June 8, 2020

Trump saved DC from the mob

 On the night of Sunday, May 31, I read about the burning of the church near the White House, and, as a Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters employee[i], I received a work email stating that our two HQ buildings next to that church ...

June 1, 2020

Big-city mayors don't want to end the chaos

  Those who followed President Trump's tweets on Sunday may have seen an astounding video of nine or ten police cars, mostly SUVs, most of them in a single-file, convoy arrangement, abandoned on a wide street in what looks to be a lo...

May 30, 2020

The riots are not about the police

Judging by extensive photo and video documentation from the scene, the looters and arsonists in Minnesota were up to one half white, largely of the (forgive the crude expression) "scrawny commie stoner" variety.  The same is true ...

May 29, 2020

Charge Twitter with a campaign finance violation

This piece will not provide a deep historical background of the Trump-Twitter dispute.  We know what is going on.   After years of ignoring propaganda, misinformation, threats, and slander from “bad actors” such as China, Iran...

February 14, 2020

Will the coronavirus seal Trump's re-election?

Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, I heard from two Democrats — one a stereotypically artsy-fartsy gay friend, the other a political science professor — how good it was that George W. Bush, rather than Al Gore, had been elected president....

January 15, 2020

Iran to collapse? Be careful what you wish for

If Iran's stale regime comes apart, and it will at some point, the entire country may follow. Few Americans are aware that Iran is in fact a multiethnic empire.  Native "proper" Farsi–speakers, located mostly in the m...

April 19, 2019

Why Crazy Bernie will lose in 2020

Fifteen months from now, Democrats will nominate their least electable (with the possible exception of Kamala Harris) candidate for U.S. president, who will then go down in flames.  This is not just because he's a Castro-loving nut who trave...