Trump Predictions
(Guest post by Jim Stewart) Prediction: Buyer's Remorse? By Remembrance Day this year (2025), the US will be experiencing the Mother of All Buyer's Remorse. The Reaganesque question "Are you…
Checkers
When Qatar gave Donald Trump a jet, I started thinking about past gifts to politicians. Checkers came to mind. A Cocker Spaniel pup and a $400 million 747-8, and two…
Musk’s Legion
In normal times, this would be a headline only in the Weekly World News, not in pretty much every paper out there: “Inside Musk’s plan to make a ‘legion’ of…
What Trump said
It’s easy to forget things. But some things shouldn't be forgotten. So in case you’ve not been following Donald Trump news, and you’re looking back at his time as president…
The Trump Goodbye
Every day there's something on the television screen that you've never seen before. Something that you want to capture for your own historical record. The departure of Donald J. Trump,…
King’s Curse
The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory is about Henry VIII. It was published in 2014. Despite knowing this, I kept checking the publication date because of passages like this: Dear…
Honduran Contra Camps 1989
Donald Trump calls it "the Democrat Party led... assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador..." (Twitter Oct. 18, 2018). A caravan of migrants started in Honduras, headed…
West Virginia
In 1971 my parents and I drove through West Virginia on our way from Ontario to Kentucky. We'd never been there before and it was stunningly beautiful. So we took…
One Trump Year
One Trump year is like one dog year - very long! Tomorrow, January 20th, is the first anniversary of his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States. A…
Code Talkers
In the early part of World War II, the enemy was breaking every military code that was being used in the Pacific. This created a huge problem for strategizing against…
David Duke and Donald Trump
David Duke said "we're going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump" during the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville VA on Saturday. David Duke, former Imperial Wizard of the…
Un-American Affairs
A selection from More in Anger (1958), a collection of essays by American social critic and satirist Marya Mannes. From 1904 to 1990, her life spanned most of the 20th…
First Hundred Hours
In his first hundred hours - from midday Friday to this afternoon, President Donald Trump has been busy. Signing executive orders: Directing all federal agencies to ease the "regulatory burdens"…
Trump Imagery
What is the appeal of The Donald as president? Trump imagery over Trump policy, I suspect. But why? Reading The Englishman's Boy, I got a clue from a 1923 fictional…
US: The New Brunswick Option
For disenchanted Americans, I have an escape plan that keeps with historical tradition - New Brunswick. In case of a Trump win in the US presidential race, Cape Breton has…