Politics and Prejudices and other musings Jack Lessenberry is a columnist residing in Michigan. We never met when I was in Michigan. Recently, w,e have been having an ongoing dialogue back and forth. Next time I venture to Chicago, I will make the run over to Ann Arbor. Many good things came out of Whitmer […]
– by New Deal democrat In this month’s report on new home sales for July, the most important news was at the tail end, which I’ll get to last. As per my usual intro, while new home sales are the most leading measure of the housing market, they are very noisy and heavily revised – which […]
From an interview with Jacob Lew, Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Biden’s ambassador to Israel: When you would call them in the middle of the night and say, “What on earth happened?,” what was usually the answer? The general pattern was that in-the-moment stories were inaccurate, and that the Israeli military and government establishment were not in […]
In my last post I discussed how the Democrats might use whatever leverage they have in the upcoming congressional budget negotiations. Here I want to circle back to the problem I flagged at the beginning of that post: Trump and congressional Republicans might well renege on any deal, either by refusing to expend appropriated funds, […]
Joyce Vance touches upon a scary topic. The government under Tr__p’s tutelage over our lives is taking a turn for the worst. Not happy with being a president governing a nation, his government is in the process of rounding up people that may not fit the classification of being citizens. Intermingled with them are children […]
We’ve known for decades that the risk for autism is mostly heritable, i.e., genetics. Certain environmental inputs can enhance the expression of autistic traits, but the cause lies in genetics. “The rise in prevalence, many researchers say, is predominantly caused by an increase in diagnoses rather than a true rise in the underlying symptoms and […]
I’ve never been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant and can’t remember ever caring about their logo. But Trump is searching daily for another manufactured outrage to distract from the Epstein files, and he’s rescued his fellow geezer in the Cracker Barrel logo. “Cracker Barrel’s controversial redesign made its way to the president’s desk, and now […]
I am traveling the next couple of days so I am limited as to what I can write. I thought Letters from and American and some words from Paul Krugman would suffice. I subscribe to both. It appears that every day going by, we can expect something else emerging from the basement of the White […]
This crap is beginning to grate on me. If it is not bothering you, then there is something wrong with your thinking. Tr__p is an elected official and not a king ruling by divine right. Tr__p is feeling pretty damn secure to imply such in public. No legitimate American wants a dictator “August 26, 2025” […]
In his latest effort to control the news cycle and distract from the Epstein scandal, Trump wants to re-brand the Department of Defense as the Department of War. That was its original name, of course. It was changed to the Defense Department after WWII. “As you know, we won World War I, we won World […]