This time a year ago we were flying down the home stretch of what turned out to be a wave election. In the wee morning hours of Election Night, the GOP candidate ultimately won the Electoral College vote count for the Presidency and his party made substantial gains in a wave that extended far down…
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Slowing down the forced march backwards
What a week it has been in *President Trump’s America. Is anyone tired of winning yet? Never before in my lifetime have I seen a chief executive of any organization let alone the defacto leader of the free world (a position which the United States is apparently abdicating) so self-absorbed by the fact he won…
Continue ReadingRepeal of Affordable Care Act is failing!
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka The Affordable Care Act will remain the law of land after the primary legislative aim of the GOP-controlled Congress to repeal it failed to gain enough support for passage in the U.S. Senate on Monday evening. President Barack Obama signed the ACA into law in March of…
Continue ReadingWe are not OK
Life seems to have been toeing the line of the surreal for the past couple weeks while events, local and national, happen in real time and evolve over a period of days. This past week there was a candidate forum for those running for Chair of the Oklahoma Democratic Party where four of the five…
Continue ReadingOne hundred days of lunacy
A couple of weeks after winning the November General Election, the then President-elect delivered a speech to the nation detailing his bold plan for this first 100 days: Policy Plan for the First 100 Days Any non-Fox “News” journalist, ie, any reality based media person who is not a cheerleader for the current regime and…
Continue ReadingOne hundred years of American might
When the Central Powers of Europe mobilized their armed forces in August 1914 and the Allied Powers mobilized theirs in response, it was widely believed by many on both sides that the conflict would be glorious, short-lived and decisive. Few of the pro-military interventionists gave any credibility to the prospect of a protracted, drawn out…
Continue ReadingThe teetering Trump Tower of cards
We are now approaching the halfway mark of the 45th President’s “First 100 Days” and in spite of being beset by numerous self-inflicted setbacks, the President is pressing on with his agenda. Just what IS the intention of President Trump? We should make no mistake about it. The man is following the policy input of…
Continue ReadingThe GOP’s pact with Satan
With total control of all levers of government, it is reasonable to state that it is high tide for the Republican Party as they hold majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress and hold the White House. One thing about high tides, they always eventually recede. I’m curious as to what all the receding…
Continue ReadingApproaching the line of departure
The American nation has survived three weeks into the Donald J. Trump Presidency and the contrast in the performance of a novice administrator and the expectations the job demands of a public servant could not be more glaring. With less than one month gone since his inauguration, President Trump has yet to begin making the…
Continue ReadingThe United States of Oceania?
We have survived into the second week of President Trump’s America and to say this has been a newsworthy few days is an understatement. In just over one week there have been over a dozen Presidential Executive Orders including some that impose unconstitutional overreach on specific segments of the population. Through it all, the President…
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