Posts By: occh4@comcast.net

American Idea

It’s clear that Donald Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. There are currently fifteen appeals pending in courts around the country challenging how he wants to bend the government, and therefore, all of us to his will. Trump has made clear he craves power and revenge. He has surrounded himself

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No Decency

The hateful and discriminatory language and conduct encouraged by our president has been so pervasive it’s difficult to grasp the effect it is having on society. It was never been clearer than Trump’s address to congress this past week. In his attack on transgender individuals, he said the government would recognize only males and females.

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Oval Office Bullies

We’ve all seen it by now. The tough guys piling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Berating him, talking over him. Telling him he hasn’t said thank you enough for all the American military aid we’ve given his country to defend itself from Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin. Trump sat forward, waving his

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Wake Up Call

We need to wake up. There is a threat to our freedom of the press. It is unrelenting and getting more dangerous every day. The news media is under attack by the current president as never before in modern history. Some editors and media owners are rolling over out of fear. Once respected organizations like

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Dangerous History

In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from the Munich Conference with Adolf Hitler after agreeing to what is called a policy of appeasement which means you give your opponent what they want so you don’t have to fight them. Chamberlain gave his reasoning in a radio address. “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it

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Hero Rising

For the past three weeks, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have blitzed through the federal government. Firing thousands of workers, closing down federal agencies, allowing Musk’s minions to have access to Americans’ personal data through the invasion of the Treasury Department, and on and on. Judges around the country have been called on to stop

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Government of Fear

If anyone else did what Trump has allowed Elon Musk to do, they’d be in federal prison on a variety of charges. Musk sent a gang of tech head twenty somethings into the Treasury Department to demand access to the private information of millions of people. They went into US Aid for International Development shut

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Scene of the Crime

The contrast and symbolism was stunning. It was just over four years ago that a mob of insurrectionists stormed through that scared place under the Capitol dome prompted by Donald Trump. He sat by for hours watching the mob desecrate the heart of the American government that called for the death of his own vice

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Foodball

There have been seven football games on TV since last Thursday starting with the College Football Playoffs. Those games were followed by five NFL Wildcard Weekend games. Oh, and there is one more tonight. A football feast, food for the hungriest fan. If you watched any football this year, you’ve seen the Uber Eats commercial

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Return to Crazytown

It was a reminder of the past and a freighting look into the future. Donald Trump’s bizarre news conference at Mar-a-Logo was like listening to someone raging on a street corner. Let’s start with Greenland. Apparently some one showed Trump where it is on a map. He repeated his plan to take Greenland from Denmark.

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