Tag: politics
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Time for the President to go? We Might Just About Getting There
As I hope you know if you’ve read my previous thoughts on political matters I am no radical. I want things done according to Hoyle, as close to the rules as possible. I do not like political histrionics, exaggerations, or one sided obvious distortions. So I rarely take up anything approaching an extreme decision without(I…
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Uncertain Dissenters and Iranian Options
For a columnist or blogger who writes about politics and international affairs, Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. He does/says something almost daily that irritates someone and that outrages many with its lack of wisdom, its lack of understanding or, sometimes, its lack of humanity. He makes one statement after another that…
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Enough Silence
I mean myself here. I have said little–not nothing, but not very much–about Trump’s war against Iran. I realize it is a complex issue and that if it comes to simply two sides(“we should have” and “we shouldn’t have”)a reasonable person might find some arguments to agree with on each side. But it is NOT…
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Trump and Separation of Powers
The President’s recent actions in two main areas have started him(or advanced him)on a road toward conflict with the US Congress. They have also brought to national attention questions concerning what our constitution says and what it means, what assumptions have been made about it, and what our leaders should do about those assumptions, about…
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Confronting Trump–Greenland and Minnesota
I have often spoken about how much I admire the British weekly publication, “The Economist.” Well, I’m going to do it again. The current one arrived in Monday’s mail and it has on the cover a picture of a shirtless Donald Trump riding a polar bear. In its top-of-the-page list of this issue’s features, the…
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LBJ, DT, Vietnam and some history
Don’t worry, this won’t be real long. I’m too hyped on everything that’s going on now to stay patiently at the computer for too long. But I have to get some of these opinions down in print and out there to be read. The situation seems to change almost hourly, but as nearly I I’m…
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1929-A Christmas of Hope and Doubt
No one, I suspect, will ever explain totally satisfactorily the Great Crash of 1929. It occurred , more or less, in late October(bad month for the market) and wiped out trillions(maybe billions?) of dollars of invested wealth. Many books have been written on this from John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Great Crash” about 2 generations ago,…
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Dems Disssenting–From Each Other
I think you may know that I admire greatly the TV work of Fareed Zakaria who is on CNN just about every Sunday morning and some other times. I don’t agree with him all the time, but I’d say I agree 90% or more. This past Sunday morning was different. I disagreed strongly with his…
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Hey, What Does That Mean?
As a former instructor in history and political science I have a few comments to make about the meanings of words and how people are likely to interpret them. This includes a real concern about how just about all aspects of the media use some words without any explanation of what the words mean. They…
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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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