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Shutdown Woes – Bureaucrats Getting Real Jobs Like Driving For Uber
There’s long been a certain suspicion that we don’t need quite as much government as we actually get.…
Robert Reich Amuses – If Trump’s A Dictator Then So Were Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton Twice and Obama
There’s always an amusement to reading Robert Reich. The political partisanship can be so naked as he entirely…
Coastguard’s TipSheet For Furloughed Employees – It’s A Copy From A Debt Management Company
The Coastguard had up on one of its websites a little tipsheet for employees who had been furloughed…
As We Said, Government Shutdown Won’t Stop Snap, Food Stamps
A few days back we predicted that the government shutdown over Trump’s border wall wouldn’t influence the distribution…
Trump’s Being Fair To Deny California FEMA Forest Fire Money – Fires Are Hardly Unusual There
Donald Trump has announced that he’s going to – or desires to – stop sending money to California…
Trump’s Border Wall Speech In Full – Not Quite Ronnie’s Tear That Down Mr. Gorbachov But…
Of American Presidents who have made speeches about walls we think we prefer Ronald Reagan’s in front of…
Trumps’ Government Shutdown Won’t Affect SNAP – Food Stamps – The Fix Will Be In
There’s a certain amount of muttering that the government shutdown – prompted by Trump’s insistence that he really,…
Why Raise Taxes For The Green New Deal? Ocasio Cortez Said It Would Be Profitable
There’s a certain puzzlement in this from Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. For she tells us that taxes on high…
Trump’s Bone Spurs Diagnosis As A Favour – Wondrously Hearsay Evidence
It is, of course, entirely possible that Donald Trump’s bone spurs were diagnosed as a favour to his…
But Priests Are Supposed To Condemn Suicide – It’s The Ultimate Sin
A strange case here, where a priest is under fire for having stated standard Catholic doctrine. Sure, if…