Posting of a comment by J.P. McJefferson to the earlier post “American Idiot(s),” Angry Bear. J.P. hits the same note I have been discussing in earlier commentaries about voting here and here. To add to J.P.’s comment on Angry Bear; “73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote.” And […]
Since I don’t watch TV, I might have missed it. Anybody here see Elon and the DOGE bois protesting the government inefficiency of National Guard and Marines being sent to LA as a Trump photo op? Isn’t this sort of wasteful spending what DOGE was created to eliminate? Anybody here see any anti-ICE protestors waving […]
This report or document is one year old. It still has a foundation for what is being said. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne assumed the office in 2023. Previously he served as State Superintendent of Schools from 2003 to 2011. Obviously, he has the background or does he? Not sure. Universal school vouchers […]
Trump claims his tariffs will bring in $3 trillion, enough to pay for the Big Beautiful Bill and also lower the national debt. This is magical thinking. Tariffs are simply a consumption tax that hits the middle class and working class hardest. It makes goods more expensive, driving inflation. It takes money out of the […]
Critiquing the conscience of the nation’s citizens. We should be asking why we arrived at this point. Wasn’t the first trump presidency enough to learn from and soundly reject a second presidency? The boldness and stupidity of his edicts were not what the nation needed. We are slowly slipping back into an environment of a […]
Rewrite of important points on Medicare and the over payments to commercial MA plans. This is not the entire Chapter 12 MedPac report to Congress. Although, you may think it is as this a rather long post even after I boiled it down. Why Chapter 12? Simple . . . It talks about the rip-off. […]
My chairman predicts that the proposed NIH cuts will be a “nothingburger.’ Even if the budget cuts don’t come to pass (and I’m pretty sure the indirect costs cuts will stick), the damage will already have been done. Creative, energetic American scientists who seek academic positions will move to other countries. Back in 1986, I […]
These days, it’s fashionable for right-wing Republicans to accuse those who disagree with their extremism as being Marxists, socialists or communists. Of course, they are using these words as epithets, not based on their actual definition. Also, it’s fashionable for right-wing Republicans to claim they’re not cutting the federal budget, they’re only cutting waste, fraud […]
Apparently, the GOP Congress wants to investigate Biden’s fitness for the presidency four months after he left office. Other than squandering more tax money and distracting the media, what purpose would that serve? “Journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson sketched a picture of a well-meaning but weakened president in a book they released last month. […]
I haven’t seen any significant “violence” or “riots” reported in LA, although that’s the Trump Administration claim. Predictably, Trump seized the moment to send in troops, with the hope of escalating things. I’ve seen claims that Newsom should have blocked the State National Guard, but that’s incorrect–Trump federalized the State National Guard, so they’re under […]