‘18 and Change’
For those of you who cynically say,’ it doesn’t make a difference who the President is, both Parties are the same,’ welcome to American fascism. Do any of you truly believe that a President Hillary...
View ArticleMerrick Garland and Loretta Lynch must have Split a Bottle of Scotch Today.
In the past few days the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Chuck Grassley(R-Iowa), has lambasted the Democrats on the committee for delaying the appointment of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions....
View ArticlePartisan Politics?
I was accused of being a partisan today. I was standing in line at the local drug store, buying a healthy bag of candy, wearing my Obama 2009 Inaugural t-shirt. Betty White’s clone looked back over...
View ArticleSome Heroes are not in Books
I was born in Washington, DC in 1956. I came into this world under the harsh lights of Freedmen’s Hospital. For non-native Washingtonians, it is now known as Howard University Hospital. At the time,...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do if Your Boss is a Liar?
I spent the past 4 days watching Kellyanne Conway and Paris Dennard eat their boss’s words. I could almost hear in the far-off distance Donald Trump’s puckered lips parting and end a phrase with the...
View Article“Don't make an enemy of a Friend”
The first President to be impeached in this country was Andrew Johnson. The tumultuous tenure of Mr. Johnson was dotted with miscalculations, crude language and persistent heckling. Johnson in order...
View ArticleLittle White 'Lie' House
Over the weekend, Congressman Ted Yoho (R-Fl.) told Wolf Blitzer, that he would not jump into the controversy about Mike Flynn possibly lying to VP Mike Pence. This of course concerns the possible...
View ArticleTricky Dick and the Don Con
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”― Mark Twain.In December of 1972 former President Richard Nixon, declared the press, an “enemy”www.theguardian.com/... The parallels between the...
View ArticleThe Attempt to Humiliate April Ryan
April Ryan has a been a journalist for 27 years and a distinguished White House correspondent for twenty of those years. Except for the late Gwen Ifill, April Ryan, may nationally, be the most...
View ArticleThe Gears of Government Grinding to a Halt
The White House machinery has slipped a gear. President Trump declared the White House hierarchy and personnel, “a fine(sic) tuned machine.” This was on the heels of his National Security Adviser’s...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of the Constitution
The GOP is running out of strawmen, they told us the military would never recover if we allowed, “the gays in.” The world would end if same-sex marriage ever became legal; President Obama and Bill...
View ArticleDon’t Hate the Game Become a Better Player
When the Occupy Wall Street movement began in September of 2011, I remember the pride the un-organizers took in saying there is no leader and the movement will seek its own meaning. That is a fine...
View ArticleHow Putin Reverse Engineered the Republican Smear Campaign
He is just a celebrity with no real experience, he has a secret agenda that will destroy the country. His appeasement of our enemies will hurt us all…When Barack Obama announced in February of 2007...
View ArticleTrump is the leak?
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was an embarrassing threat to the power of Steve Bannon. Sean ‘come on down’ Spicer, is the bane of Donald Trump’s ego, because he [Spicer] is being...
View ArticleThe Music Man
In the 1962 film ‘The Music Man,’ grifter Harold Hill came to River City with money on his mind and the gift of gab. For you youngsters, Hill went from town to town promising to organize a marching...
View ArticleThrowing a Rock and Hiding your Hands
The day before the commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, marking Bloody Sunday, Donald Trump accused the most important office holding black man in the history of this...
View ArticleRising from a Stumble
With White House press secretary Sean Spicer unraveling at the edges like a dime store rug, I would laugh but America is in danger of tripping and falling on its face. Day after day I read countless...
View ArticleWhy Read Shakespeare, When You Have the Cliffs Notes
White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, brought props to the White House daily briefing to help roll out the new Republican healthcare plan. Spicer acted as if the plague was just a fingertip away,...
View ArticleWhy the ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ has never meant more…
Writer Oscar Wilde wrote about the pitfalls of duplicity in 1895. Last Friday the Department of Labor Statistics issued the jobs report numbers for February. The March unemployment percentage fell...
View ArticleRachel Maddow thrown into Capone’s Vault
Rachel Maddow has been pilloried over the past 15 hours for revealing two innocuous pages of the 2005 tax return of Donald J. Trump. The comparisons to the April 21st 1986, Geraldo Rivera, ‘Mystery...
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