Trump / Politics
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,...
THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GURANTEE FREE SPEECH! That is absolutely correct. The phrase “free speech” never appears in the US Constitution or any of the amendments to it. What does appear, and only ONCE is “Congress shall make no law … abridging the FREEDOM OF...
Now, I am not an attorney, but the Constitution was written so that most educated people could read it and understand it. So, here goes… For all of you Originalists out there, let’s take a look at the US Constitution and Impeachment. There are only SIX instances of...
As we approach the final Presidential debate this week, we can expect to hear about how great the economy was prior to the pandemic. I chose to look at the data comparing the first three years of the Trump economy to the final 3 years of the Obama economy. I have...
LEAVING THE WHO. THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN So, Mr. Trump has announced that we are pulling out of the WHO. He claims that, in his opinion, the WHO did not do enough to alert the US on the problems associated with COVID-19; they didn’t do it early enough, and they relied...
As the president has said many times about almost every foreign country in the world regarding trade, “they are ripping us off”. What he means is that the trade imbalance with almost every other country is negative; we buy more from them than we sell to them. Mr....
Why Trump, Alabama and Dorian is such an important event The last few days have seen a fascinating glimpse into Donald Trump. It is a perfect, concise and encapsulated example of why those of us who oppose the current president are so concerned and fearful of what he...
A modest proposal on preventing the poor people of Central America from becoming a burden to the United States of America It is sad to walk through the urban areas of this great country, and see the streets crowded with illegal immigrants surviving off of the public...
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, OH MY!!! Well, well, well. Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of NYC. I have heard for 9 months from the Republican faithful about Mr. Trump: “He was elected by the voters; give him a chance; let’s see what he does.” Mr. Trump won the...
Mark Twain: “That's the wonderful thing about science. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture from a trivial investment of fact”. Here are some facts (things that are demonstrably true, supported by evidence): The US military has built up its presence in the...