Monthly Archives: December 2025

Trump installs critical plaques about Biden, Obama in White House | Fox News

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Daniel Little

More infantile, churlish, and undignified Trump behavior. For Fox News to call these plaques "critical" is absurd … call them schoolyard name-calling by a narcissistic bully. Caligula once again. History will not forgive this man. Trump installs critical plaques about … Continue reading →

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Our Caligula president (Dan Little)

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Daniel Little

Donald Trump’s actions often defy historical analogies. Recurring themes that have no precedent in US history include his transparent goal of imposing his unilateral will on our country, crushing and humiliating his perceived enemies, and defying the rule of law … Continue reading →

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Coin sets and white male supremacy (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 14, 2025 by gdkrenz

If you would like evidence that the ultimate goal of the Trump Administration and MAGA leadership is a white-male-supremacist society, look no further than the Treasury Department’s release of designs for the US Mint coin set commemorating the nation’s 250th … Continue reading →

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Higher education in the age of Garfield (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 8, 2025 by gdkrenz

Here is a parochial footnote to my post on “Death By Lightning.” As I said in that post, Garfield was intent on ending the spoils system and professionalizing the civil service. This was in line with a dramatic increase in … Continue reading →

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Our American Heritage (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 7, 2025 by gdkrenz

Barb and I just finished watching the mini-series about the assassination of President James Garfield, Death by Lightning. It’s on Netflix, and if you are able to watch it, I highly recommend it. There is much to say about it and … Continue reading →

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Phil Klay’s moral analysis of the boat strikes (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 6, 2025 by gdkrenz

There was an outstanding op-ed in the NYT yesterday by Phil Klay, “What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes.” It is a thoughtful moral analysis of a sort that we too-seldom see in the press. Klay speaks of … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Oceania, ca. 1984 (Gary Krenz)

Posted on December 5, 2025 by gdkrenz

The so-called “double-tap” – a terribly sanitizing word – attack on two stranded Venezuelans in the Caribbean continues to be front and center in the news, and now some members of Congress have had access to video of the attack. … Continue reading →

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Trump’s unhinged racist attack on Somalis … (Dan Little)

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Daniel Little

The president of the United States has completely lost control of his inner racist rage … his words about "Somalis as garbage" are so fundamentally disgraceful that all citizens must wonder about his mental state. If a CEO of a … Continue reading →

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A young Kansas Republican in the infamous chat group

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Daniel Little

Here is some background on one of the participants in the racist chat group of young Republican leaders revealed in October… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/william-hendrix-kansas-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.GuY0.fzt_Z36-1KVF&smid=url-share

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Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat (Dan Little)