Tag: Trump
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What’s in a Name?
Continue Reading →To use a variation on the theme of Shakespeare’s more elegant version, “A skunk by any other name still stinks.” “No, no” they say. “We are not in any way, shape, or form supporting Project 2025.” (Link to full version…
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Conservative Transformation: Embracing Due Process
Continue Reading →An amazing transformation has taken place with conservatives. They have a newfound appreciation for due process. This from a group who decried legal loopholes (their old term for due process), decriminalizing marijuana (took money from the pocket of private prisons…
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Supreme Cowardice
Continue Reading →TRUMP v. UNITED STATESCERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUITNo. 23–939. Argued April 25, 2024—Decided July 1, 2024 With the recent 6-3 SCOTUS decision, or lack thereof, primarily consisting of waffling, sniveling, and…
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The 2024 Presidential Election: A Call for New Candidates and National Responsibility
Continue Reading →“There’s small choice in rotten apples.” William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew America is in an existential crisis. Quite honestly, it is of our own making. We face a Hobson’s choice for our next President. We have lost control of…
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Inquiring Minds Wanted to Know
Continue Reading →Back in November, I wrote this piece asking for someone, anyone to explain the Trump standing in the polls. https://atomic-temporary-37778625.wpcomstaging.com/2023/11/25/in-a-cool-calm-cogent-manner/ I simply wanted someone to explain why Trump remained popular and the reasons Americans would or should support him. I…
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In a Cool, Calm, Cogent Manner
Continue Reading →Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.—William Shakespeare As many of you would suspect, I am troubled by the early poles showing Mr. Trump’s significant lead over other Republican candidates (well,…
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Another Open Letter to Joe Biden
Continue Reading →Dear President Joe Biden, I’ve written to you in the past in this form of an open letter. (Promise Me, Joe) and I am compelled to write once more. The time has come for a new generation to rise to…
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Deja Vu on Steroids
Continue Reading →Please share on social media, the more we discuss the better we understand each other From the years 1973 and 1974, I have vivid memories of watching the Watergate Hearings with friends (on a black & white TV where we…
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Lies, Truth, and Consequences
Continue Reading →Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 5, Sc. 4 Who knew? All these years, I believed the First Amendment protected the right to publish or say anything you like without government interference. And while…
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The Albatross (or Cuckoo Bird) Around America’s Neck
Continue Reading →The events of the last few months—the classified document hoard recovered by search warrant at Mar-E-Lunacy, the indictment (indicatament) from NYC decades in the making if one knows anything of history, and the more than likely upcoming indictments of a…