Commentary How did this happen? How do we fix it? Earlier today, I wrote in Around the Block: Link: (https://around-the-block.com/2020/11/04/smile-though-your-heart-is-breaking/): “So, after four years of Trump’s incompetence and lying, after nine months of a badly handled federal response to a pandemic that has killed over 225,000 Americans, after a presidential term that has lowered America’s standingContinue reading “The Divided States of America!”
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“Smile, though your heart is breaking…”
Commentary “Oh, what a night!” With apologies to Charles Chaplin and the Four Seasons, last night was a doozy! As I pen this column at 8:00am EST, here are some potential outcomes of this convoluted, consequential Election Day. (Sorry, West Coast readers, by the time you read this, some of the scenarios will history.)
Election Day is here. As you watch the results, ask yourself – why do people vote for Trump?
Commentary Trump: “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA.” Yesterday, otherwise known to readers of Around the Block, as the “One Day More” day, I watched videos where Trump supporters in Texas surrounded a Biden campaign bus, intimidating theContinue reading “Election Day is here. As you watch the results, ask yourself – why do people vote for Trump?”
One Day More!
With apologies, and thanks, to Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Victor Hugo, all the casts and crews of “Les Misérables” and finally to SNL…
On this last day before Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Election Day, I can only say, ONE DAY MORE!
Hey Trump voter, bet you didn’t know this!
Commentary Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes In an Op-Ed today in the New York Times, Nobel Prize and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz (yeah, I know another left-wing liberal elite) argues, “The Trump administration has a dirty little secret: It’s not just planning to increase taxes on most Americans. The increaseContinue reading “Hey Trump voter, bet you didn’t know this!”
America – The Democratic Republic Where Minority Rules
Commentary I ran some “Battleground State”numbers…and they’re not pretty. As we enter the final weekend before Tuesday’s election day, I thought I’d take a break from writing about THE ELECTION and talk, instead, about, uh, elections. To be clear, this a break from THE ELECTION, but not a break from our broken political system. IContinue reading “America – The Democratic Republic Where Minority Rules”
November 3, November 4 and The Aftermath
Commentary From a Zoom call to a Times Op-Ed, I believe we are at the precipice of the day/days of reckoning! Last night, on my regular Thursday Zoom call with a group of my closest friends from Marin County, California, my former home, the conversation focussed almost entirely on the election. While we spent aContinue reading “November 3, November 4 and The Aftermath”
A Case for Packing The Court
Commentary It’s time to stop playing nice and do something! A despondent reader wrote to me regarding yesterday’s Around the Block entitled, “The Supreme Court is not political. Really?” (https://around-the-block.com/2020/10/27/the-supreme-court-is-not-political-really/). “It’s all so disgusting and heartbreaking. Even when Biden gets elected, we’ve lost the Supreme Court. Whose country is this?”
The Supreme Court is not political. Really?
Commentary This is not the end…it is only the beginning! Right Amy? Multiple news sources reported tonight: The Supreme Court on Monday night rejected a pandemic-related request from Democrats and civil rights groups to extend the deadline for counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the battleground state of Wisconsin. The vote was 5Continue reading “The Supreme Court is not political. Really?”
“We’re better than this. Aren’t we?”
Commentary Max Boot of the Washington Post asks the question. I answer with a question and a comment: But are we? I guess we’ll find out next week. Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International InstituteContinue reading ““We’re better than this. Aren’t we?””
