8/9/2017 Trump’s evangelical Baptist pastor, Robert Jeffress, has determined that God has given President Trump permission to attack North Korea, and to “take out” its leader Kim Jong Un. “When it comes to how we should deal with evildoers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary ...

8/8/2017 At a luncheon today, it appeared that President Trump has had all that he could take when it came to threats from North Korea.  Kim Jong Un’s regime recently suggested that they would conduct another missile test, this time targeting Guam, a US territory.  The President made it quite clear he would tolerate no more threats, promising “Fire and ...

Fearing the Trump administration would bury the report, a group of federal scientists leaked a draft of a sweeping climate change report to the press.  The 543 page report, produced by hundreds of scientists in 13 federal agencies, contradicts President Trump’s beliefs that global warming is a hoax.  The report (normally) must be approved by the White House before it is ...

08/02/2017 “It has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers,” Trump said as he endorsed legislation to curb legal immigration.  This proposal “will reduce poverty, increase wages and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars,” said Trump. The proposed legislation would reshape legal immigration to the US, cutting annual admissions in half and prioritizing education ...

8/1/2017 14 states, including New York, have filed a lawsuit against the EPA after it delayed enacting tougher clean air air standards designed to fight smog.   In early June, Scott Pruitt, Trump’s choice to lead the EPA, decided to delay implementation of the Obama administration’s 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards to Oct. 1, 2018. Among the states that signed ...

7/26/2017 Is it hard to believe 39% of Americans think President Trump is doing a good job?  For some it is, others find it hard to believe his rating isn’t higher. America can be a funny place, where people believe all sorts of things.  Looking at the list, you have to wonder, why are people so stupid?  Why don’t more ...

7/26/2017 This morning, President Trump tweeted that his administration will ban transgender people from serving in the military.  The news caught many off guard, including the Pentagon. It is estimated that there are about 6,000 current transgender troops serving in the US military, about the same amount of people on board a fully staffed aircraft carrier.  After consultation with my ...

7/21/2017 President Trump wants to build a wall to keep foreigners out, unless they want to work for him at Mar-a-Lago. During the White House’s “Made in America” initiative this week to promote American jobs and products, President Donald Trump’s businesses have again taken steps to hire foreign workers.  Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and his golf course in Jupiter, Florida, filed documents to ...

7/20/2017 Has enough water gone under the bridge?  Apparently in the case of Jon Huntsman it has.  Today President Trump nominated Huntsman as Ambassador to Russia despite criticizing his performance in 2012. A Republican, Jon Huntsman, served as Ambassador to China during the Obama administration.  Huntsman also served as Governor of the state of Utah, and Ambassador to Singapore.  Huntsman ...

7/20/2017 Donald Trump, during an interview with the "failing" New York Times, said "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else."  He went on "How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would ...