growls from Manhattan
After failing on everything they tried in the first six months of the Trump administration, the Republicans who have all the power in this government are now looking at tax reform. Tax reform? How the hell do they ever expect to get
This blog has been accused of spending a lot of time attacking industry and big business. Okay! Guilty! But there’s a very good reason for that. You don’t even have to go to big tobacco, oil, coal, gas, pharma or any of
Harvey has laid waste to South East Texas and now the focus has to be the long, expensive and enervating process of rebuilding the cities and the lives there. If one thing has stood out amid the devastation it is the heroism
After the mess in Charlottesville recently all the pundits seem to agree that Trump is loath to attack the bigots and white supremacists because they are a significant part of his base. Maybe they are, but that’s not the real reason. The
Everyone knows the saying It takes a village, and it does, but what they don’t realize is that sometimes it takes a catastrophe to get that village up off its ass and functioning. As they always do in this country disasters bring
Donald Trump went out in front of the American public the other night and made the speech he had to eventually make. This was something of a revelation. He spent an awful lot of time justifiably praising our armed forces, and while
Trump the bigot stated, it is “so foolish” to be taking down monuments of confederates in this country. He’s wrong about that as well as about his equivocation of Lee and Washington but it goes further than that. Article 3 of the
A recent study of fossil fuel subsidies, published in the journal, World Development, has shown that industries in that sphere now benefit by over $5 trillion per year in subsidies. That doesn’t even take into account the cost of damages to the
Amidst all the noise surrounding the mishandling of North Korea, Donald Trump has managed to get another swipe in at Iran and the treaty Obama negotiated with them. This writer really can’t understand why our presidents love to attack Iran. Sure their
It’s pretty much impossible to do everything wrong. Even the greatest f***ups in history got something right once in a while but right now Donald Trump is trying to put the lie to that statement, big time! Now there’s a good