Tag: politics
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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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An Open Letter to Michael Smerconish
Dear Michael, First of all, I am a fan who rarely misses one of your telecasts and who thinks the people who denounce you as being a toady of one side or the other are full of crap. That established, I need to dissent from some–not all-you had to say about college education recently. For…
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Ohio Blows One
It is officially Senate Bill 1 but it may become Ohio’s mistake no 1. Passed recently by the State Legislature and signed by Gov Mike Dewine, the bill would do a number of things, some reasonable but most not, particularly the more important ones. It grew out of(mostly, anyway)a dislike of DEI policies. Now I…
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Trump & the World
This is hardly a new topic. It has consumed US news commentators for about two months now and likely will continue to do so. I have, indeed, written about it a little bit. But today I find myself in the situation of needing to write (I dislike getting out of practice by going too long…
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Trump and Other Nations–What’s Next and Where Are We Going Now?
There is so much to say about the Trump Administration that I don’t know where to start. I guess I’ll begin with foreign policy or whatever we should call Trump’s actions to and words about other countries. Not that there’s not a lot to say about domestic issues, but let’s put that off–a little while.…
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Don’t Ask What’s Next–Please
Frankly I don’t want to know –yet. It will become clear to all Americans, to all the developed world soon enough. What I will do is to(briefly)comment on what’s going on in the Administration and on what the effects may be. Previously, I commented some on Trump and domestic affairs. I was going to to…
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He’s leading us–but where?
My immediate response to the new administration was to be critical and I was in the one blog I’ve done on the subject so far. But I thought it might be a good idea to wait a bit longer before going forward with such blogs. After all people do change(but seldom), and I am always…
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Should We Pardon These Pardons?
I was disappointed when I heard on inauguration day that President Biden had issued a number of pardons just a few minutes before leaving office. This seemed to me to be bad timing and likely a bad idea.. When he pardoned Hunter I stated that I thought it was a mistake and that he shouldn’t…
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Panama, Canada, Greenland and Donald
As Trump gets closer and closer actually to being President anxieties are, I think, increasing among his non-fans about what he plans to do. The obvious split in his supporters between MAGA types and Musk types is to me not a cause for great joy in that it’s almost one of those contests where you…
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