Tag: politics
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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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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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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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