STILL SEARCHING FOR ITS PLACE… (in this new world order of things) America’s transition from its global preeminence in the 20th century, into this 21st one, has not been easy. Even as we approach the quarter cdentury of it, America
Donald Trump
TIPTOEING FORWARD… (…into some semblance of peaceful co-existence) Regardless of his twitter-feed style of personal invective and incivility, President Trump must be given credit for his performance at the recent historic summit meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s leader Kim
RESETTING THE NORMS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEAL-MAKING… (…by threats of economic blunderbuss blasts and corrosive quick-lime invectives for emphasis) President Trump’s executive order to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal has reset the norms for international deal-making. Rather than applying conventional
A RESURGENCE OF CULTURAL REGRESSION IN AMERICA… (…epitomized by an amalgam of White Supremacy with Hitlerian ideology) Most of us are not just disturbed but also confused by its seemingly sudden appearance among us because it seems so far removed
EVER MORE REVELATIONS… (…of possible Russian connections of the venal kind) The latest news disclosing the President’s young son’s positively responding to contacts initiated by Russian operatives, resembles a dripping faucet, which no plumber’s spin-work can fix. It’s just ever
RUSSIA, RUSSIA…RUSSIA… (…fixating on finding a “Russian Connection”) If ever anyone needed further proof that politics, as we practice them here in America, are just as dirty a tit-for-tat game as can be found anywhere else in the world, the
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL… (…who’s the faux-new-iest of them all?) In the latest escalation of his war with the news “media”, Mr. Trump’s calling it an “enemy of the people” shows that were it not for our Constitution he
TAKING A SHOT TO TRANSITION FROM AN ERA OF SUPER-NANNY STATISM… (…by moving into a brave new world of hard-money corporate style governance) When it comes to wanting “change”, we Americans tend to go to extremes by throwing the baby
LESS DISSING WOULD HAVE HELPED THIS ELECTION MEDICINE GO DOWN (…epithets, insults, and invective did not serious debates about issues make…) No one we’ve talked with about this coming election next week looks forward to it. This presidential election cycle
WRONG HEADED COMMENTS ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT… (…apparently prove that ignorance is bliss when it becomes an issue) Donald Trump’s recent comments about the second amendment…if Hillary is elected the judges she’ll appoint will do away with it…show that he’s