Trump / Politics
An adult male who is 5’ 8” tall and weighs 205 lbs. has a BMI (Body Mass Index) of over 31 and is considered morbidly obese. If he gains another 10 lbs. over a year, his BMI goes up to 33. Terrible! Unless he is R.J. Harvey, the running back for the Denver Broncos. ...
Trump has announced that he plans to sue the AME Church for $8 Billion, and to remove its tax-exempt status unless it agrees to change its constant references to sin and slavery. Mr. Trump has accused the Church of using a book that imposes a liberal doctrine upon...
Perhaps you heard the statement this week by Justice Clarence Thomas: "At some point we need to think about what we're doing with stare decisis. And it's not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say 'stare decisis' and not think, turn off the brain,...
I, like many people in this country, have become concerned with the expansion of Presidential power that has accelerated in the past few months. I was taught in High School that there were three equal and separate branches of the government, and that the purpose of...
I want to make my position clear. And I think that in specifics, you will agree with me. DIVERSITY When my children went to school, I wanted them to be exposed to a variety of children. I did not want them to go to school with only Jewish kids, I wanted them to...
I could be a lot more open to the BBB Act if Republicans showed that they were really interested in cutting spending. There is certainly at least 10% waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense budget. And at a time when we are not involved in any wars around the world,...
It seems so simple. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. We know the sex of the baby immediately at birth and we write that down on the birth certificate. Done. No questions, no issues, that is the “fact”. However…. Like most things in the real world, it...
Do you wonder where the most gun murders occur? If you listen to politicians, it occurs “somewhere else”. Here is the data from the CDC for the most recent years. The gun-related murder rates for people of all ages, recorded as murders per 100,000 people in the 50...
“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.” Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was born in NYC IN 1915. He worked in Radio in the 1930’s when he changed his name to Fred Friendly and moved to television in the 1950’s working with Edward...
THE MOST PRO-BUSINESS LEGISLATION IN DECADES Lost in the political posturing about the Build-Back-Better Act currently being negotiated and expected to pass, is the fact that it is the single greatest pro-business piece of legislation considered in the past 50 years....
Case #1: Make it harder for citizens to vote by mail. Republican legislatures around the country are passing bills to make it more difficult to vote by mail by requiring new applications each voting cycle, increasing ID rules, etc. The problem is that except for...
No, it isn’t the legislative history, nor the scandals real and imagined, it is actually far worse. Since inauguration we have seen a very ugly chain of statements from Republicans. Ron Johnson said that he wasn’t frightened by the peaceful Trump protestors on Jan. 6,...