The Carrier Affair

In February of 2016, Carrier announced it would close 2 Indiana plants and move move 2100 jobs to Mexico. Here’s the story as covered by Fox News.   If we believe what we are being told now (which is a tall order in itself), Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence swung into action and the following is the net…

Trump Picks Rep. Tom Price for HHS

Please don’t be distracted by the flag-burning business making “news” today. Trump tweeted about flag-burning purely to distract people’s attention from his one of latest Cabinet nominees. Acting very consistently, Trump has made yet another awful selection for his Cabinet: Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price for HHS Secretary. His goals are clear: eliminate the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare…

Trump’s Bizarre Method Of Picking Staff

The ridiculous way that President-Elect Donald Trump has gone about selecting Cabinet nominees — parading candidates in and out of Trump Tower and Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ — while making hinting comments to the press and sending tweets, has been entirely as I expected. Instead of sober meetings held discreetly behind closed doors and news conferences to…

Betsy DeVos, School Privatizer In Chief

Upon hearing that Betsy DeVos has been nominated to be Secretary of Education in the new Cabinet of President-Elect Donald Trump, I imagined the following conversation between DeVos and someone I’ll call “Citizen Tom”: Betsy, “I have never attended a public school, nor have my children. You should want your children to attend private, preferably Christian schools. I married the…

Trump Berates News Organizations

There is something very questionable about President-Elect Donald Trump. Well, actually there are many very questionable things about Trump, but the one being addressed here is that he is unspeakably rude and profoundly ungrateful. Without the $3 billion-plus of free, unpaid media exposure that he received during the primary and general campaigns from the organizations whose representatives he invited to…

Why LGBT People Are Afraid Of A Trump Presidency

There are several reasons why members of the LGBT population are concerned and frankly worried about the recent election of President-Elect Donald Trump by the Electoral College. Here are some concrete specifics re: why people are concerned about Trump. 1) Trump’s own words. Some people are fond of quoting Trump from his speech at the GOP convention this year, when he…