“You’re hired. No, wait a minute, you’re fired. You just said the wrong thing!” Okay, so that’s an over-simplification, but the Trump administration has perfected the art of hiring someone and then letting them go as soon as they sneeze in the wrong direction. Sneezing here means saying something that goes against the administration’s zeitgeist of the moment. PLAY THE […]
President Trump has called “tariff” the most beautiful word in the English language, and he has staked his economic fortunes on using tariffs to level the economic playing field with other nations. He announced his first round of tariffs on “Independence Day.” April 2. Five months later, on August 29, an appeals court ruled that, as president, Trump lacks the […]
Latest news from Moscow is that a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy is still possible. They forgot to add, “when he turns over Ukraine to Russia.” More telling is the continued brutal bombing of Kyiv. Even the headquarters of the European Union (EU) was hit. PLAY THE AUDIO BY PUSHING THE BUTTON BELOW This begs the question: What concessions by […]
Apologies for my ridiculous revision of William Shakespeare’s immortal saying: “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell the same.” A rose definitely smells the same no matter what you call it, but when your company depends upon a logo to keep the faithful coming through the doors and then changes that logo to become more […]
I hate to make this comparison because it involves terrible suffering and the loss of human life, but World War II — despite its daily terror, destruction, and widespread annihilation — gave the world a chance to hit the reset button. This time around, war cannot “save” us (I told you this was a horrible comparison) because it would mean […]
Now, let it be known that I’m a Trump supporter and voter (three times) and nowhere near a Never-Trumper, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have beefs with the man. One of the beefiest areas for me is the man’s monologues. For instance, I just got through watching Trump the President introduce his seventh cabinet meeting. Naturally enough, he went […]
The man can’t stop when he’s ahead. Donald Trump is now removing a Federal Reserve Governor because of alleged mortgage fraud. The governor, Lisa Cook, is also the only woman of color on the board, so his action is doubly fatal. PLAY THE AUDIO BY PUSHING BUTTON BELOW Not only will his action draw the remaining governors together to oppose […]
How old is the “F’ word, the one all of us think of when the initial “F” is mysteriously floated? The other evening I was watching a TV series set in the 18th Century, and the head of the East India Company kept repeating “F—” this and “F—” that. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. The “F” word I’m referring […]
Indeed, there is coordination up and down the Trump Administration, much as the Commander-in-Chief and President often pretends that he had no prior knowledge about something that just took place. The raid of John Bolton’s office may have been the most recent example, but an ongoing example is the Defense Department’s hamstringing of Ukraine when it comes to taking the […]
In 2008, California voters approved a measure authorizing $10 billion in bonds to fund a bullet train that would run from Los Angeles to San Francisco in its initial phase, and then from San Diego and inland cities to Sacramento in Phase II. Completion was set for 2020. Other than some work in the Central Valley, however, the project stands […]
