A group of religious leaders gathered on a sunny Sunday, just outside the oval office. The group presented Donald Trump with a portrait. by famed artist Dan Robbins. The portrait of Mr. Trump envisages how Mr. Robbins, an evangelical Christian and member of the Church of the Grateful Messiah, [...]
Archive for April, 2019
April 10th, 2019 - 1:09 am § in Misc.
TRUMP ACCEPTS PORTRAIT FROM GRATEFUL
The Scandal of Online Education
Highline, a new online magazine from the Huffington Post has a disturbing article on the abuse of higher education by private, for profit, online education services. The author, Kevin Carey is the director of education policy program at a policy institute, New America. His key points [...]
April 9th, 2019 - 11:47 pm § in Misc.
EU and CHINA …move on after Trump
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, appearing at a news conference with EU head Tusk and Juncker, declared the agreements reached at the summit “something good for China’s reform and opening-up endeavors, and good for European unity and prosperity.” The big loser … the US an[...]
April 9th, 2019 - 2:27 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Netanyahu Sort of wins. Gantz ticket has plurality
JPOST.COM Gantz beats Netanyahu with largest number of seats, coalition unclear Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party triumphed over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday’s elections, as exit polls released late in the evening showed the party winning 37of the Knesset’s 120 sea[...]
Trump Effs Baseball, Embargoes Cubans From Playing in the MLB
“Yep! when asked whether the move was “more effort to pinch Cuba” Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said the administration was “going to do everything we can to pull [Cuba] out” of Venezuela. “ In his last year as President, Barack Obama, a Chicago White Sox fan, [...]
AFTER TRUMP: China is now Germany’s Leading Trade Partner
China for the first time became Germany’s most important trading partner in 2016, overtaking the United States, which fell back to third place behind France, data showed on Friday. German imports from and exports to China rose to 170 billion euros ($180 billion) last year, Federal Statistics O[...]
April 8th, 2019 - 8:02 am § in Israel/Palestine, Jews
Why Israelis Vote Bibi
The death of Israel’s moderates and the founding labor movement reflects a reality. Fo all the comfort of Jews in America. Israelis have real reasons to fear that the Jewish state can not survive. This fake news video parody was broadcast during the 2019 election. [...]
April 8th, 2019 - 1:44 am § in News Media
CNN, MSNBC have become Fox Like, Bring Back the Evening News!
I think an old fashioned evening news show, reporting world and American news, would be a huge draw. As it is we get whatever the day story is, often planted by Trump, recooked to sell clicks for each host. Someone at CNN,and MSNBC, jist as ta Fox, gets together each night and sets out the […[...]
Why I Oppose “Free College”
The Bernies are touting another slogan .. free college. Great slogan but an idea that they have not thought out. The US has about 30 million college-age kids. If we estimate the cost of college at $50,000, that comes out to $1,500,000,000,000. That is 1.5% TRILLION dollars! The Bernies prot[...]