Archives for January 2019

Back so soon… News items that speak an unusual turn of events: This is a follow up on my ‘Opinion 1/20/19’. Those current events together comprise an unusual change of tide, particularly the sharp turn toward in-our-face socialism. In that context, two more events take on meaning greater than the sum of its parts The […]

The government shutdown: All reasonable people ask “why?”. The hard right and left are hunkered in. While I see the wall as a 19thcentury response to a 21stcentury problem, I see the arguments of both sides. For Trump, as much as he claims that the shutdown is about the wall, it’s not. Trump is the […]

I’ll be short and sweet about ‘The Wall’; the wall being the product of the five billion in borrowed funds put into bricks and mortar. To the Dems, it’s a colossal waste of money or more accurately, a leverage point in the next rounds of war in Washington. To the Trump base, it’s a no […]