President Trump’s Coronavirus Guidelines – updated
I received President Trump’s Coronavirus guidelines on March 28, two days before they were to expire. I have updated the guidelines to reflect his actual words and conduct since the crisis became a...
View ArticleA year in and it’s worse than I imagined
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected, I was speaking with a despondent friend who despaired for the future of our country. I agreed that he was a repulsive and repugnant human being, but we should...
View ArticleSurprise! Trump campaign collusion with Russia is not fake news
Today’s big story is the indictment of a Donald Trump campaign chairperson for a range of alleged offenses by the United States Special Counsel, Robert Mueller III. An indictment is serious, of...
View ArticleThis is our President?
This might be understandable for the president of a high school student council. This is someone who has the nuclear codes. How much more can he embarrass us?...
View ArticleThe Clueless leading the Clueless
It’s hard to know where to begin with a week that marked the eight-month anniversary of the Trump Administration. Really. It has only been eight months. Friday’s headline news was the resignation of...
View ArticleTrump interrupts tweets about NFL to threaten nuclear annihilation
It takes a special person whose intellect is such that he can grasp a wide range of subjects and take nuanced and responsible positions on each. So here we have the President of the United States who...
View ArticleDACA “solution” is perfect Trump
The approach announced Tuesday by Attorney General Sessions today on the so-called “Dreamers” is archetypical behavior by Donald Trump. It encapsulates so many of his characteristics: lack of...
View ArticleHow you Make America Great Again
How you Make America Great Again: Divulge classified information concerning ISIS to the Russian Foreign Minister; While in Israel, disclose – without prompting – that Israel was the source of the...
View ArticleProof Trump isn’t colluding with Russia
Why are these men laughing? The Russians, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, are probably saying “How did we luck into this fool?” (There was a time when when I spoke...
View ArticleTrump continues carnage against truth
I once represented someone on a disciplinary charge who was accused of unleashing a stream of vulgarities against a manager. He vehemently denied doing so. When I asked if there were any witnesses,...
View ArticleScoring a Trump presidency
When I put my head in my hands while reading Gail Collins in the Saturday Times, my wife said I had to stop reading the news. While I have largely avoided broadcast news since November 8 in favor of...
View Article“Lock him up!”
The Washington Post reported today that Michael Flynn, the retired general picked by Donald Trump to head the National Security Agency, “inappropriately shared” classified information with foreign...
View Article34 days out and it’s worse than I thought
I did not have high hopes for a Donald Trump presidency. He is the most manifestly unfit person for that office in my lifetime and, no, I have not forgotten about George W. Bush. But I also thought...
View ArticleHave we lost our collective minds?
We have apparently reached a point in our democracy where any ridiculous conspiracy theory will be given currency. There was a time when such theories were reserved for the denizens of the fever...
View ArticleElection post-mortem
I guess Hillary wasn’t the electable Democrat after all. The next time someone uses “electable” as a reason for supporting a candidate, think of this election. And also 2004 when that was a prime...
View ArticleIn defense of locker room talk
My first time in a locker room was in 7th grade when I started junior high school. We had mandatory gym class and had to wear a white T-shirt, blue gym shorts with the white stripe and a jock strap....
View ArticleTopics for next debate
Syria North Korea Iran Iraq Libya Israel and Palestine ISIS Al Quaeda Unarmed black men being killed by police Police being killed in ambushes Income inequality Recovery from 2008 economic collapse Tax...
View ArticleClinton devastating in debate
I haven’t followed boxing for years, but early in last night’s debate, Hillary Clinton caused me to start scoring it as if it were a boxing match. If memory serves, there is a “10-point must system”...
View ArticleStart to general election campaign a major embarrassment for media
NBC held a “Commander-in-Chief Forum” Wednesday night in which Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appeared separately in half-hour segments. Moderator Matt Lauer, whose credentials appear to be based on...
View ArticleThe makings of a Democratic disaster
Great news on the polling front from Quinnipiac. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are basically tied in crucial swing-states of Pennsylvania and Florida and Trump leads in Ohio. National polling is...
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