Adhering to the terms of international trade deals, or any international deals for that matter, has always been a matter of trust. And trust mattered, for without it, no deal was a deal, and no country could be held to its end of a bargain if it simply chose not to honor its obligations. After…

Every once in a while, someone calls for a new constitutional convention to fix the myriad problems people have with the existing Constitution. Do away with the Electoral College? Make the Senate more democratic? Allow for the criminalization of hate speech? End the right to keep and bear arms?
But what if that same convention…

Trump has officially nominated his criminal defense lawyer, now on the payroll of the Department of Justice as the Acting Attorney General following the firing of Pamela Jo Bondi, who replaced his first choice, Matt Gaetz, to be the Attorney General of the United States. While this might not come as much of a surprise…

President Trump was interviewed by Kristen Welker for Meet The Press. It did not go well. But for whom?

For some, this was one of the most revealing interviews, reflecting Trump’s detachment from reality, abusiveness toward the media in general and a woman interviewer in particular, and inability to deal with any challenge to his…

While I was hardly a regular watcher of The Apprentice, I did watch occasionally, particularly in the early seasons. One thing stood out to me then. The losing team would have a leader, and Trump would ask the leader who was at fault for the team losing. Most of the time, the team leader would…

Prefatory Note: Enjoy this one from the archives this week, friends. Your humble humorist is currently attempting to navigate a professional software “update” that makes me want to pull my remaining hair out of my head.—CLS
It’s summer in Tennessee. That means the weather goes from barely tolerable at 7 AM to “Satan’s Front Porch”…

Much has been made of Republican Senators finally finding their guts to say no to Trump’s wildest and most outrageously unlawful actions. It was put to the test in an appropriations bill to fund ICE and CBT with $70 billion for the next three years, where amendment after amendment was offered to address the myriad…