(This is a work in progress, changing daily, as we move along from news story to news story.) Not yet two months into the Trump Administration, new news is coming fast and furious, and a lot of people are already beginning to worry…
Category: Elitism and Class
To be American, American Exceptionalism and Assimilation
(Edited 7 AM, Monday, March 6) I think there is a general misconception of just what assimilation means to the ideal of “to be American”. To understand American exceptionalism you must first realize that it was created by the American people,…
Foreward to the Revised Edition, “How the American People Found Donald Trump”
March 2017, Richmond Donald Trump has been president now for less than two months, and remarkably, he seems to be keeping to his promises despite legions of opponents lined up to turn his path away from keeping those promises. The coming scuffle…
How Donald Trump Can Rescue the Economies of Latin America Using Mexico as a Model
A good story, by Kate Linthicum of the Los Angeles Times, A Tale of Two Cities, What Happened When Factory Jobs Moved from Warren, Ohio to Juarez, Mexico, should give us pause about that part of the “jobs to Mexico”…
Riff Raff Runways
(First written in 2010 at RedState.com, reprised, without edit, by popular demand. A little dated but still a good tale.) Are riff-raff runways in America’s future? I’ll bet you didn’t know that Europe has had them for years, at least…