Our exhausted brains and hearts cannot hold infinite suffering
Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 0 Comments • last year
Big Beautiful Bill passes major hurdle
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 25 Comments • last year
Late last night members of the House Budget Committee were summoned back to Washington for a 10 p.m. meeting to vote on advancing President Trump's big, beautiful bill, which passed the panel...
China blinked — and Trump won the first round of his tariff war
Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 13 Comments • last year
A whole new world
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 74 Comments • last year
President Trump is nearing the end of a historic middle east tour. Yesterday he was in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He strengthened relations with gulf state nations and completed business...
Lucian Truscott Threefer
By: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • last year
I followed Paul Krugman over to Substack when he retired from the NY Times . There I rediscovered some sources I'd lost track of when I stopped subscriptions to the Washington Post...
The Trade War Isn’t Over
Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • last year
Ummm... When did "pause" and "suspend" become definitive actions? Trump did not end his tariff war - he just suspended it for ninety days. In three months, he must either put up or shut up....
The art of spoiling Trump's deal: Sit back and wait
Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • last year
Vladimir Putin understands. He's Donald's BFF, but never cedes anything. Donald nods beatifically.
Canada's new PM already understands. He sat there mystified by Donald's blather... but...
We need to talk about extreme antinatalism Childfree doomsters believe life is suffering
Via: s • Op/Ed • 0 Comments • last year
Today's the day
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 94 Comments • last year
Today the SCOTUS will begin hearing oral arguments in three cases consolidated under Trump v. CASA that challenges President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for the...
On the road with Trump
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 38 Comments • last year
President Trump will attend a Gulf summit in Riyadh with 6 Arab leaders and then head out to Qatar later today. Yesterday the Saudis announced they would purchase $1 trillion dollars in...
A plea for leniency
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 150 Comments • last year
The Department of Justice has now opened an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, who led the state’s case against President Donald Trump in 2022 for fraud and falsifying...
A disastrous legacy
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 61 Comments • last year
In 1994 there was a movie called "The Hudsucker Proxy." It was a comedy about a corporation that deliberately installed a not so bright employee (from the mailroom) as the president of a...
All over the map.
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 51 Comments • last year
President Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia this morning, beginning a three-nation visit to the middle east and the first international trip of his second administration. Saudi Arabia is the first...
By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 13 Comments • last year
Tariffs, Tantrums, & Deals Made of 100% Tinsel: The Trump Trade-Triumph Mirage
Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • last year
Some Brexiteers are still claiming that leaving the EU was a good thing... despite all the economic indicators saying the contrary.
But hey!!
Reality is whatever you want it to be....
Donald Trump Is too Old to Be President, Yet Every Day, Live on Camera, We Get the Daily Farce of Pretending This Is in Some Way Normal
Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • last year
Trump knows exactly one thing: HE IS RIGHT!
Regardless of the topic or the moment. He is always right.
Anyone who disagrees should be imprisoned. "Lock her up!" "Lock her up!" He...
The Godfather of the Woke Right
Via: hallux • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • last year
Once again, Trump delivers
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 64 Comments • last year
At 10:00 AM EST today, President Trump will announce that he has the framework for his first trade deal. The New York Times and Politico reported that the agreement would be with the UK, citing...
The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts
Via: hallux • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • last year
100 Days of Action
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 95 Comments • last year
People like to take stock of a President's first 100 days in office. In American history there may be three which are most notable: Lincoln's first term, FDR's first term and Trump's second term....
China caves on 125% tariff for major US export
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 75 Comments • last year
The world's greatest manufacturer has begun to cave in to the world's greatest marketplace. Last week, China waived a 125% tariff on ethane imports from the U.S. It seems that there are things that...
On the Precipice
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 39 Comments • last year
The President is already at a crucial moment of his Presidency. Congress needs to legislate his agenda very soon. Intricate trade deals that normally take at least a year are up against a July...
Hitting vulnerable families from all sides, and then telling them to be less materialistic
Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 13 Comments • last year
Many elderly live exclusively from Social Security. Many younger people live from paycheck to paycheck.
Their grandkids and kids don't have "30 dolls".
When will MAGA_True_Believers...
The Resistance - the first 100 days.
By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • last year
Yesterday I examined Trump's first 100 days in office. It is only fair to take a look back at those who sought to resist Trump and the will of the American people in those first hundred days. The...
