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 […]

If you look at the numbers of how China’s military and economy stack up compared to the US, you could be excused for thinking that they represent no threat to your way of life; however, this presumes a military equation. They don’t have to go head to head with us to make a huge change […]

Like most people caught up in a football game, there’s a tendency to get drawn into the wave of the moment. One team is winning, and the other is losing, and one has the momentum. As a Ravens fan, time has taught me that there is no score that cannot be undermined in the last […]

Hello Northeast Reader, it’s been awhile; since September 8 as per my check just now. This is about that interval and about the process of writing or not writing these articles. Over the past 30 plus days, I worked on multiple articles and choose not to finish them. Some were nearly finished. Of course, everything […]