I Alone Can Fix It
I Alone Can Fix It – Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year. Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s investigative journalism might have been titled, Duck Dynasty & Survivor Meets As the World Turns. Subtitled Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, I Alone Can Fix It might better be described as Duck Dynasty and Survivor meet As the […]
Demagogue, The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
DEMAGOGUE, THE LIFE AND LONG SHADOW OF SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY One of my first memories of TV occurred during the summer of 1954 when I watched Senator Joe McCarthy conduct one of his famously brutal “find the Commie in a haystack” investigations as Chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Investigation Sub-Committee. I was eleven; we […]
What Happened
WHAT HAPPENED Like a dedicated political junkie, I followed in real time the events that Hillary Clinton retraces in her book about the 2016 presidential campaign. I thoroughly enjoyed reading What Happened because I liked comparing her insider interpretations with my own outsider perceptions. She was living the highs and the lows while I was […]