I Could Be Wrong.

  Trump now has his Big Beautiful Bill . Who talks that way? The only people that come to mind are people like carnival barkers and con men trying to sell us snake oil. Is this what the Republican Party has become? A bunch of Snake Oil Salesmen? One thing I am sure of is that Snake Oil Salesmen were more interested in making a sale and turning a profit than they were in selling you something that would actually help you.   That is how I look at the Republican Party and Trump's Big Beautiful Bill . I looked at what is being said about the bill, and the first thing that jumped out at me is the 5 trillion tax cuts. Spending cuts are intended to mitigate some of the debt these tax cuts will cause, but the cuts will still add approximately $3.6 trillion to the National debt, which is already at $36 trillion. Who benefits from these cuts? A whole lot of rich people will. There is a provision where overtime will not be taxed, and neither will tips, but those are temporary cuts that...

  It is another Memorial Day weekend; to me, it is a time to honor or at least acknowledge the sacrifices of those who have fought and worked to keep us safe. When I was a boy, I lived right next to Greenridge Memorial Cemetery in Kenosha, WI. Every year, they would have a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial section of the Cemetery. It would start with the Colored Guard, the Rambler Band marching down 7 th Ave., followed by dignitaries entering the cemetery through the main gate, taking a left, and marching to the Veterans area. Every year, my friend Jim and I would ride are bikes along with them, feeling like we were participating in the ceremony. We knew the day was more than just a day off from school and backyard barbeques. It was a day of remembrance for the people who sacrificed not only for the nation, but also because I was there participating in the ceremony, I always had the idea that they sacrificed it all for me, for my freedom.   The City of Kenosha used to have ...

  I was saddened to read that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. I have known several people who have had Prostate Cancer and, years later, are alive and kicking, still enjoying a fruitful life. What saddened me more was the conspiracy theorists coming out of the woodwork, claiming Biden was not competent and an investigation was needed to determine why he remained in office. Some have called it one of the biggest cover-ups in the history of our nation. What saddens me most is that even though the Republicans control both Houses and the White House, they have to continue to attack Biden.   Instead of trying to live up to their campaign promises, they attack the man who has retired from public service. He has Prostate cancer, which does not affect the brain.   Throughout his presidency, Biden has been very honest with the nation, which is something that Trump may say, but that wouldn’t be the truth. History will judge Biden just like it will judge Trump. Th...

  America, wake up! That’s right. Open your eyes and put in your hearing aids and wake the hell up. I don’t care if you call yourself a liberal or a conservative. I don’t care if you call yourself a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or even a Communist. You can label yourself with all these things because of one document, which is under attack. It is under attack by the very people who have sworn to uphold and protect that document. That document is the Constitution of the United States of America. There are people in every branch of the Government who have forsaken their oath of office and have turned their backs on the very document that defines what this country is about. When our Constitution was written, it was not written with political parties in mind. It was written as a document “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, all the people. That line today seems to sound a little corny now, but that is the problem; it shouldn’t sound corny at all. It is a document th...

  Corruption and incompetence continue to exist. I don’t know about you, but this is exactly what I thought the results of another Trump presidency would look like. I didn’t expect him to get a 400-million-dollar plane that will look like a brothel from the chief financiers of Hamas, but I did know it would always be about Trump first and America last. Whether it is about his crypto scheme or his wanting to turn Gaza into a resort, it is all about Trump and never about America.   Trump has now paused his 145 percent tariffs against China and has left just a 30 percent tariff in place. It is, of course, being spun as some sort of victory by Trump that we all should thank him for. I will ask this question: Is there ever a winner in a trade war? Negotiations need to be a win-win for everyone. The Republicans can paint this like a win if they want to, but through this whole process, it is the United States that has failed to look like anything but a bully on the world stage. ...

  Almost every day on ROKU TV, I see this commercial with our Homeland Security Secretary Kristie Noem. She starts by thanking President Trump for securing our borders. I am going to be totally honest with you. I don’t think Trump has done anything to secure our borders. We may have fewer poor immigrants trying to reach the promised land that the United States once was, but, as I have written before, none of these individuals could be remotely considered a terrorist. If you remember, not a single person who participated in the 9/11 attacks snuck across the border. They all entered the country legally. If a terrorist wanted to sneak into the country, I sure wouldn’t do it sneaking across the Mexican/United States border, one of the mostly watched borders in the Northern Hemisphere.   It is not people looking for work that are a threat to our country, it is the people that are pissed at our country that I fear. Building a wall or deporting people who came here for hope isn’t wha...

  Trump is mad at the press again. I know Trump is always mad at the press, and this time it is for writing about him tanking in the polls. Trump's poll rating is just 39 percent after the first 100 days. That is the lowest rating after the first 100 days in my lifetime, and I have seen 14 different administrations in my lifetime.     I started with Eisenhower, the 34 th president, and now to Trump at 47. Trump's reaction to these polls is very predictable, he is calling for an investigation into these polls, claiming “voter fraud”. On Truth Social, he wrote. “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win the elections big. Much bigger than their polls showed, I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.” Trump also wrote. “Great pollster John McLaughlin, one of the most highly respected in the industry, has just stated that the failing New York Times poll, and the ABC/...

  When will the nation get tired of Trump always lying to them? I am not saying that Trump is just wrong sometimes because there is a huge difference between being wrong and lying. Trump claimed the price of eggs had gone down 94 percent since he took office. When Trump took office, eggs were almost 5 dollars a dozen. If eggs were down 94 percent, that would convert to under 40 cents per dozen. He had also claimed the price of groceries had come down when, in fact, in March, they had risen at a rate that we haven’t seen since 2022, and the tariffs had not kicked in yet. Last Thursday, Trump claimed gas hit under $2.00 a gallon in a couple of states. No state has an average below $2.70 a gallon. What I will never understand is why he says things that are so easily proven false. Is it that he thinks the American people are so stupid that we will believe anything he says, or is it that too many Americans hate the same things he does, so they don’t care he lies? Trump says he is curr...

  Trump and social media are dangerous. His Easter message was not what I would call a spiritually inspirational post honoring the sacrifice Jesus was supposed to have made. Here is what he posted. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well-known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our County. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, and an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposely allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Border Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had no idea what he was doing – But to him, and   to the person th...

  Students die in America at a rate that is unprecedented around the rest of the world. To find a country that has more children killed by guns, you would probably have to go to one of those war-torn third-world countries. According to the Brady website, you are 26 times more likely to be shot at in America than in any other high-income country. 327 people are shot in the United States every day, with 117 dying. Every day, 23 minors are shot in the United States. Mass shootings make up most of the gun violence news, but only represent 1 percent of the shootings in the United States. The United States has 121 guns per 100 people, meaning that we have more guns than people. The United States makes up 37 percent of all firearm suicides. Over one million people have been shot in the United States in the last decade. In 2021, the United States had over 48 thousand deaths by guns. In 2022, we had 645 mass shootings alone. 90 percent of all firearms used in crimes are sold by 5 percent of...