David Mastio
National Opinion Columnist at Kansas City Star
National Opinion Columnist for @KCStarOpinion/McClatchy & Editor of The Point Fmr @DCExaminer @WashTimes @USATODAY @DetroitNews @VirginianPilot @TheCenterSquare
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1 day ago |
kansascity.com | David Mastio |Melinda Henneberger
Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo (L) shakes hands with Zohran Mamdani after participating in a Democratic mayoral primary debate on June 4 in New York City. Mamdani have appears to won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Pool Photo by Yuki Iwamura/UPI Editor's note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives.
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6 days ago |
miamiherald.com | David Mastio
Short and sweet. That’s the best way to describe President Trump’s several-minute-long update on U.S. military action in Iran. Short and sweet is also what Trump hopes U.S. military involvement will be in Iran. In fact, Trump says if Iran doesn’t retaliate, the U.S. involvement is already over. That is far from clear. While Trump said that the strikes were successful, one of the targets was a large cave and tunnel complex called Fordow that is buried under a mountain.
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | David Mastio |Melinda Henneberger
Editor’s note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives and respectful debate. DAVID: If Donald Trump has a superpower it is in being a disrupter. With two keystrokes, — “W E” — on Tuesday, he sent the whole foreign policy establishment into a tizzy. “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.
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1 week ago |
pressdemocrat.com | David Mastio
Donald Trump sounded the right notes in reacting to the horrific assassination of a Democratic leader in Minnesota. His comments about the killing of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband are worth quoting in full from Truth Social: “I have been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers.
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1 week ago |
kansascity.com | David Mastio
Donald Trump sounded the right notes in reacting to the horrific assassination of a Democratic farm-labor leader in Minnesota. His comments about the killing of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband is worth quoting in full from Truth Social: "I have been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in Minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against State Lawmakers.
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This is appalling.
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RT @mattyglesias: You don’t get authoritarian behavior like this just for fun, it’s ultimately the only way to entrench an agenda whose cen…
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