Monthly Archives: October 2019

“How can people sing and dance in a world on its head?” That quote, as I recollect, is from the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. How can people sing and dance in a world on its head? Senator Mitch McConnell has … Continue reading →

Secret sources provide Associated Press with hot info from the secret inquiry Saturday session involving Philip Reeker, acting assistant secretary of state for Europe. “[A] person” spoke to AP “on condition of anonymity”; “[t]wo people” revealed Reeker testimony but “requested … Continue reading →

“Something very big has just happened!” tweeted President Donald Trump last evening. Trump will make a “major statement” to the nation at 9 a.m. ET Sunday, reported CNBC. [1] Trump’s “cryptic tweet” caused “a wild guessing game”, reported Russia Today … Continue reading →

The father of lies stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations. (Thus sayeth 2 Nephi 9:9.) A free Book of Mormon was offered. Ersjdamoo took up the offer. But then, along with the free book, came two Mormons … Continue reading →

From what I call The A-3 Files (Associated Press reports continually published on page A-3 of the local newspaper), under the heading “conspiracy theories”, we have AP mentioning what it calls “unsubstantiated conspiracy theories” about a Ukrainian link to the … Continue reading →

The star chamber proceedings in Washington, DC were disrupted yesterday when a group of congressional representatives shouldered their way into the secretive inquiry. [1] Democratic lawmakers have argued that the initial interviews of the investigation must be done in private … Continue reading →

Suppose you really hate someone. Suppose his name is Donald Trump. Does that mean it is okay to deny him due process? Due process, like freedom of speech, is especially important in those cases where you really hate the guy. … Continue reading →

Among memorable meltdowns, who can forget the Edwin Stanton meltdown of 1868, when he barricaded himself in the War Department building? And now it has been found that Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War during the Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson … Continue reading →

Won’t you please say a prayer for the health and safety of Nancy Pelosi? She has had a bad week. Already under immense stress, Nancy finally snapped during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, October 16, 2019. Shortly … Continue reading →

John T. Morse, Jr. writes, in his introduction to the Gideon Welles diary, that back in the antebellum 19th century the Democrats had become the party of the Southern slavocracy and had the honesty to boast themselves the party of … Continue reading →