Note 1: Watch my take on Trump’ inauguration on this week’s Trump Watch. Note 2: We are putting together a luncheon get-together in downtown Boston after the oral arguments in Ian Freeman’s appeal. Wednesday, Feb. 5. Details forthcoming. ***** Longtime Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson’s new article about a “second Gilded Age” in America gets […]
Just before he leaves office, President Biden is commuting the prison sentences of 2,500 people who have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Biden stated, “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too […]
NOTE: If you haven’t already done so, check out my new show “Trump Watch.” ****** During the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, many points have been brought up to oppose his appointment, including his supposed defense of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes in Iraq. Unfortunately, however, no […]
Last August, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was freed by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange with the United States. Russian national-security state officials had arrested Gershkovich on March 29, 2023, on charges of espionage on behalf of the CIA. In a secret trial, he was found guilty and later sentenced to 16 years […]
My favorite freedom quotation is by Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” That statement perfectly captures the plight of the American people. Owing mostly to the indoctrination they receive in the government schools to which their parents were forced to send them, most Americans honestly believe […]
Ironically, two seemingly unrelated articles in today’s New York Times reflect much of what is wrong with the United States, at least in an economic sense. One op-ed, titled “The Tragedy of Joe Biden,” is by Peter Coy, a regular columnist for the Times. The other one, titled “A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration […]
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela. Quoting a State Department statement issued in January 2021, she points out that the Cuban communist regime […]
According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100. […]
If there is any beneficial aspect to the Pentagon-CIA torture center, prison camp, and kangaroo “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is that it stands as an ongoing, constant reminder to the American people as to the tyrannical governmental system under which we live. This is an especially important for those Americans who love […]
The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by federal judges, Trump’s pardons will be upending not only the entire prosecution-and-conviction scheme […]