It’s like clockwork. A disaster occurs and the airwaves are full of appeals for help from all of us who are clearly more fortunate
Category: Government
Tracking Trump’s regulatory rollbacks: so far, so bad
While Donald Trump distracts us with bellicose pronouncements and internecine White House wars, his henchmen in regulatory agencies are methodically rolling back decades of
Atomic Homefront: The feel-bad movie of the year
The director of Atomic Homefront calls her documentary “the feel-bad movie of the year.” That’s how Rebecca Camissa described it at a special advance
A Local TV station that knows how to cover national news
I was recently in Albuquerque, NM and amazed at the extensive and exceptional coverage that one local TV station gave to the proposed Republican
12 Possible Endings for Trump’s 1st Term
This list isn’t organized in any particular way, but rather it’s just a selection of possible places we might find ourselves in 4 years.
Highlights of NY Times’ annotated Constitution
On July 2, 2017, the New York Times published a special section: an annotated version of the United States Constitution. The special section, says
Do the unthinkable: double, triple Congressional Salaries
Of all people, conservative retired Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) tossed out the idea that Members of Congress should be given a monthly housing stipend
Disappearing data: A Trump administration vanishing act
Where has all the data gone? Since the Trump wrecking crew took over, government data has been disappearing at an alarming rate. At first,
Trump, it’s the triad again!
Donald Trump has had trouble understanding the nuclear triad. He may now want to get a little more familiar with the triad that can
What Republicans have done to our Nation’s Capital
Several weeks ago, I flew into Washington, DC, much as I had done for the first time back in March, 1963. Flying over government