Trump’s Sixth-Sense Moment with the Seventh Estate
Trump continues to prosecute his war with the media, the so-called “fourth estate”calling them an “enemy of the people,” but it is the “seventh” estate, the bureaucracy, that will be … Continue reading
Trump Politicizes National Security Council: Joint Chief Chair Out, Bannon In
The White House is now tinkering with national security in a way that will almost insure an invitation of Jidhadist guerilla warfare’s acceleration. Trump is tuning out the sources of rational … Continue reading
America’s Most Infamous ‘Club’ Makes Trump Pick Larry Kudlow A Dangerous Man
CNBC pundit Laurence “Larry” Kudlow is rumored to be on president-elect Donald Trump’s short list to chair the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), the most influential economic council in the … Continue reading
Lügenpresse: The Bridge Too Far in Trusting Trump
Scranton, PA. Thousands of people in a hall hear Trump’s call: “The lying media…” and then it begins. The chant rises: “Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse! Lügenpresse!” My 16 year old said: … Continue reading
Trump & The Death Throes of White Power
Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy. He’s also a symptom. The 10.7M Americans who voted for him in the fractional, factional primaries, are part of the death throes … Continue reading
Talking NATO, Trump Finds Black Lives Don’t Matter
Brian Ross (Appeared originally at The Huffington Post) The “bombshell” headline of the New York Times’ David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman interview with Donald Trump was supposed to be … Continue reading
Win the White House… Why? Gridlock is Power to Libertarians
(First published at The Huffington Post) by Brian Ross Conventional wisdom has been that the party who holds the White House holds real power. No longer. Serve up whatever clown … Continue reading