read Ivanka Trump and Jared (“Knuckles”) Kushner walked out of a movie theater, apparently in a huff, midway through watching “Vice,” a deliciously dark biopic about former vice president Dick Cheney. It may be the...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 14, 2019 | Weekly Column
I thought I was bad at math but President Trump is even worse. How else can you explain his pronouncement that “4,000 known or suspected terrorists were stopped at the southern border last year” when, oopsie, we now know the number was…6. I mean,...
