I had the fortune to be born during the administration of one of the great American Presidents of the twentieth century, Harry Truman. He serves as the inspiration for this site’s title and some of its content. What the reader can expect when they visit this web site is, at a minimum, a daily posting on a topic of political importance based on the truth and, almost without exception, a progressive viewpoint. Continue reading
Today the subject matter of this column will be new. It is also disturbing; in fact it will cross from my usual PG rating into R territory. I have never discussed this topic here before because my feelings are so intense. The topic is pedophilia and some of my readers may desire to contemplate if they want to continue reading. Continue reading
In basketball if you won a close game at home and it appeared the officials may have helped the cause with a favorable call or two it was called home cookin’. Our tax codes have provisions which favor large, multi-national firms at the expense of everyone else. They actually get a legal tax break for keeping their money offshore – well sort of anyway. Fellow nerds read on; others may want to take a day off from this column. Continue reading
There is an old adage of biblical origin that says, “Live by the sword, die by the sword”. Hopefully the next to learn that is Virginia Republican Gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli gamed the system in Virginia to ensure his nomination only to have it come back to very possibly bite him Saturday. Continue reading
May 21, 2013
Dear Non-Oklahoma Members of the United States Senate: Continue reading
Lately I often write about North Carolina. While Tea Party/Republican insanity exists in every state, in 2013 North Carolina appears to be the epicenter. The examples are literally too plentiful to all be chronicled in this space. Today I want to explore two somewhat related ones that emerged from the North Carolina House of Representatives recently. Continue reading
The other day I was thinking about what really holds the Tea Party/Republican coalition together. The conventional political wisdom is that they need each other. The true Republicans standing alone are simply too few and too regional to have any viability outside of parts of the Deep South. The Tea Party is simply a very vocal minority. What unites them is their hatred of Barack Obama. Continue reading
Using the last few days as an example, if corporate America displayed the same degree of responsibility that Obama’s Executive Branch displayed we would have much less corporate malfeasance. News of the IRS “scandal” broke on Friday, May 10th and by Wednesday, May 15th the head of the IRS was effectively fired. Continue reading
To say it was a bad week for the Obama White House is an understatement – Benghazi, the IRS and the AP, just to name the top three “scandals”. While the President will never have to run for elected office again, he is the leader of his Party and he doesn’t want to be an albatross around Democrats’ necks in 2014. Unless there is some bombshell information yet to come, I don’t think two of these will resonate with anyone other than people who would never vote for a Democrat anyway. The third is a potential long-term problem for Obama and by extension the entire Democratic Party. Continue reading
What to write about is seldom a problem for me. The opposite is true with good stories often waiting a day or more to be published. Tuesday morning was a great example. At 8:33am my Blackberry buzzed with a blurb from the Washington Post about a story they just posted entitled, U. S. diplomat detained in Moscow accused of spying on Russia. This just reinforced a central point in the Benghazi controversy that has received almost no coverage; and it’s something my generation should remember well from the Cold War days when it was already old hat. Often what appears to be a diplomatic mission is largely a cover for an espionage operation. Continue reading
In mid-March when it was abruptly announced that Ed Schultz was leaving his 8pm weeknights timeslot for a weekend gig many feared that MSNBC was effectively putting him out to pasture. This weekend our fears were confirmed. What was originally billed as a two hour show that would give Schultz the latitude to do the on location, real people segments he excels at did not materialize. What we saw this Saturday and Sunday was basically the template, in studio, show he did on weeknights. Continue reading
