Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, the former Boeing technocrat Donald Trump selected to run the Defense Department, is desperately pounding the Pentagon’s war drums to the dismay of the generals and admirals at the Puzzle Palace who have to send Americans into harm’s way. It is reasonable to assume that Trump is directly behind […]
Trump’s National Security Affairs assistant is former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, the combative former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who sports an anemic walrus mustache and a know-it-all attitude. The Washington Post is claiming the former king of my-way-or- the-highway is knee deep in doo-doo for rushing a U.S. Navy battle group to threaten […]
Theodore Roosevelt said that “when they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty.’ ” As prescient as Teddy obviously was, he probably didn’t perceive that one day his clever observation would apply to a sitting Republican president. And why should he? America’s sacrosanct electoral […]
There has been an uptick in reports that Donald Trump is getting ants in his pants worrying about what the so-called Mueller Report will reveal. That revelation is scheduled to come later today. Almost 400 pages of findings plus thousands of supplements called Form FD 302s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s standardized supplemental reporting form, […]
“Lawyers have an adage. ‘If the law is against you talk about the facts; if the facts are against you talk about the law; if the law and the facts are against you talk about the prosecutor.’ ” — Lawrence C. Walsh, independent counsel, Iran-Contra investigation, 1986 to 1993 EDITOR’S NOTE: Second of two parts on U.S. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: First of two parts on U.S. Attorney General William Barr and his secret life with the CIA leading up to his first time in the position under President George H. W. Bush, with Part Two coming soon. Stay tuned. To tell the complete story of William Barr’s intrigues requires a book. This two-part […]
Ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand like Trump often does — they wouldn’t be able to breathe! That exonerates Donald Trump from being an ostrich. Greater flamingos however do. They bury their bills and often their entire heads in wet sand to suck up muddy water looking for bottom feeders they thrive on. […]
