The 2024 Presidential election is now over, the new president has announced his choices for Cabinet positions, and members of the U.S. Senate are considering which of those choices they will approve and which they will disapprove. Theoretically, the...
It was during Donald Trump’s recent election that I fully understood that his opponents didn’t just dislike him but hated him. It was a hatred that was palpable and even unnatural. People, who are usually rational and mild manner turned into raving...
No matter what we may think of Donald Trump personally, I think we have to marvel about his resiliency and his inner fortitude to conquer all the adversity he has suffered in the last 10 years. His personal journey on his path to the White House...
The 2024 presidential election was admirably carried out. Around the nation crowds of voters waited patiently and politely, often in long lines, to add their ballots to those submitted by mail. Observers commented that there seemed to be a strong...
The leading issue of this election season seems to be attacks on American Democracy and its most sacrosanct institutions, including the U.S Constitution. This is a document every educated person my age understands as the Number 1 Guarantor of each...
Sometimes, I would love to scream, Stop the world I want to get off. It is moving far too fast for my age and temperament. I have an analog brain in a digital world. My late wife, a farmer’s daughter, had several down on the...
When the early reports first surfaced that there had been an assassination attempt on former President Trump, my first thought was that I was not at all surprised. For six months, I have been saying if all of these legal and political maneuvers to...
I published “Death by a Thousand Slurs” on January 10th, 2018. It focused on Trump’s performance during his first year in office and the media’s response. Now, over five years later, I am revisiting that essay because doing so underscores how the...
