Our President uses language in strange and unusual ways. Notably, he often uses the same words or phrases in numerous different Twitter messages. In an ongoing service to readers, WC offers the following updated Trump Lexicon, offering definitions of those word and phrases as an aid to understanding what the President is really saying. …
Vice President Mike Pence likes to brag about living the American Dream, growing up working for his Dad’s gas station empire. Kiel Brothers Oil Co. operated a chain of some 200 gas stations in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. The kids took over when Pop Pence died in 1988. Mike Pence’s older brother, Greg Pence, was…
Stop WC is you’ve heard this story before. The first time it was Dorothy Oremus Lindauer who wanted to buy Alaska’s governorship for her husband, John. She spent $1.7 million on the effort. Of course, John claimed it was his money, which was a lie, which earned him a criminal conviction, a one-year suspended sentence, two…
WC will make another stab at his efforts at diligence, if not journalism, and follow-up on some earlier blog posts. Remember when Golden Valley Electric’s Healy 2 power plant was called the “Clean Coal Project”? In an ongoing affront to the Sunk Cost Fallacy, GVEA has now poured $175 million in rate payer dollars in…
Therese Patricia Okoumou was the woman who climbed up on the skirts of the Statue of Liberty to protest President Trump’s immigration policies. WC think there is a lot to protest and that Ms. Okoumou’s protest was a pretty mild response. She didn’t harm anything or anyone; just sat there peacefully. According to the New York…
Several of WC’s readers have written to ask what a good citizen should do when the government is bad. WC is frankly astonished that anyone would ask him. WC, after all, is a tree-hugging, retired lawyer. But as must be obvious, not shy about his opinions. How bad has Trump gotten? George Will, the closest…
One of the most infuriating aspects of the Trump Administration’s roll-back of federal regulatory powers is the implied assumption that those laws and regulations exist for no reason. That’s dangerous nonsense. Those laws were passed in response to real, serious risks. The major revisions to the Food and Drug Administration laws and regulations in the…
