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Agriculture, Economics, Economy, Federal Government, Trump

Brain Drain Plagues Key USDA Research Service After Trump Administration Orders Relocation

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When the Trump administration relocated the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service to the Kansas City area last year, about two-thirds of its employees quit their jobs rather than move. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, called the mass resignations a “wonderful way to streamline the government.” These departures have…

Depravity, Ethics, Never Trump, Trump

He Already Has

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It is difficult for reasonable and civilized people to understand the persistent of corruption and disorder in a man like Trump. The rational man or woman – guided by intellect and tradition – assumes that someone of Trump’s ilk is only in the grip of an ephemeral disorder, a passing derangement. Surely, they think, Trump…

Bigotry, Culture, Trump

Acculturation – or its Absence – Begins at the Top

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There’s a story in the Washington Post about a school meeting in Saline, Michigan entitled ‘Then why didn’t you stay in Mexico?’: A Latino dad was interrupted by a white man at meeting about racism in schools. The meeting was meant to address racism in schools, but it did not go smoothly: On Monday, he [Adrian…

Congress, Trump

More, and More Again

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So what should Democrats do now that impeachment is over? I argue in @PostOpinions today that they should step on the gas and keep investigating the Trump admin as aggressively as they did in the Ukraine scandal. On every front. https://t.co/oCK8M9Vxyr — Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) February 4, 2020              

America, Resistance, Trump

Times of Resolution & Defiance

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Churchill proposed a ‘moral of the work’ for his series The Second World War: In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill. Our times are not Churchill’s times, yet the moral of his work is suitable for us. It’s suitable for us, however, in a partial and unfinished way – we…

Impeachment Trial, Trump

From Closing Arguments in the Impeachment Trial

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.@RepJeffries: "Doing the right thing and being constant to our principles requires a love of moral courage that is difficult, but by no means impossible," as shown by the many public servants who spoke up against Trump's corrupt abuses of power. pic.twitter.com/oPqByNj1xE — The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) February 3, 2020          …

Congress, Trump

Suggestion for a Next Step

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I have a suggestion for @RepAdamSchiff: Within five minutes of the Senate acquittal vote, in his capacity as House Intelligence Committee Chairman, he should (a) notice a hearing scheduled for next week and (b) present @AmbJohnBolton with a subpoena to testify at it. — Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) January 31, 2020        

America, Bad Ideas, Government Spending, Trump

$1,000,000,000,000.00

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One reads that U.S. deficit to eclipse $1 trillion in 2020, CBO says, as fiscal imbalance continues to widen: The U.S. government’s budget deficit is projected to reach $1.02 trillion in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, as the federal government continues to spend much more than it collects…

Foreign Affairs, Impeachment, Impeachment Trial, Trump

‘What John Bolton Knows’

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From the New York Times, The Daily podcast discusses ‘What John Bolton Knows’: A firsthand account by John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, directly linked President Trump to a quid pro quo in the Ukraine affair, undercutting a central plank of the defense’s argument. What could that mean for the final phase of…