February 11, 2021

Speaking of incitement...

We are a nation of laws, including one prohibiting insurrection.  A citizen charged with and arrested for the crime of inciting insurrection (a felony) in Washington, D.C. would be tried under Title 18 of the U.S. code, with insurrection pu...

November 18, 2020

Trump-backers hurt wilting California journalist's feelings

I subscribe to the L.A. Times.  The paper misinforms, and its politics stinks, but I like the sports section for keeping up with the Dodgers, mostly, ever since I was a kid.  Baseball never stops, except for the occasional strike,...

December 24, 2019

Where liberal newspaper-readers can get the real story on Trump and Ukraine

Pending Pelosi sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, Trump is impeached.  Big deal.  At least Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chief who got rich off Ukraine, has a chance at a pardon.  Let's hear it for ...

November 26, 2019

Never let some sucker give Trump an even break

Writing a short letter to the L.A. Times, Jack Spiegelman took issue with impeachment.  "It's a non-issue."  The stock market is Jack's only issue.  He'd be perfectly happy voting for the re-el...

November 21, 2019

Why it's okay for Trump to want Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden

I just finished reading "Aides Bring Impeachment Inquiry Directly into the White House" by Sarah D. Wire, Molly O'Toole, and Del Quentin Wilber, writing for today's edition of the Los Angeles Times.  This article...

November 18, 2019

Trump has a funny way of kissing up to Putin

According to Doyle McManus, Vladimir Putin will "move to center stage" at this week's impeachment hearings.  McManus writes, "Trump has been indulgent, even deferential toward Putin."  He goes on to say, ...

September 25, 2019

The once-great Democratic Party is kaput

In 1944, Norman Matton Thomas, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America, said, "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of th...

January 16, 2019

How much sympathy for pregnant illegal border-crossers is too much?

Back on November 26, Maryury Hernandez, a God-fearing pregnant migrant from Honduras, entered the country with her husband and three-year-old son in search of "better lives" for her children and "to keep them safe" (so she makes t...