What a week!! Not just for Donald Trump, but also for yours truly. Just one more experience proving that we should all practice what we preach. While teaching a course about imaginative problem solving, I would tell students to make sure they did not mistake symptoms for the root cause. Yet that’s exactly what I … Read more
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the … Read more
Today’s post is a lesson in political geography. It was triggered by the first announcements by Democrats of their intention to seek the party’s nomination for president in 2020. In particular, the fact three out of the first four candidates out of the gate are from reliably BLUE coastal states: Kamala Harris (CA), Kirsten Gillibrand … Read more
One of the recurring themes in the month-long punditry over the partial government shutdown is how Donald Trump’s obsession with building a wall on the Southern border is unlikely to expand his electoral base. This is especially disconcerting to establishment Republicans as it flies in the face of what became known as the 2013 GOP … Read more
The ongoing case of Trump v. BuzzFeed v. Mueller v. Cohen over the last 48 hours provides just one more example which proves one of the basic principles of not just journalism, but almost every profession. It is more important to understand WHY than WHO, WHAT, WHERE and WHEN. To recap. Thursday night BuzzFeed reported it had … Read more