The War's Come Home -- Iraq Redux
The victims of school shootings are, like the civilians killed by bombs in Iraq and the people lynched in the U.S., collateral damage–incidental to the main purpose. The object of mass extermination is...
View ArticleA TSUNAMI OF REVULSION
We were not moved by the trickle of despair that leaked out of Iraq. Let us be clear. Ultimately, law enforcement is carried out by the people who govern. That is, the citizens. So, the public is the...
View ArticleKAVANAUGH THE ENFORCER
I have ling been accused of “generalization,” of going from a particular incident/event to a larger issue. So be it. There are some matters and tendencies that are universal. Each human is unique, but...
View ArticleConundrum
Here’s a conundrum. In 2018 there were about 9000 more registered voters in Glynn County, Georgia, than in 2016. Yet, the total number of voters both years was about 35,000.So, did people who were...
View ArticleStone, Manafort and Maverick
Why is it that the relationship between Manafort and the Maverick, John McCain, has been largely overlooked? While the fact that Manafort worked out of the Moscow office of McCain’s Congressionally...
View Article“The smell of mendacity” through the decades
While I have not infrequently referred to the current chief executive as the TV-made president, a popular culture creation, today’s reference to him as “big daddy” in Another diary adds a new dimension...
View ArticleWas it a swindle or a scam
This week Mexican imports are in the news. Fiat Chrysler and GM are looking to pay tariffs on the cars they manufacture in Mexico and sell in the U.S. Donald J Trump explains the rationale:In order not...
View ArticleNo Conflict of Interest
On January 11, 2017, nine days before his inauguration as the chief cook and bottle washer of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump held a lengthy press conference at which he announced any...
View ArticleUkrainian Connections
Ukrainians have been buying up nearly defunct manufacturing plants in the U.S. One sits on the banks of the Ohio River in West Virginia next to a coal fired power plant that has been shut down....
View ArticleCall Time on Capitol Hill
Why is call time on Capitol Hill not considered corrupt? Because the people who write the laws have decreed that it is not.Are there conditions attached? Yes, our public servants cannot use either...
View ArticleMaking Extraordinary Rendition Ordinary
That is what the American President was proposing to the President of Ukraine—that an American citizen, or two, be subject to the mercies of a foreign judicial system known to be corrupt.Extraordinary...
View ArticleHoist on their own petard
For four decades the U.S. Congress has been pretending that the POTUS or Commander in Chief sets policy and directs the affairs of the nation. Indeed, there has been some speculation that the real...
View ArticleThe Ventilator Explicated
xxYouTube VideoAn oral rendition of a post by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.Here you go folks... for those people who don't understand what it means to be on a ventilator but want to take the chance of going...
View ArticleAddressing Conservatives
Today’s offering by the Lincoln Project is addressed to Conservatives. Though, I am not sure they are entitled to claim serving the country and following the Constitution as singular virtues.And the...
View ArticleMediocrity Stings
A couple of days ago, The Brunswick News here on the coast of Georgia printed my letter concerning the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be a justice on the United States Supreme Court. The problem...
View ArticleThis is big; Bloomberg announces a shift
Ever since Richard Nixon officially severed the strings between currency and the relatively scarce mineral, gold, there has been an effort to achieve scarcity by an alternate route. Why? Because,...
View ArticleMissed One? "Seriously"
So, I went to check a video featuring wild bobcat sounds (they are commonly called that because their tails look bobbed) and the program suggested I might like this Lincoln Project ad. I had not seen...
View ArticleTrumpelstiltskin Has a Fit
Why? Well, he really hates being told what to do. The presidency was supposed to make him immune from the law, especially from orders to return what he borrowed. That he had signed up to carry out a...
View ArticleDumpy Trumpty has done nothing
Like his antecedent on the wall, poor Donald has done nothing. He was, however, enabled by a political establishment and financial gurus who promised him impunity, immunity and an increasing...
View ArticleMMT Rising
James K.Galbraith sounds downright optimistic. Now that we have had a second distribution from the Treasury, MMT is being validated daily. He is probably right that the attitude towards Kelton is an...
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