Bits & Pieces #72
I have been meaning to start a column with this for weeks but every time I came close, it seemed that Bernie Sanders would abandon reality and refuse to retire from a field on which he had won great victories but was
Category: Politics
Military Spendthrifts
For those of you who love to listen to Donald Trump rattle on about making America great again and how he’s going to rebuild our military to make it the greatest force in the world, a few facts could be in order
Dealing With Wrong
President Obama visited Japan this week, making him the first American president to enter that country, since WWII. This trip gave Obama’s right wing opponents an excuse to start whining about how he was going to apologize for America dropping the bomb
How Dirty Can It Get?
Everybody’s marveling over how the two leading candidates have such low approval ratings; Hillary at -53% and Trump at -73% but that’s nothin’. This campaign is just getting to the dirty part and neither Hillary nor the Donald is going to walk
The Economy Looks to the Election
The touchstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her stated reason for the presidential run is the fiscal regeneration of the American peole. So what else is new? Every politician and his brother is currently making the same statement. At least half of
Bits & Pieces #71
Trump, the ultimate outsider, has hired Paul Manafort; the ultimate insider to run his campaign. Manafort claims that Trump has run away from the field because he has distanced himself from those who messed up the system. Okay, so where does
Election Views #9
Party over country, or country over party. That is the question and in this case the answer will reveal who are the real patriots and who are the phony flag wavers, more interested in their own goals than those of the
Bits & Pieces #70
Listened to Reince Priebus try to doubletalk his way through a discussion of the primary voting process now going on with the GOP. He just isn’t up to it. Maybe no one is. The problem is that none of the party
The TPP Considered
The full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership has finally been released. Of course the obvious fact that has been revealed is that much of what its critics were attacking before they read it, isn’t really in it, or true at
The View From the Right
I don’t know if any of my readers realize it but part of the research that goes into this blog is searching right wing and conservative sites for their input into what they see happening in this country and the world.