Category Archives: Political Stuff

A diatribe provoked by the racist rhetoric of U.S. Congressman Steve King. Continue reading →

My assessment of the reliability, trustworthiness, and political biases of various online news sources. Continue reading →

An essay (619 words). Continue reading →

Something of a rant about President Donald Trump’s attempts to bypass the tri-part balance of powers defined by the constitution (858 words). Continue reading →

A couple days ago, conservative students at the University of California at Berkeley invited Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus. Not-so-conservative students launched a large and noisy protest, calling for the University to cancel his appearance. A few anarchists later … Continue reading →

You don’t hear the term “the American Dream” much anymore. I used to hear it a lot. I looked it up on Wikipedia the other day, and found this: The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, … Continue reading →

This is a guest post by Charles McCallum, a good friend of mine and a person with excellent critical-thinking skills. I lean more to the Left than he does, and I do not agree with everything he says here. Nonetheless, … Continue reading →

My wife recently read Itʼs Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. This book takes a critical and historical look at the current polarization of political parties in the USA and how we got to this … Continue reading →