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Shutdown ahead?

The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have put Trump and his congressional enablers on the back foot.  Senate Democrats may refuse to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and it is not even clear that the other appropriations bills will pass.  Prediction markets now put the odds of a shutdown this week at […]

Shutting Down Minnesota

A piece by Robert Reich is posted earlier today. Robert reports on Minnesota’s reaction to ICE’s efforts in Minneapolis to take control. ICE aggression and harassment of the citizenry is not going over well. People are angry and are pushing back. The citizenry are calling for a shutdown of the state. Given the nature and […]

Mark Carney speaks to the World and Canada

“Leaders realize they will not be able to ‘manage’ Trump for the remainder of his term. Reckoning with the fact that the systems of international order that the US helped craft are crumbling as a result” of his controlling personality. “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,” Davos Switzerland The full text of a speech by the […]

The Rest of the Story

A reputable source of information to read and determine for yourself what took place. I subscribe to Letters from an American. I find Prof. Heather to be accurate and forthcoming in her articles depicting what is happening in the United States today. The story is quite different tah what is being broadcast. Indeed, it is […]

Greenland

A view of the Greenland controversy as seen through the eyes of another country, reported by the Bangkok Post, Thailand. As I read this news article, the Bangkok Post is in a presentation mode and not taking a position. Such could be the result of Thailand’s relationship with the United States. A viewpoint from outside […]

Nixon or Trump? Which one . . .

A good read as composed by Jack about Nixon and doing a comparison of Nixon to Trump and foreign policy. Jack is another writer I subscribe to. I usually pull up his old articles so as not to take advantage. We exchange a conversation from time to time. I lived in Michigan for a couple […]