Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 54
March 22, 2017
A tale of two negotiators
If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
March 14, 2017
Georgetown, Texas: Second-Hand Prose
The Georgetown public library book nook is possibly the best library bookstore I’ve been to.
March 8, 2017
Trump outsmarts establishment again?
You know, the funny thing is, how lousy most of your lies are. You tell violent lies, you tell dirty lies, you tell scurrilous lies about conservative families. But most of your lies are not very good, are they? Funny that so many smart people can work so hard on lies, and spend all that money on them, and, what do you think it is? It must be the money. It turns everything to crap.
March 1, 2017
Election lessons: Obamacare and how compromise works
As Republicans work into 2017, they need to learn how negotiations and compromise work. President Trump may not be the best teacher, but he at least understands how to negotiate.
February 28, 2017
Discretely and with quiet strength: the Underwood Champion Portable
The ultimate distraction-free writing app is a typewriter.
February 22, 2017
How many legs does the ACA have?
If you call public assistance insurance, how many people have insurance? The left wants us to believe that, like Lincoln’s apocryphal dog, the ACA has five legs. But when you call a tail a leg, that doesn’t mean the dog can walk on it.
February 17, 2017
Fifth Avenue Books closing
It looks like Fifth Avenue Books in San Diego is about to close for good.
February 15, 2017
Beltway establishment goes full Panem on Trumps
The establishment left is using The Hunger Games as a manual for government. The Ivanka Trump scandal seems less about ethics than about keeping beltway politics safe for political dynasties.
February 14, 2017
Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
I just saw the second part of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy. It is amazing.
February 8, 2017
The Last Defense against Donald Trump?
When you’ve dismantled every other defense, what’s left except the whining? The fact is, Democrats can easily defend against Trump over-using the power of the presidency. They don’t want to, because they want that power intact when they get someone in.
