Is this what we have now become? Brian Thompson, CEO of the American UnitedHealthcare company since 2021, was gunned down outside the Manhattan Midtown Hilton hotel, on December 4. Thompson was in the city to attend an annual company investors' meeting. His company had been under criticism for rejection of insurance cl...

Last week I said I was rooting for President-elect Donald J. Trump. I still am; but he's already making it difficult. As the president-elect makes his cabinet selections, one could get the feeling that he is less concerned with the qualifications of his nominees, and more interested in bringing absolute loyalty into hi...

I read this yesterday, "America has dwelled on division for far too long. The way forward is together." That's good for a laugh, huh? Who sees Americans as "together" today? Let me get this out of the way - Congratulations to Donald Trump. And to all of his supporters, you surprised much of the coun...

A good friend (call him Jack) expressed strong disagreement with critical opinions I expressed last week regarding the 2024 political scene. I have asked readers to tell me what they think, and they have. I enjoy all feedback, as long as it's civil, and as you might imagine in today's divided America, I've upset a few ...

In a column yesterday, I admitted that I do not understand 2024 politics, and I confessed to being a RINO (Republican in name only), having left Trump well before the 2016 election. I wanted to see when other people left... or when they didn't. PART ONE was yesterday (you can see it here: ). Even with two columns, I ca...

Obviously, the presidential race is tight. Admittedly, I don't understand that, but the older I get, the less I understand. As a Republican (a RINO now), I left Trump during the 2016 campaign. So, I just want to see when some other people said "no mas" or not. So, let's do this. PART TWO will post tomorrow. *...

" The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check," JD Vance complained to Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, moderators of the vice-presidential debate, when they clarified a certain point about his claim of cat-eating immigrants in Springfield, OH. "Nothing was ever scheduled or locked in. ...

Former President Donald Trump said "a tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it's a tax on us. No, ...it's a tax that doesn't affect our country." Donald Trump loves tariffs and seems to believe that he can cut taxes for all Americans by just waving the magic tariff wand. Well, who ...

Why are we so divided? Donald Trump's 2024 campaign seems to have devolved into a message of unintelligible babbling combined with a mix of racist lies, all begging the question, do Donald Trump and J.D. Vance want to win this election? Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders jumped into the fray this week at a Michig...

Donald Trump's campaign team promised that their candidate didn't need debate-prep because he'd be like Muhammad Ali. Kamala Harris wouldn't know what direction his rhetorical punches would be coming from. His unpredictability would be devastating to Harris in their debate. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The...

The conventions are done, They both were such fun, Making promises and spewing forth lies. New candidates were named, Sadly, others remained Too many lows, a few highs. The campaign is ablaze, A Trump-Harris race. A new version of left versus right. One hands out cash, The other talks trash, Such division, it'll be qui...

In this column, over the past several years, we have ranted about serious topics, and a few not-so-serious. We've tried to provoke thought, with a little satire and a lot of tongue-in-cheek. Yesterday brought back a life and death topic (mostly death) that just doesn't ever seem to go away. Mass shootings have already ...

The political conventions are over, and now it's time for Donald Trump to shift the focus back where it belongs - on him. One way to do that is to bring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the fold, make him part of the team, and take advantage of all that Kennedy support. As Trump said at a campaign stop in Michigan a week ago...

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose... It's how you play the game... And how the game is played has all changed, in presidential politics, since Donald Trump threw his hat in the ring. There has been a fire-hose dose of political news over the past three weeks, enough to make your head spin. There was a president...

In 2019 we had the big class reunion - the 50th!! Yep, we are the infamous Coldwater class of '69. I wrote about that reunion and admitted that a class reunion was not my most highly anticipated event. After all, why would anyone want to go spend an evening with 100+ people that he had made no effort to have contact wi...

On July 4, I wrote "It's time to go, Joe" - (). In the two+ weeks that followed, many of President Joe Biden's confidants and colleagues urged Biden to withdraw from the presidential campaign. It became clear that he was not the best option for the Democratic party to offer to serve for four more years as the...

They are unpredictable, they are unmanageable, they are entitled, and yes, they are wacky. We've never had a Supreme Court like this one. Remember when judges, especially Supreme Court justices, thought that justice is blind? Remember when they were non-partisan, or at least pretended to be? Remember when they were res...

Tick-tock, Mr. President; tick-tock. You say you are still running, but right now it's the clock that's running; please don't let it run down much more. It's time to go. There has been a problem with your campaign, and it has not gotten better. While the debate last week was dreadful, you had problems before that. Peop...

So, what did you think would happen? Did it play out the way you expected, hoped, or imagined? Two old guys, each a U.S. President, debating to decide the next U.S. President? It was hyped, it was promoted, it was much anticipated. Conservatives couldn't wait to see Trump demonstrate how old Biden has become, and Democ...

If you have not read the published document, Project 2025, or possibly even heard of it, know this. Project 2025 is one of several think-tank proposals suggesting actions and/or policies for the next conservative president; most believe it to be generated in support of a Donald Trump second term, and Trump has referenc...