Photo credit: Shutterstock All people are sinners and have their flaws.  One that particularly rankles me is hypocrisy.  When Biden was president, the MAGA crowd went nuts going on and on about Hunter Biden, the laptop, the corruption, the connection to Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company. I thought Biden’s critics made an excellent point and was amazed the way Democrats seemed to dismiss all this, as if it didn’t matter — or maybe even never happened.  The Democratic circled the wagons around Joe. Now that we’re back in Trump 2.0, his kids are getting rich doing crypto deals — (foreign…

I thought Trump was exceedingly bold to go after Iran. Iran has been causing trouble for decades. But then I heard the Trumpsters were surprised that the Iranians were mining the Strait of Hormuz. If true, this reveals massive hubris and incompetence. I’m sure the military anticipated this. They war-game everything. Let’s hope and pray a decision by Trump and Hegseth doesn’t result in excessive American deaths and another “forever war.”

Kristi Noem has been fired. I for one won’t miss her. I think all the “act tough and be sure to share it on social media” stuff was WAY overdone.It was all theater. But real lives were impacted by all the cruelty. American citizens, exercising their right to protest, got shot and killed.Innocent Americans came to live in fear. Some of the deported ended up in horrible jails — or countries they didn’t come from. Even Trump — who has excellent political antennae when it comes to knowing which way the wind is blowing — knew it had all gone too far.  If the…

Whether you like him or loathe him, I think one has to admit Trump put on quite a show at the State of the Union.  Many heroes were recognized, the list of accomplishments was long and impressive. He asked Democrats to stand if they believed protecting Americans was more important than protecting illegal immigrants. I don’t understand why, but the Democrats chose to remain seated. Trump cleverly made the Dems seem, once again, out of touch.  They should have leapt to their feet.  

The FCC is going after Colbert and The View, demanding equal time for  candidates not invited to be interviewed.  OK.  Let’s be sure the same is required of conservative media outlets regulated by the FCC.

The Bondi hearing was quite pathetic. Clearly, there’s a cover-up going on regarding Epstein. She repeatedly attempted to change the subject, but will this strategy really work in the long term with Republicans? I believe that all Americans are tired of the nonsense, and the Great Reckoning is coming soon. And we thought Watergate was bad. 

It is sad to watch what is happening to America. Everyone is so angry. I think there is a silent majority of those who would prefer to see another way. If the extremes on each side could, for a moment, see their own contributions to our country’s dysfunction, that would be a start. You can’t solve a problem until you recognize it first. To my Republican friends, I say this: America is tired of the chaos, the brute force, the lies, the theatrics, the corruption, the cruelty and the ugliness. You have allowed yourselves to be taken over by the…

It’s always very risky making predictions in the early days after a military strike. America was gung-ho to go to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, but after years of bloodshed and trillions spent, we came home with little to brag about.  I think it’s going to be different with Venezuela.  Overnight, everything changes.  A tyrant is now gone.  Drug shipments to the U.S. will go down, as will Russian and Chinese influence in South America.The U.S. will rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, and, soon enough, more oil will be available to the U.S. and especially to the Europeans, who found themselves dependent on…

Everyone says they want the Epstein Files released.  We just got a big dump of documents, many of which were heavily redacted. One document — 119 pages of grand jury testimony — was completely redacted. Photos that used to be on the DOJ website disappeared, and a photo of Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson with young people — whose faces were blurred out, as if to protect victims — just appeared. But the photo was taken from another public event and the photo has been in circulation for decades. This is so bush league.  People are sick of all the delays and what…

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