by Henry Oliner | Feb 4, 2020 | Politics
I generally ignore political Facebook memes. If a ‘friend’ drowns me in political nonsense, I just ‘unfriend’ them, but I do make an exception for a few real friends and a few family members. One such meme has Donald Trump’s mother saying her son is an idiot and...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 24, 2018 | Politics
From Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal, Voices of Reason and Unreason: A word on the destructive theatrics we now see gripping parts of the Democratic Party. The howling and screeching that interrupted the hearings and the voting, the people who clawed on the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2018 | Democrats, Politics
The Blue Wave is barely a ripple. The visceral reaction to Nancy Pelosi was a big fact in their loss of the House in 2010. Only two years before all the media relegated the Republicans to the dustbin of history. Nancy Pelosi remains as viscerally objectionable today...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
From Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal, Voices of Reason and Unreason: But the Kavanaugh hearings had some new elements. There were no boundaries on inquiry, no bowing to the idea of a private self. Accusations were made about the wording of captions under...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 12, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism, Uncategorized
A thoughtful look at why this even coalesced the right more than past conflicts; The Kavanaugh hearing has united the GOP for now. But why? The outrage and anger from both wings of the Republican Party was tremendous. But the far right of the party is often outraged...
