In recent days former Trump Secretary of Defense Mark Esper dropped a tidbit as part of his book huckstering that Trump had wanted to shoot peaceful demonstrators. Esper portrays himself as a hero because he didn’t order troops to fire. Then news came out that Jarod Kushner has a book coming out this summer in which he claims that he secretly saved America. They are far from alone. Continue reading Heroes Or Raw Sewage?
Tag Archives: Betsy DeVos
What To Do?
Q: What do you do if you write political op-eds and you are waiting for news to break? A: You write a catch up article. Continue reading What To Do?
Help God Help You
An old adage goes, “God helps those who help themselves.” Decades ago I learned the adage, “The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that it exists. I question the existence of God but the Republican Party claims to. (I’ll expand on that below.) The latter is simply logic. What does this have to do with 21st century American politics? Read on and you will see. Continue reading Help God Help You
Numbers And An Unknown
Today I want to go over some numbers that I feel tell quite a story. I will conclude with the X factor that the Biden administration is currently solving for. If I take some poetic license along the way I will blame it on the fact that I was not a math major. Continue reading Numbers And An Unknown
Pardon My Distracted State
I missed a lot of tidbits I wanted to comment on in the recent past. There are others developing seemingly constantly. I’ve been a bit distracted in the last week. It’s not every day that the sitting President of the United States assembles an anarchist mob in Washington and then dispatches them to attack the Capital Building while both chambers of the Congress are in session. In fact it has never happened before. As I begin what is sure to be an incomplete journey to catch up on recent events I invite you to come along. Continue reading Pardon My Distracted State