Big news last week was that while President Trump was in Vietnam for a summit meeting with Kim, the Democrat Congressional Oversight Committee just by coincidence brought Michael Cohen in for three days of hearings. The first day was closed door, but the second day was a seven hour public hearing to be followed by another closed door on the third day. As expected, the … [Read more...]
Summit, Smollett, Sanders & Schiff
Big news today is that President Trump is meeting with North Koreas Kim Jong-un in Vietnam. Everyone is watching to see what substantive events will occur. Backers of Trump are hoping that he will push for more denuclearization. Enemies of Trump, the mainstream media, are rooting for a Trump failure. Other nay sayers are afraid that Trump will give away too much and get very … [Read more...]
Alexandria in wonderland
At the time of this writing, a week ago, the main topic of conversation at a local caffee klatch was the ludicrous New Green Deal authored by Ocasio-Cortez. One attendee wondered what O-C was smoking, drinking or ingesting. Another said that currently O-C is like a loose cannon rumbling around the halls of Congress. Here are some of the high points of her proposal; … [Read more...]
A wall by any other name
At the time of this writing the Democrats and Republican were meeting to negotiate effective border security. At the same time Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reiterating her stance on the fact that there would be no money for a Wall. This comes as a little bit of a surprise since both she and Senator Schumer said they would be open to negotiations once the Government shutdown has … [Read more...]
Pelosi’s pique
There was a plethora of news last week, with the most important being speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi disinviting President Trump from the house chambers to give the State Of The Union message. This Presidented action could possibly be the result of Trumps pulling Nancy’s military plane trip to the Mid- East out from under her. This tit for tat has been going on since … [Read more...]
Washington hi-jinks
ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE. Last week saw the hearings by the Senate Judicial Committee of proposed A.G. Barr. For the most part the hearings were primarily civil when compared to the hearings of Supreme Court Judge Kavanaugh. Except for the man-hating femme Senator from Hawaii most on the left seemed to approve of Barr’s performance. Most of the Democrats were concerned … [Read more...]
Shutdown showdown
While this is being written a week ago the Washington shutdown may have already been solved. Last week following President Trumps Tuesday night address on the border crisis, the two sides-Republican and Democrat-seemed firmly entrenched in their opposite positions. While the President in a very short speech summarized the situation, the opposition continued to call the crisis … [Read more...]
Ty Cobb redux
Last week when I reviewed Ty Cobb’s book I had hoped to include some of my personal interfaces with the iconic news man. Unfortunately space did not permit this, so I wish to relate some today. I first became aware of Ty Cobb, the sportswriter, when I came to Reno to play basketball for the University. In the day room at Lincoln Hall there were usually a couple of copies of … [Read more...]