The economic protectionist Peter Navarro, currently the driving force behind U.S. foreign trade policy, said war is good business in a Tuesday New York Times op-ed deifying Donald Trump for keeping open a heavy weapons manufacturing plant in Lima, Ohio. It was a publicity packet for Trump’s Wednesday visit to the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center […]
Donald Trump didn’t just stomp on democracy Friday by using the power of the veto to suppress a proposed bipartisan resolution to keep him from declaring a national emergency by decree, he took a crap on it. The irony here is that Trump was first to tell everyone his so-called emergency was more about expediency […]
The only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named for a Democratic president is on the chopping block despite there being no apparent reason to give it the ax. The proposal smells of petty Trumplandian spite. Democrats in Washington got the backhanded slap Tuesday from interim Department of the Defense Secretary Richard V. Spencer, a Trump appointee. The […]
MAGA, trust me, walk it backward, pay it forward, alternate facts, 9/11, read my lips, the buck stops here, remember Pearl Harbor and a chicken in every pot are familiar idioms that found a home in the colorful lexicon of American English. Idioms provide a way to describe important events without other thought. The smoking-hot […]
Donald J. Trump and his slippery minions have donned a new mantle: victimhood. Their cruel victimization was first revealed in a package of threats, tweets and complaints Trump authored over the weekend that accelerated to light speed by Wednesday after the gang that never shoots straight tripped over a strategy Trump can understand, obfuscation. Although […]
It has suddenly become fashionable among the left wing of the Democratic Party to attach “Socialist” to their political moniker, perhaps in the vain hope it will make their brand of benign political extremism more palatable than Donald Trump’s populist tripe. Very nuovo chic indeed! Self-described benevolent Democratic Socialists like New York’s newly elected Rep. […]
Roger Stone dodged a federal bullet in Washington yesterday. Donald Trump’s peculiar friend for 40 years was playing Groucho Marx in a D.C. federal courthouse, tweaking the nose of a federal judge and getting away with it. Only thing the situation needed for authenticity was Harpo honking a buggy horn. Sometimes having friends in high […]
