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There are several things that concern me as we enter the 2024 election season. I’m certainly concerned with the ‘quality’ of some of the Republican candidates.  Leading the parade is Trump who has essentially vowed to use the government as his own personal vendetta tool should the electorate be foolish enough to usher him into… Continue reading June 26, 2023

Things are certainly getting interesting in Russia.  The tension between Viktorovich Prigozhin and his private mercenary Wagner Group and the Russian Defense Ministry seems to have reached a boiling point.  This tension has been ongoing for some time with Prigozhin accusing the regular Russian military of incompetence while his Warner Group has often been a… Continue reading June 25, 2023

It continues to become apparent that the current Republican party has no real interest in actually governing.  Their policies seem to consist of ‘slash taxes’, ‘absolutely no gun control’, and whatever culture war seems to inflame their base.  Instead, they are concentrating all their efforts on 1) buying their way into power and control, 2)… Continue reading June 22, 2023

There is no doubt that we will all tire of hearing about Hunter Biden between now and the 2024 elections.  He has been under investigation for the last five years and was a key name in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.  After all of this, the Justice Department charged Hunter Biden with two misdemeanor… Continue reading June 21, 2023

I read several articles this morning and realized, sadly, there is a common theme running through them all even though on the surface they seem somewhat disparate subjects.  The first has to do with the first-of-its-kind lawsuit to go to trial in which a group of Montana students sued the state government over its policies… Continue reading June 20, 2023

One of the headlines in this morning’s paper stated that 6 people had been killed and multiple people had been injured in a spate of shootings over the weekend.  There is no other civilized country on the planet that is subject to this kind of random gun violence.  I thought about writing about that but… Continue reading June 19, 2023

There were a couple of interesting articles in the paper this morning.  One concerned a lawsuit mounted by some educational organizations and teachers here in Montana against a law signed by our governor regarding charter schools.  The other article concerned the budget deal that Speaker McCarthy negotiated with the White House regarding the debt ceiling… Continue reading June 18, 2023

The largest bloc of conservative Republicans in the House proposed a budget framework that includes raising the retirement age to 69 from the current 67 and “the document also proposes a “premium support” plan that would subsidize private insurance options that compete with traditional Medicare. That would be similar to budget plans proposed by Rep.… Continue reading June 16, 2023

I couldn’t come up with anything original this morning to post (not to mention that I need to get to work on the yard now that the rain has stopped!) but I did come across this article about ‘Grievance politics’ written by Bill Schneider for ‘The Hill’ that I thought I would share.  It was… Continue reading June 15, 2023

The Montana Republican Party recently met in Missoula (one of essentially two ‘blue’ areas in Montana – the other being Bozeman) to elect party officials and gear up for the 2024 elections.  The Republicans basically swept all state-wide offices in the last election and are now targeting Jon Tester, the Democratic senator, from Montana who… Continue reading June 14, 2023