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,...
by Celia Rivenbark | Jan 7, 2019 | Weekly Column
I like Elizabeth Warren because she’s never wavered when it comes to calling out the banking bad guys. She’s hardworking, earnest and I’m certain if you looked in her purse you’d find lipstick, mints and a tattered wad of Kohl’s...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 24, 2018 | Weekly Column
It’s no huge surprise that Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is being investigated for possible financial abuses. That’s just another day at the office for the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. At issue is whether the $107 million collected from...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 17, 2018 | Weekly Column
When Nancy Pelosi stepped out of the White House after a contentious televised meeting with Donald Trump last week, she whipped out her designer sunglasses and, with a barely-there smile, used both hands to put them in place before walking briskly toward her...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 10, 2018 | Weekly Column
As much as I enjoy reading liberal newspaper columnists and listening to the high-minded rants of TV’s progressive pundits, I must admit I enjoy, even more, lately, the lonely but persistent voices of true conservatives. Not the screechy, preachy...
by Celia Rivenbark | Dec 3, 2018 | Weekly Column
I don’t know why you hipster whiners are crying in your cruelty-free IPAs after hearing the latest report warning of the devastating impact of climate change expected in the next 80 years. The report, involving 13 federal agencies and more than...
