Commentary

I often hear from my subscribers, ‘Man, how many publications do you read?’ The answer is “a lot,” a number of them by subscription and others by occasional internet drop in.  Then there’s what I hear on TV news programs.

Notes from Iowa

While many of you were watching football, I was watching Donald Trump give his victory speech in which he was quite restrained, thanking a number of people before talking about how he, with our help, would take back our country and make it great again.… read more

Commentary

With the 2024 presidential race beginning to show signs of life beyond those early sound bites when candidates sought to get ink, air time, and frankly to become known, I thought I would jump in with my commentary.

Christie No Match

Wednesday night, the pompous Republican candidate Chris Christie, failed in his ego match play effort with former President Trump, and withdrew from the race pledging, “in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.” … read more

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NOTE: Before I offer my commentary on matters political, I want to thank you for your indulgence in my recent blogs on the University of Michigan football team.  It was a great year for the maize and blue, beating Ohio State again, defeating Iowa  in the Big Ten Championship game, the semi-playoff victory over Alabama, and Monday’s defeat of the Washington Huskies to become the National Champions of college football.… read more

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On New Year’s Day, I wrote about the challenge the Michigan Wolverines would face in the semi-playoff game with the Alabama Crimson Tide.  It was a tight game as I imagined it would be, but the Maize and Blue came through victorious.

Since that game, I have had considerable difficulty in thinking about the political scene, the subject matter this blog should be addressing. … read more

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If President Biden can give his remarks on the anniversary of the January 6 riot at the Nation’s Capitol a day early, I can publish my commentary a day after.

I was listening to the president speak while I was working on a piece covering another topic I’ll publish later. … read more

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While contemplating this New Year’s message, I wanted it to be an upbeat one, an optimistic outlook, rather than another boring review of the past year as much of the media has been doing.

I even decided that there would be no January 1 Fool’s Day nominee. 

Commentary

Ah, yes … it’s Christmas … few of us know that Christmas was declared a federal holiday on June 26, 1870 … we decorate Christmas trees, real and faux, and are told that each year 25 to 30 million real Christmas trees are sold in the United States alone … we hang a wreath on the door and select that perfect Poinsettia plant to impress visitors … some of us hang stockings by the fire … we catch ourselves humming a carol … and we drop a buck or two in the Salvation Army bucket as we frantically shop for gifts … special thanks to Amazon …

… We send greeting cards to family and friends – our only contact with some of them all year include photos to remind them what we look like … we hope for snow in some parts of the country … we are reminded of the 12 days of Christmas – those my true love gave to me … twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree …

… There’s Santa Claus, of course, and his reindeer – Blitzen, Comet, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Donner, Dancer, and the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, all memorialized in song by Gene Autry … and what’s Christmas without Bing Crosby singing White Christmas?… read more

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We have a president who cannot finish a simple sentence, and a vice president who makes him sound clear-spoken.  If that weren’t enough, we have a president of the once esteemed Harvard University, who is guilty of plagiarism, and members of the Supreme Court of Colorado, who have chosen to use words dating back to the Civil War era to keep former President Trump off the ballot.… read more

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I wasn’t surprised last week when I saw the Pew Research Center’s assessment of Joe Biden, in which it stated “liberal Democrats are more likely than moderate Democrats to say they approve of Biden, 66 percent to 57 percent.”

The handwriting was on the wall six months before he was elected when he agreed to team up with the progressive Sen.… read more

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As a young kid, I recall my parents had a multi-volume set of books covering World Wars I and II in pictures.  I vividly remember the photographs of Jews packed in rail cars, their captivity and the piles of bodies. Although my family is not Jewish, we knew the hell of the Holocaust.… read more