Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Donald Trump
It’s been quite a week for the Tweeter In Chief. He fired and hired, constructed and destructed, lectured, gestured and lit a fuse on a revolution. But for all the stunning news out of the White House during President Trump’s first week in office, perhaps the most instructive hint about what’s to come happened ten…
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President Donald J. Trump began and ended his inaugural address with the same phrase that he has used throughout his amazingly unlikely quest for and capture of The White House, “Make America Great Again.” A derivation, “America First,” was the one and only theme of the address, and, we must infer that it will be…
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He’ll say what he always says, “Make America Great Again.” The words “great” and “best” will be used often. Donald Trump’s power base will not abide his straying from the conservative reform path, so he will concentrate on Health Care, Taxes, Immigration. Health Care repeal and reform is well underway. Too bad, because it’s being…
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The notion that official Washington, DC, and specifically the Democratic Party, only recently discovered that official Russia, and specifically that bad boy Vladimir Putin, have been hacking sensitive email accounts to mine political loot for years should come as no surprise. Yet, surprised they were when yet another morsel of sophistry to explain the defeat…
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[Editor’s Note: Our friend, Dr. Scott Sturman, passed along this profile of the incoming Secretary of State nominee. Interesting reading from someone close to the subject. Edited for space. -Bud Elliott] I met Steve in 2010 in Nepal while hiking in the Annapurna region. He graduated from the US Naval Academy, received an MBA from…
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Jose Ramirez was one year old when Barbara Boxer entered the U.S. Senate. The year was 1993, The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, signed into law by outgoing President George H.W. Bush, began the era of California water victimhood, safe spaces and cuddle puppies for a newly-discovered endangered little fish. The CVPIA placed the environment…
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Each year the World Ag Expo in Tulare hosts farmers, ranchers, suppliers, manufacturers, and related ag industries from nearly every country on earth. For several years, recruiters from states like Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Kentucky have arrived early to the 3-day Expo and stayed late to try to lure San Joaquin Valley dairymen to…
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When a police officer dies in the line of duty it is common for his or her fellow officers to place a strip of black tape across their badges, this is called a mourning badge and it usually stays on until the day following the funeral of the deceased officer. It is also common…
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