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One out of three ain’t great–but the one is rather big(Keeping score on the President)
Donald Trump has a lot on his plate these days. To be more precise there’s the government shutdown, getting worse all the time–then there’s the trouble in the cities and his authoritarian response of using US Troops or federalized national Guard to “solve” it–and finally, there’s the Gaza War and his plan to end it.…
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Time for the 25th? No, but let’s look at it
The recent announcement of The White House ordering troops into Portland OR is not the last straw. We’re not there yet. But Trump is getting closer. As I have mentioned before he has, by luck or by careful legal advice, managed to stay clear of anything out and out illegal or impeachable. Likely that will…
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J D Vance, the Truth, and Political Violence
We all know the Vice-President has frequently had a slight(or more)issue with the truth. To use only recent memory, we can see it ranges from the ludicrous(immigrants eating animals in Ohio)to the seriously disturbing and dangerous(an out & out claim, in the wake of the Kirk tragedy, that the left is far more involved in…
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What’s in a (Trumpish) Name?
Any even casual observer of the American scene should know by now that the President made one of his curious, seemingly weird actions recently. He changed the name of the Dept of Defense to the the Department of War. Or he said he did. Now it turns out he didn’t–not exactly, at least, and not…
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Trumpological Studies
I was planning to go back to reviewing books and movies, but the various troubles of our world and our country have seized my immediate attention., I have decided to devote one more(at least)blog to studying our President’s behavior and its likely effects. I will be brief but intend to make points on several issues…
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The Reign of “Delayed Information–Trump, Iran, Alaska, etc–Well, You Get It
Now to be fair at the very beginning, I have to concede that nearly all–perhaps all–Presidents delay information on something, sometimes. There is no doubt here, Trump is not the first. But he seems to have raised the delay of information and the ability to act as if everything is OK to a higher art…
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Shock and confusion
I had been planning on writing on something else soon. Perhaps I still will. But I was grabbed by the story out of TN which has been presumably been widely read over the last few days. You may be familiar with it. I mean, of course, the TN execution of Byron Black and the ironies,…
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Trump Balance Sheet
President Trump has succeeded, as usual, in staying in the headlines, and as usual some of his methods of doing it are of questionable honesty or usefulness to the country. As usual, he is indulging his taste for bragging and , also as usual, some of the things he brags about appear not to have…
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The Depressing Story of an American President and a More Depressing Election
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, “Original Sin–President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again”–copyright Penguin Press 2025 314 pgs When the nation was gearing up, one way or another, for the most recent Presidential Election, it was common though not extremely so, to hear comments regarding Joe Biden’s capability of being…
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He Did It–What Was It?–And What Now?
Well, President Trump had his time with the Israeli-Iranian crisis. Whether it was good or bad for him I don’t know. I rather have the feeling that he largely enjoyed it, but not entirely. He may really not have wanted to go to war at first, then drifted, rather quickly toward a decision to commit…
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