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Democrats have long campaigned for public office on the divisive issue of group victimhood. There is no doubt that the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a historic event. Democrats believed that their next historic event would be electing Hillary Clinton as the first woman president and she campaigned by repeatedly asking, “Wouldn’t you like to see a woman in the White House?” Following the Clinton win, there would continue to be many more...
There are many “open letters to Donald Trump” written from such notables as Bill Nye (The Science Guy), consumer advocate and political activist Ralph Nader and astronaut Ron Garan to name a few. However, the open letter I commend to you today is, “An open letter to Trump from the US press corps” by Kyle Pope in the Columbia Journalism Review. Pope writes, “We, not you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers. So think of what follows as a backgroun...
Once upon a time the earth was flat. Or at least this was the scientific consensus at the time. Einstein’s theory of relativity is grounded in part on the fact that the speed of light is constant (energy=mass times the speed of light squared). Or at least this was the scientific consensus at the time. Scientists are now questioning that the speed of light is constant and some believe that fairly soon quantum theory and the theory of relativity could be fighting it out to deter...
One of the reasons I dislike Twitter is that one is limited to 140 characters per tweet. This caused President Trump to tweet, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” That came just after the New York Times published stories that indicated the FBI, NSA, CIA and Treasury Department were investigating Trump and his campaign staff. The Times topped off its stories with the headlin...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to trigger a partial nuclear option in 2013. He said the unprecedented move was necessary to fix a broken system. While Republicans bemoaned the fact that Reid’s actions were an exercise in raw power, Reid was playing a long game. He had just placed his party in a classic win-win situation. Although Republicans vowed to reciprocate when they reclaimed the majority, Reid knew they had never filibustered any judicial nominee who could wi...
According to a story in The Eastern New Mexico News, a group of young girls at a cheerleading camp in Phoenix took nude videos of a teammate showering. It is difficult to comprehend the published line that states, “The teammates then made fun of the girl’s body and posted the video on Snapchat.” Whatever term this mob of miscreants chooses to call themselves, “teammates” should be denied them. The article goes on to denote that the girls involved used the coach’s phone to ta...
U.S. Republican Congressman Devin Nunes is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Nunes is also a member of President Trump’s transition team. This latter point is of some importance to Nunes because he had received information that, “The intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.” Nunes announced that information at a press conference and then left to brief the president on these...
I have written before that when Hillary lost the presidential election, the Clintons lost their raison d’etre. Cracks began showing in the Clinton Foundation when they informed the New York Department of Labor that they intended to lay off all 22 of the employees working at the Clinton Global Initiative on April 15, 2017. The official reason for filing was, “Plant Closing.” The real reason was loss of product. You can’t sell political influence if you don’t have political...
On Feb. 19, the New York Times published a story that began, “American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump.” The story goes on to state that, “The FBI is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes...
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota, recently remarked on CNN, “I think that Donald Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately raise the question of impeachment.” Ellison went on to state that, “On day one, he was in violation of the emoluments clause. This is a part of the Constitution that says as president you can’t get payments from a foreign power.” The Title of Nobility Clause, also known as the Emoluments Clause, proclaims: “No title of nobility sh...
Last Saturday, the Democratic National Committee’s 447 members gathered in Atlanta to elect a new national chairman from a field of seven candidates. It was the first time since 1985 that there was a contested election for the position. Although seven candidates had their names on the ballot, only two of them had any chance of winning. Tom Perez, secretary of labor under President Obama, also has ties to the Clinton organization and had the backing of such political l...
The conflict between President Trump and the media once again came into public view during a press conference last week. Whether you agree with the president or not, you have to admit he has a valid objection as to how media presents news about the Trump administration. David French, writing in National Review On-Line notes that both the New York Times and CNN had major stories about Trump’s campaign team having repeated contacts or constant communications with senior R...
It is said that the homeless problem disappears during a Democratic presidential administration and only rears its ugly head when a Republican wins the White House. This is a normal and foreseen occurrence and therefore should not generate any headlines in the major newspapers. While reading the political blogs last Sunday morning the following headline from “The New York Times” caught my eye: “Thanks to Trump, the Doomsday Clock Advances toward Midnight.” My initial reactio...
In 1951, President Harry Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination. Thirty years later, when 11,000 air traffic controllers ignored his order to return to work, President Ronald Reagan fired them. This year, when acting Attorney General Sally Yates refused to do her job, President Donald Trump fired her. Individual federal workers have always had disagreements with their elected employers, and have resigned or left when the differences could not be resolved....
On inauguration day, MSNBC put together a panel led by Rachel Maddow that included Chris Matthews, Brian Williams and Steve Schmidt to provide live coverage of the occasion. The network would have been hard pressed to come up with a more mediocre group of has-been losers. Williams lost his NBC anchor spot on the “Nightly News” for exaggerating the details of his military travels during the Iraq War. He was suspended without pay for six months and is now working on MSNBC. The...
No “world-class” city can afford to be without a professional sports franchise. The franchise of choice appears to be a National Football League team. If you don’t believe the above statements, just ask the commissioner of the NFL. If you can’t get Paul Tagliabue on the phone, ask former Gov. Bill Richardson, who wanted to bring professional football to Albuquerque. Among the many things a pro sports operation brings to municipalities is opportunity for residents to vote thems...
On Nov. 9, the New York Times reported, “Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States on Tuesday in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that took relentless aim at the institutions and long-held ideals of American democracy.” This is an example of “news.” A man described as a “YouTube star and serial prankster” was recently escorted off an airplane for speaking loudly in Arabic to his mom on his cell phone. Adam...
What is happening to the president-elect of the United States is intolerable. News articles and editorials from major publications are referring to Donald Trump as a “Russian puppet” or as “Putin’s poodle.” They are further implying that Trump “could have an incentive to allow or launch a 9/11-style attack on the United States once in office.” Editorial writer Paul Krugman has written that, “George W. Bush came into office with questions surrounding his legitimacy that...
It was on Christmas Eve, just one year ago That the High Plains were bracing, for wind and for snow. When the temperature dropped and the snow started falling, We huddled at home, and Goliath came calling. He swooped in with a vengeance and grounded the planes, He stopped all the autos and halted the trains. He closed Interstate 40 for four hundred miles, And the wind blew the snow into humongous piles. Forty miles per hour, sustained, blew the wind, With gusts up to eighty, a...
Donald J. Trump continues to interview and select candidates for appointment to cabinet positions. One cannot help but ponder that very few of those Trump has selected have escaped scathing criticism heaped on them by politicians and the media. Sen. Jeff Sessions is pilloried as a racist. Georgia Rep. Tom Price is not only an opponent of women’s health programs, he is an enemy of the poor and the aged. Scott Pruitt is a “longtime enemy of the EPA” and has been a puppet of the...
Much is being made of the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote while Donald Trump “only” won the electoral vote. What major media refers to as demonstrators or protesters are in fact rioters who remain angry that they are unable to change the results of the election. Many are carrying signs with Trump’s likeness proclaiming, “Not My President.” One budding comedian on the internet posted a likeness of Hillary Clinton with the notation, “Not Anybody’s President.” N...
At one time in America we had financial crises that were reported as “panics,” as in the “financial panic of 1873.” Panics were considered too harsh a term to describe a financial decline so they became depressions, as in the “great depression of the 1930s.” Once again depressions became too harsh to define a financial downturn so they became recessions, as in “the great recession of 2008.” A recession is defined as a financial downturn wherein your neighbor loses his job....
Elections have consequences and some of them are unforeseen. In what NBC news described as a "maneuver that seemed to deliberately limit access to the media" the Trump family went to dinner. The president-elect had the impertinence to decide he was hungry after his spokeswoman told the press pool that his day had ended. One week after the election, the Trump administration was described by NBC as, "shaping up to be the least accessible to the public and the press in modern...
