Another year draws to a close. It is time to update the situation on America’s Third Civil War. We are at the three year anniversary of an issue of The Atlantic with the front cover “How to Stop a Civil War.” The Christmas New York Times Sunday magazine issue had an article by David Blight, […]
State of American History, Civics, and Politics
Who Would You Cast as Cassidy Hutchinson?
On Thursday, December 22, 2022, at 9:42 PM ET, I issued the blog 2023: The Year of Indictments. The opening line was: What a week and it is not even over. The closing was: And there is more to come. About ten minutes later, the Trump hit the fan with the release of the 845-page […]
2023: The Year of Indictments
What a week and it is not even over. Three historic stories broke this week and not in separate and discrete packages. They overlapped and challenged talk show hosts to keep up. The challenge was even greater for writers of op-ed pieces and blogs. So let me start here with some observations about the still […]
Digital Donny Rorschach Test: Prelude to Criminal Referrals
What was he thinking? What was he thinking on January 6? What was he thinking with his latest con? The question of intent has and is an important one in the ongoing investigations of his criminal activities during the last days of his presidency. Fortunately, we now have expert testimony on the state of mind […]
Republicans Are Losing, But Is the Tea Party Winning?
The Morning Joe Show with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist has established certain routines. The hosts and their circle of guests in this morning talk show on MSNBC each in their turn, tell a tale of woe for the Republican Party. They bad mouth it as a party of losers that hasn’t learned […]
His Day of Trumpfamy: His Worst Day So Far – More to Come After
December 6, 2022, will be remembered as a Day of Trumpfamy for the once Teflon-person now fading into political obscurity as a Loser. It marks a convenient demarcation point to track his downward slide into criminal oblivion. In the years to come scholars may offer other days especially since there is more to come but […]
Is America Ready for a Three Party System?
The unsung 1824 Bicentennial is fast upon us. Soon it will be only a year away. The year has been a personal favorite of mine. It has been the subject of blogs since 2016. The year marks the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System. It was the end of the […]
Yellowstone versus Blue Bloods: Big Sky versus Big Apple
Kevin Costner is still having a moment (see Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden: The Heroes We Want vs the Leaders We Have). The fifth season of the hit series Yellowstone has arrived. It has done so with extensive media coverage far beyond what one would expect from a TV series. For […]
Witch Hunter Scorecard: A Christmas Necessity
Can you name all the witch hunts against the Wicked Witch of the West? It is not so easy. Keeping track of all the investigations, indictments, and trials against the Mar-a-Lago President is a challenge. I have watched TV announcers struggle to get through them all in a single session. Sometimes, the network just gives […]
China and Vietnam Are in Asia, Afghanistan and Iran Are Not: Where Was Joe Biden?
Where is Asia? Or rather, what are the countries in Asia? How do the countries in Asia correlate with the people in the United States deemed Asian-American? All this is the separate from the related question of what color are the people of Asian-descent in the United States based on the answers to the above. […]