Her H is for hypocrisy
Just as was shown to be the case with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her senatorial staff, male executives who work at the Clinton Foundation make 38 percent, or $109,000, more than their female counterparts, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of the foundation's 2013 IRS filings.
The foundation's highest paid executive, Frederick Post, the director of "sponsor and marketing," made $484,000. Meanwhile, its highest paid female, Chief Executive Officer Virginia Erlich, made only $201,000 over the same period.
Further, eight of the 11 foundation executives are men, all of whom make more than $200,000 per year. Erlich is the only female to make over that threshold.
Meanwhile, the candidate pledges on her website "to ensure equal pay for women." As recently as last week, she said "it is way past time to end the outrage of so many women still earning less than men on the job."
O say, you can't see
Beginning today, flags of "any kind" have been put on the list of items tourists can't bring onto White House grounds.
They can view, according to the office of the president, the South Lawn, the Rose Garden, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and, of course, First Lady Michelle Obama's vegetable garden, but they can't bring along, among other things, selfie sticks, diaper bags and flags.
Many of the items are no-brainers - backpacks, tablets, knives - but the flags one is a puzzler, observers say. ISIS flags, of course, would be unwelcome, but a tiny U.S. flag seems fairly harmless.
Of course, the resident of the White House is the man who infamously refused to wear an American flag pin for so many years because, on the campaign trail in 2007, he said it became a substitute for "true patriotism."
Then-state Sen. Barack Obama said he wore one right after 9/11 but soon discarded it.
"My attitude is that I'm less concerned about what you're wearing on your lapel than what's in your heart," he said during his first run for president. "You show your patriotism by how you treat your fellow Americans, especially those who serve. You show your patriotism by being true to our values and ideals. That's what we have to lead with is our values and our ideals."
Apparently, he later reformed his thinking because he now wears the lapel flag, even if he considers it a faux show of patriotism.
Sandbagged
Just as it was at Emory University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the name alone of Donald Trump at Tulane University apparently is frightening.
The words "Trump" and "Make America Great" were scrawled in paint across a wall of sandbags at the school's off-campus Kappa Alpha chapter house recently, but persons alleged to be members of the school's football team were videoed taking the sandbags and throwing them into the street.
The wall itself, despite the Republican candidate's vow to build a wall along the country's Southern border, was not related to the event. As part of the fraternity chapter's annual tradition, it has pledges to build a wall around its property each spring prior to its "Old South" formal ball.
In the wake of the aforementioned other schools, where Trump's name in chalk sparked fear, an offended Tulane student said on Facebook that "writing Trump in large, red letters" somehow "most directly mocked the experiences of Latino immigrants and workers throughout our nation."
The squishy university administration took no action, saying only that it encourages the "free exchange of ideas and opinions" but the local chapter's action "sparked a visceral reaction in the context of a very heated and divisive political season."
The administration perhaps should read up on the First Amendment.
Dude, where's my truck?
In another campus incident of shoot-first-ask-questions-later, students at Iowa State University grew holier-than-thou last week when several spotted a truck with the words "White Power" written on the back of it.
Student Nick Thuot, whose Facebook page is full of white privilege criticisms, posted a photo of the truck and claimed "racism is still rampant in this community and in our country." He even phoned the police, who told him "they would send an officer over to investigate." The campus's Latino organization, Latinos Unidos for Change, also picked up the drumbeat, captioning the picture, "Today in racism and ignorance."
However, two people wrote on Thuot's page, suggesting the writing on the truck might be "planted" evidence or an obvious prank.
The truck's owner, Derek Jensen, didn't learn about the incident and subsequent kerfuffle until a high school friend tagged him, ironically, from Thuot's Facebook post.
He was easily able to clean off his truck, did file a police report and said he would prosecute the graffiti artist. So far, he is not a suspect.