SCOTUS overturned the Chevron Doctrine, in place since 1984. This is a very dangerous outcome. People probably don’t understand the impact that this is going to have on how government agencies operate, particularly with regard to those agencies’ abilities to regulate.  Dozens of issues are now going to be resolved by the courts, issues that would have been resolved…
Category: Current Events
Why Do People Think The U.S. Economy Is Terrible?
The US economy is terrible. Why? In poll after poll, people seem to think or, more accurately, to feel that the US economy is terrible., Why do people tell pollsters this? First, let’s look at the data and then understand the reason polls keep reporting that people don’t “feel” economic improvements they’ve experienced. First of all, the data tells us…
Trump Lies About May 30 Verdict in New York
Trump and his cronies (House Speaker Johnson, Sens. Rubio and Cruz, and many others) are trying to destroy Americans’ faith in the basic principles of democracy, particularly the Judicial branch of government and the rule of law. Trump lies, over and over again. Lying is his modus operandi. For example, Trump and his enthusiastic supporters lied about the 2020 presidential…
Trump’s Financing Options Are Robust
Trump has lots of financing options available. He needs to use them and stop whining. Let’s consider Trump’s financing options. 1) Assuming The Trump Organization has equity in the commercial properties it owns, there is no reason Trump can’t borrow against the equity in those commercial properties and use those funds to bond his $464 million appeal. If there isn’t…
Palestinian Genocide and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged for hundreds of years. Since October 2023, many people have been talking about a “Palestinian genocide.” For many decades, Israel has been under constant bomb and missile assault by Palestinians/Arab States/Hamas. After years of constant bombardment, in 2010, Israel invested in an anti-missile system called Iron Dome to protect itself. This is just one aspect of…
Eight House Republicans Succeeded Splendidly — Now What?
Republicans in the House succeeded in getting rid of Speaker McCarthy. For a long time, a group of House Republicans wanted to get rid of McCarthy because he wouldn’t go along with their desire for chaos. Eight House Republicans — who have no interest in governing or even doing the jobs they campaigned for and won election to (that pay…
House Republicans Beyond Delusional
I may have never heard so many House Republicans — all of them — completely divorced from reality. Whether they like or hate Speaker McCarthy, they are all talking as if the Democrats are the problem. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a Republican. Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz proposed vacating McCarthy from the Speakership of the House. Last week, Republicans brought…
SCOTUS Rules On Hypothetical LGBT Scenario
There are several problems with the SCOTUS Lorie Smith decision. Smith objects to the possibility that if she were to expand her graphic design business to include wedding website design, she might be hired to create a wedding website for a gay couple, and refusing to do that work would violate Colorado civil rights legislation. She argued that being hired…
LGBTQ Despair
Looking back, the overall increase in LGBTQ hate has been measurably escalating since 2016. 2016 is when the tide sharply began to turn against many minority groups in America. The hate of LGBQ people arises in large part from fear of “The Other,” people who are different in a way that seems important, often for odd and irrational reasons. However, the…
Biden Classified Documents Scandal, Explained
Let’s consider the Biden Classified Documents scandal. Late last fall, President Biden’s team found classified docs in Biden’s former office at the Penn Biden Center. After decades of presidencies without any classified documents turning up where they don’t belong, we have Trump stealing classified documents and refusing to give them back. Then, within a year of the Trump classified document…