Wrecker in-Chief
After less than five months in office President Trump has the distinction of reeking havoc with allies abroad and opponents at home. Watch out Israel. This is a president who acts like a snake-oil...
View ArticleCheck-mating Trump
Imagine President Trump waking up every morning and asking his reflection in the full-length mirror, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is supremo of us all?” The reply is suitably deferential: “You.”...
View ArticleTrump – A Loose Cannon
Just in case you missed it, only 22 percent of people surveyed in 37 countries around the world have confidence in President Trump, according to the reputable Pew organization. That’s five points less...
View ArticleTrump’s Fate Unfolds
President Trump is neither the Second Coming nor a monarch, where the King can do no wrong. His rabid followers will disagree but even the court jester has run out of comical antics as this...
View ArticleEnd This Nightmare
When will this long nightmare end! If only President Gerald Ford could come back and terminate it, as he did immediately after Nixon fell off the cliff. We should fly a flag with Edvard Munch’s Scream...
View ArticleTrump vs Media
The media fumbled the ball when none of them quizzed the brand new White House communications director by asking, “What’s your take on President Trump time and again accusing the mainstream media of...
View ArticleTrump – without a life jacket
He came into office promising to drain the swamp but now he’s up to his ears in filth. Never in our glorious history have we witnessed such a quick and dishonorable descent. Will he soon blow bubbles...
View ArticleTrump supporters threaten revenge
The gloves are off as two high profile Trump followers threaten civil war and targeted violence against Americans daring to speak truth to power, meaning the president. Such is the rage against...
View ArticleFollowing the Nazi Playbook
Donald Trump is following the playbook of the embryonic Nazi party in pre-war Germany. Everyone knows a white supremacist rammed his car into the crowd at Charlottesville, killing a woman and injuring...
View ArticleSlavery, Jim Crow, and Now Swastikas
A dusty 145-year-old report details how white Southerners ignored defeat in the civil war and terrified former slaves into submission again. Many of the nightriders wore disguises as they randomly...
View ArticleErasing Symbols of White Supremacy
Activists demanding removal of Confederate statues and memorials as an offense to segments of modern society should think hard before taking to the streets to protest. If everyone succumbed to their...
View ArticleAre Trump’s Days Numbered?
No one but the incumbent has brought such ignorance, disgrace, and fascist trends to the presidency. In only nine months Donald Trump has bashed his predecessor, lied about the size of his inaugural...
View ArticleThe Ventriloquist’s Dummy
They follow him like sheep. Not a bleep. Blindly, they mouth the ventriloquist’s voice. What Trump says is gospel, especially to his minions in the White House. The worst offender is his press...
View ArticleJoking about Concentration Camps
A Jewish celebrity, Larry David, recently poked fun at Nazi concentration camps to the hilarious guffaws of millions of television viewers watching Saturday Night Live. He imagined being sent to a...
View ArticleToppling Trump
There is a way to cut Trump down to size and halt the slide to autocracy. But first let us count the ways he behaved like a drunk. He cares zilch for checks and balances. He rides roughshod over...
View ArticleEyewitness to Desecration in Jerusalem
For those too young or not even born when Israel captured east Jerusalem and the Old City in the Six Day War of 1967, let me relate what I saw as a journalist. I am prompted to write this piece after...
View ArticleAre Trump’s Days Numbered?
No one but the incumbent has brought such ignorance, disgrace, and fascist trends to the presidency. In only nine months Donald Trump has bashed his predecessor, lied about the size of his inaugural...
View ArticleThe Ventriloquist’s Dummy
They follow him like sheep. Not a bleep. Blindly, they mouth the ventriloquist’s voice. What Trump says is gospel, especially to his minions in the White House. The worst offender is his press...
View ArticleJoking about Concentration Camps
A Jewish celebrity, Larry David, recently poked fun at Nazi concentration camps to the hilarious guffaws of millions of television viewers watching Saturday Night Live. He imagined being sent to a...
View ArticleToppling Trump
There is a way to cut Trump down to size and halt the slide to autocracy. But first let us count the ways he behaved like a drunk. He cares zilch for checks and balances. He rides roughshod over...
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