Something is going on in America. The thought posse is out, scouring the countryside for wrong thinking. It’s the French Revolution all over again with all kinds of Madame and Monsieur Defarges, on high alert for anyone who says or thinks the wrong thing. Never mind “I disagree with what you’re saying, but I’ll defend…

One recent afternoon, while messing around in the kitchen, I watched a Grade C movie—The Phenix Story.  It’s about John Patterson, who ran for Alabama attorney general after his father is murdered by a criminal syndicate operating in Phenix City. Patterson and his father are intent on ridding Phenix City and Alabama of corruption. Patterson…

  Without a doubt, wearing a mask is inconvenient, uncomfortable and often annoying. As a matter of public health and safety, however, experts agree that covering one’s face when in the company of others will help contain and diminish the spread of the coronavirus. There’s more at stake here, however, than public health. Some significant…

A friend asked me recently if I ever wrote about anything other than Donald Trump. The short answer is no, I’d like to, but it’s hard to get around him to write about anything else. Sooner or later he manages to make everything, every story, every incident, about himself. Now, speaking of Donald Trump, the…

Before this nonsense gets too far along, let’s get one thing perfectly clear: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (USA, Ret.) admitted under oath—twice—that he lied to the FBI, a federal offense. He lied about a conversation he had before assuming office as national security advisor in which he reportedly told the Russian ambassador to the United…

Donald Trump likes red meat. According to a variety of news reports he likes steaks and Big Macs. So it should come as no surprise that when several meat packing plants threatened to close or did close because their workers had contracted the Coronavirus, Trump invoked his presidential powers to order the plants to stay…

Donald Trump doesn’t like the U.S. Postal Service. He threatened to veto the $2 trillion stimulus bill if it contained any money for the postal service. The $13 billion grant the original bill had in it was removed and a $10 billion loan was substituted. Trump has been complaining about the postal service for some…

This most certainly isn’t what Donald Trump had in mind, but because of his willful inaction, misrepresentation and mendacious imagination America has achieved a first—in the number of reported deaths from the Coronavirus. That’s only one among a number of grim ironies emerging from this crisis. Donald Trump, early in his presidency, took on the…

Several days ago, when I started this entry, it began with the old adage that a week in politics is a lifetime. My focus then was on the turnaround that had rescued Joe Biden’s candidacy from the graveyard and driven Bernie Sander’s to the brink. That was a few days before the corona virus overshadowed…

We’re now in the fourth year of the Trump regime, with the daunting prospect that we’re only halfway to its end. The Democrats are flirting with disaster, while Trump continues to undermine institutions that are supposed to safeguard us. If anyone honestly thinks it isn’t so bad, here are at least three areas where we’re…