As my father said, when President Reagan was shot the day before my seventh birthday:
“Pay attention son, this is history.”
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I hope y’all are watching this tonight
The Only Hope For America: A video commentary by Yours Truly
Have had a lot of thoughts over the past few days and weeks about the upcoming presidential election, and the general state of America.
If you’ve ever read “Isaiah’s Job” by Alfred Jay Nock, and you found it resonated with you, then this video may interest you too.
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All that I will likely say about former President Donald Trump being indicted
Kindly allow me to boil down certain recent events into something that can be readily grasped. And I say this as someone who has never voted for Trump and likely never will.
The people applauding former President Donald Trump’s indictments don’t know what the (BLEEP) they are cheering for.
The United States is entering a dark place. We have already been poised to cross that line for a very long time. Now it is barreling headlong into the cave.
America is headed for grief.
And idiots are clapping and howling in delight as we do.
This is about larger matters than “we gotta get Trump”. But the ones screaming loudest probably don’t want to be bothered to be concerned for that. What is befalling the former president right now is not the disease itself, but a symptom. And I would be saying that regardless of
New article at American Thinker: respect for a fraudulent president
American Thinker this morning published my latest article. “Must We Respect a Fraudulent President” says what it means and means what it says: in light of the significant amount of evidence that chicanery most foul took place during the November 3rd election, how can anyone in Joseph Biden’s position claim to have a mandate to be the leader of the free world?
Here’s a clip:
...The matter of unjust measures is brought up at least nine times in the Old Testament. “Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good,” reads Proverbs 20:23. Absent reverence for holy writings, it still is to be noted: the ballot box is sacred. To violate it is to breach the contract that countless Americans have fought and suffered and died for.
And so circumstance not seen for a century and more has come about. We are faced with
Maybe the last real post I make about this election
The following post isn’t going to endear me to some people. Indeed, I removed it for awhile after it drew fire from some who I greatly respect. I sincerely hope that, as Thomas Jefferson beautifully put it, this will be no reason to depart from friendship.
I am a historian and an observer of human nature. And what comes now, is from a place I earnestly believe is an objective perch. Or at least, I try to be objective. I will write this and let future readers decide on the merits of this essay. Because that’s who I’ve always written for as much as those in the here and now.
Ready? Here goes:
My friends and family are well aware of a policy I have regarding elections. It is very simple: I do not vote for a candidate who creates and broadcasts a negative campaign commercial aimed at an opponent. ...
Various thoughts about the Trump impeachment
As I write this it’s 1:35 a.m. and it’s all over but the cryin’. Sometime in the next eighteen hours will likely come the final vote on Impeachment 2020 and the end of this mess. Donald John Trump will remain President of the United States for another year and quite possibly more than that.
I’ve never doubted the outcome. Trump had this in the bag on a party-line vote alone. But I never thought that the final days of this fiasco would be such a bewildering demonstration of both brilliance and ignorance. This impeachment will be studied for generations to come about how not to impeach, as well as how to effectively counter one.
So, admitting that I only took time to watch the trial proceedings itself during the past few days, here are some sundry musings…
1. “Abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” are not impeachable offenses. I ...
Look! Second article at American Thinker in 48 hours! Not kidding!
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| Just think: a few years later chunks of that wall were being sold at K-Mart. |
Friends, I have a secret to tell. I’ve waited decades… decades… for the chance to use the word “perestroika” in a written piece. Not even during college and my senior history thesis – about the Russian space program and how it had tracked with that country’s politics since Nicholas II’s reign – did “perestroika” get to be employed.
I guess “perestroika” on some weird level is for me, what “smock” was to Hobbes:
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| Credit: the peculiar genius of Bill Watterson |
Anyway, the considerate curators of conservative-ish contemplation at American Thinker have published a second article from me in as many days, and I am extremely thankful for that. “The Fall of the Deep State and 1989’s Fall of Communism” relates some parallels between the events that transpired across Eastern Europe thirty years ago
... The photo that convinced me Trump will win again in 2020
It’s a line from a They Might Be Giants song: “Politics bore me”. And that’s where I’ve found myself lately in life: dulled out of my skull by politics. Or at least politics as most people buy into. For quite awhile I’ve noted that I’m more interested in ideas, not “ideologies”. And one comforting consequence has been that during the past four years I’ve been detached and aloof from just about anything pro or con about President Donald Trump. To love him or hate him? I’m not playing that game. There is more to define a life than which politician a person sides with or against.
That doesn’t mean I’m an uninterested observer of realities. And in substantial part, I do approve of President Trump’s policies and actions since coming to the White House. Some still, I do not approve of. But he’s earned my confidence so far, and much
... Lesser-known executive orders of President Trump
As everyone knows, Donald Trump wasted no time in getting to work signing executive orders once he was seated in the Oval Office. And we all saw the pics of him putting them into effect. However most aren’t aware of a few of the orders he issued after his inauguration.
Fortunately, you’re in luck! Because though I had completely forgotten about these until last night, I was in San Diego when Trump took office and was making sure to thoroughly document the early days of his administration. So here, for what may be the first time for many Americans, are some of the other EOs that President Trump immediately moved upon…
The “No Celluloid Left Behind” Act:
Bringing whole new meaning to “pork barrel politics”:
Just putting into law something we already knew:
Even President Trump’s WORST opponents must surely be applauding his wisdom on this one:
He got this
... So ummmm… a letter from President Trump arrived…
Several months ago, following a mass shooting incident and some remarks he had made about mental illness, I composed a letter to The Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. In the letter I shared some understanding that I, as a person with bipolar disorder, have come to discover. Namely, that mental illness is a condition of the mind, and not the heart. Over much of the past year especially I have worked alongside many who also have varying types of mental illness. Not one of them is a person I would ever consider to be a danger to others. But I also do realize that there is a stigma, and maybe it will be with us for a long time still. And I suppose there is little that just one guy with a blog can do about that.
Even so: bipolar disorder has wrecked havoc with my ...