We are a week into Donald Trump’s America and we are seeing a lot of the things we expected. The newly sworn in 45th President wasted no time in commencing the execution of his agenda. Much of it he did the first day and the rest followed in the first week. Among the things he…
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Beginning benchmarks for the Trump Administration
Just to confirm reality, the sun did in fact rise in the east the day after President Trump was sworn into office. Even though the day was cool and overcast, many turned out in support of the Million Woman March in Washington, DC and around not only the nation but across the entire World. Amid…
Continue ReadingTransitioning into resistance mode
One of my more caustic memories of the 2016 campaign involved an incident experienced by my local Democratic state house candidate. One of his campaign signs placed along side of a busy thoroughfare was vandalized. An obvious Trump supporter stapled a placard over both sides of the sign with the following message: THE SILENT MAJORITY…
Continue ReadingNew year, new era, newspeak
Regular readers may have noted that I have on occasion made the statement “let it never be said we do not live in interesting times.” I will now add to that particular train thought to never let it be said that America is not unique among nations. The USA is indeed the occupant of a…
Continue ReadingInternalizing the new normal
Here we are facing the winter of our discontent in that ten week period between Election Day and Inauguration Day when the outgoing Presidential administration is wrapping up business and the incoming one is preparing for a successful run. Things have, with a few exceptions, cooled down. We Democrats are still licking our wounds and…
Continue ReadingSprinting down the home stretch
It is the first day of November in election year 2016 and we have exactly one more week until the climax of the most expensive and definitely the most trying and tiring election cycle in the History of the Republic to date. The past sixteen or so months has been a seemingly never ending public…
Continue Reading2016 Oklahoma Ballot Questions: Know the Issues
My dear brothers, sisters, readers of Reason Rest Stop and only friends, it is mid-October and we are in the home stretch of a marathon election cycle. So much has been said about most of the candidates on the November ballot that there seems little remaining on which to comment. Here in Oklahoma along the…
Continue ReadingShaken to our core: Making the case for regime change
On this Labor Day Holiday when we should be celebrating our working class roots and remembering those who fought, bled and died for the rights of all working people, we here along the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66 are reeling and regrouping from a very sobering weekend. Forget the fact that our beloved…
Continue ReadingService and Sacrifice: A position statement
The 2016 Republican Presidential nominee, after totally mishandling some very easy questions in a Sunday morning interview, has effectively become a two-ton anchor around the neck of his own campaign as well as his party. Trying to equate his business achievements with the supreme sacrifice of an Army captain who had been killed in action…
Continue ReadingReaping the bitter fruits of rotten governance
The second session of the 55th Oklahoma Legislature adjourned this past Friday amid an abundance of sunshine pumping from those in the majority party of how they passed a budget before their deadline. The outlook for a great number of the state’s citizens is increasingly more grim as so many less affluent bore the brunt…
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