Kristi Noem defended the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, despite videos showing that it was an overreaction by the ICE officer. We have cowbo...

The consequences of the 2024 election are coming home and abroad to roost much harder and faster than Trump's critics could have imagine...

In the early 1900's, the United Fruit Company installed a president in Honduras, and the phrase Banana Republic came into fruition. We n...

From the photos released from the Situation Room at Mar-a- Lago, you would have thought that Trump was directing the invasion of Normandy in...

Trump just came off a big weekend with the Venezuela snatching of Maduro. MAGA and the Republican hierarchy are basking in a perceived accom...

A century ago we managed Central and South America for bananas and rubber. Trump has now decided that he and the oil industry can have Venez...

Yesterday, I claimed that I was going to become more fashionable, but little did I know that I was only a few hours away from an identity cr...

New York new Mayor Mamdani is taking the oath of office in an abandoned Manhattan subway station. New Lehigh County Executive Josh Siegel is...

There is probably nobody reading this who knows less about Amanda Seyfried and Charlie Kirk than me. I never saw a Amanda Seyfried movie, an...

There is a commotion in the Allentown Democratic Party over the  candidate for the special election to replace resigning Josh Siegel. Siegel...

Earlier this year when it became apparent that Trump's amateur cabinet was becoming detrimental to the nation's welfare, this blog b...

As a blogger, I'm constantly accused of watching and listening to the wrong fake news, depending upon the persuasion of the reader I...

Recently I posted about Bill White's recommended Christmas Light tours.  I hope that caravans of  new SUV's are taking White's...

With 60 Minutes killing its exposé on Venezuelans in the El Salvador prison, we have effectively entered an era of censorship. Between Trump...

Isaacman's second appointment to lead NASA took, unlike the first. He obviously has whatever administrative skills are necessary to run ...

When Matt Tuerk talks about making Allentown bike friendly, he wasn't thinking about large group of teenage riders, often starting in th...

When I read about the new train to NYC feasibility study, I looked like I needed that drug for drug induced involuntary motions. My head was...

I believe that Trump's address to the nation was conceived by Susan Wiles, to show that she is still in the co-pilot seat, despite her ...

Ryan Mackenzie has stood up and signed on to a petition intended to extend the ACA subsidies. Although the petition was sponsored by Democra...

It's no  surprise that Trump and Company is campaigning for the midterms with the polls predicting a blue tidal wave. As I peck away on ...

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social:  “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once ...

Post graduates students of this blog know that in addition to my Allentown base, I rent a small, low rent office inland from Cape Canaveral....

There are a number of groups, Principles First among others, that don't relate to the current administration and certainly not the MAGA ...

Subscribers of this blog know that I have a satellite office in-land from Cape Canaveral. While my little desk rattles from the Brightline D...

When it comes to the taxpayer's money in Pennsylvania, only one elected official out of one of the largest statehouses in the country se...

If I was the casting director for Saturday Night Live, I could not have come up with a better group behind Trump for his Affordability spee...

Trump closed the border on day one, but from day two forward his administration has been a disaster.  An increasingly disturbed narcissist, ...

I have been wrestling with the Allentown Park System for over twenty years about the weed walls, aka Riparian Buffers.The bout started in Ke...

 Trump tells us that bad news is fake news. With the economy not going his way, his explanations get more far fetched. I was particularly ...

Pete will be gone soon... Attacking two survivors clinging to a damaged boat is hard to defend. He will resign, rather than face impeachment...

 Josh Siegel has set up a very ambitious transition team for his coronation as County Executive. He has checked all the progressive boxes, s...

Up to very recently, I was fairly well accepted as a geniune independent conservative. When I ran as a independent in the 2005 mayoral race,...

Making Allentown bicycle friendly is what lawyers call an attractive nuisance. Pity the poor suburbanite with his helmet and spandex who pe...

Some of the hardest working people in the country today are those defending Donald Trump's inconsistent, perhaps irrational, proclamatio...

Donald Trump wants a trophy for fixing the things that he broke. He's now looking at extending the Affordable Care Act, after our countr...

Subscribers to this blog remember that I took Mayor Matt Tuerk to task for his trip to the Dominican Republic. Although there are many Domin...

I don't purport to be nice, that's a trait that never reached me. While this blog is in its eighteenth year, only recently have I br...

Mark Kelly and others reminded Trump last week that the military is not obliged to follow illegal orders in violation of the Constitution. T...

When the Trump family sat down with the royal family of Saudi Arabia last week, the MAGA red hats were not invited. While the disciples ate ...

I know a little about Kline's Island, enough to know that the LCA and the city had to know about the camp being there. I had no issue wi...

The Intelligence agencies must have been wincing when Trump defended the prince against the reporter's question.  Likewise, normally the...

Seems as if freshman congressman Ryan Mackenzie wants a ribbon for voting along with all the other Republicans, save one, for opening the Ep...

My rerun TV channels are full of Medicare ads. We're told that it's open season on enrollment, and call one of their licensed agents...

If I was a Republican congressman, I would be offended by the President saying that We Have Nothing To Hide.   Unless I was an associate of ...

Never in the history of the country has there been a more transactional presidency. Combine that flaw with an unqualified cabinet, and we ha...

As my readers know, I'm no fan of Trump, but I have no concerns about his past with Epstein. Years before Trump ran the first time, ther...

US Senator Dave McCormick(Pa), put out a video suggesting that New Yorkers upset with new mayor Mamdani should move to Pennsylvania. Thanks ...

I called myself a conservative looking for a home, after the Republican Party sold itself out to Trump and a win. While there is interest an...

I don't relish repeatedly taking Ryan Mackenzie to task, because come mid-terms, I'm hoping that he is my candidate of choice. His s...

From the newly gold gilt plated Oval Office, the everyman's president thinks people can pound cake, instead of food. By the time this ed...