Small thoughts Cohen: Supposedly, Cohen had his last of three days in front of Congress today. What a change from the past week! In the various news feeds/aggregators that I review, up until yesterday, Cohen was regarded like Alexander the Great riding in on his elephant to claim his slaying of Trump. Then, on Drudge, […]

Things that are bugging me Press Freedom: Your major tech companies are all biting at the bit to control your mind via news. Microsoft is now providing censored news. Facebook and Google have been selecting and filtering news for you for some time. Apple is making more inroads into their control of news; “services”. Of […]

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 […]