Per Heather Cox Richardson: “. . . Donald Trump, sparked a crisis last Friday when his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced that he fully intended to go through with the trade war he had hyped on the campaign trail. Trump announced he would levy tariffs of 25% on most products from Mexico and […]

Many people in a survey cited inflation as the reason for financial difficulties than any other cause. Inflation reached a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022 and has yet to return to the Fed’s target of 2%. And as we all know, we were in amidst of a pandemic to which many economic entities took advantage […]

World’s richest person making life difficult by cutting development assistance and aid Somewhere within all the issues Congress has to deal with, with this administration, there must be a day of reckoning coming. I can not imagine Republicans being too thrilled with the damage trump and his pissant are creating. In less than two years, […]

Did Biden think he (or Harris) was certain to win the election?  A competent executive knows that high priority initiatives need their constant attention to overcome bureaucratic resistance and infighting.  This is true in the private sector and in government.  Yet this is what we got from Biden: In the final year of President Joe […]

Ninety-one year old Senator Chuck Grassley is prompting Kash Patel to restore his version of the public’s trust in the FBI. I kind of wonder what trust of which he speaks. I think we already know he is referring to Republicans. It is hard to know what the public believes as they do not know […]

rjs at r.j.’s space sent this pice as written by MD Jeremy Faust. Apparently’ the CDC is going to restrict the use of certain words in research manuscripts. Gender, transgender, etc. appears to be the forbidden words as well as non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, etc. This was also done […]

For the past century, Republicans have used the words “Marxist,” “Socialist” and “Communist” as epithets to refer to anything and everything they disapprove of. Now that a generation of Americans that was born after the collapse of the Soviet Union has come of age, those swear words have lost their potency. Looks like “DEI” is […]

Trump has said that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. Last Friday, he announced his intention to shine that beauty on the American people. “Outside analyses make clear that Trump’s tariffs would hurt the voters that he intended to help, meaning that he might ultimately need to find a resolution. “An analysis […]

The least trustworthy name in news, buried in the 13th graf: Democratic lawmakers have argued it would be illegal for Trump to unilaterally eliminate a federal agency without consulting Congress. This is not a question of whether something is blue-green, aqua, or cyan. This is a matter of fact. You might think a news organization […]

There are other forms of taxation besides income taxes. Tariffs are really just taxes on consumer goods. And deportations will drive up the prices of produce that’s left to rot in the fields. Call it a “deportation tax.” This link is from 16 January. “The impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation is […]