Updates to: Be Careful What You Wish For: More Magical Thinking in the Age of Trump/Gorsuch “Magical Thinking: Supreme Court Justices and the Presidents Who Pick Them” As the Supreme Court prepared to decamp for its summer hiatus, the flock of decisions they issued and the cases they agreed to hear in the Fall pretty […]
Category: Hot Stove Issues
Our Veterans Deserve Better Care than Old Glory
“In honor of Flag Day…bring your worn American flags and drop it into the special receptacle. Thanks to our local Boy Scouts, VFWs, military organizations and American Legions for their help in properly retiring all collected American flags” […]
Two Party Dilemma
What’s up with the US two-party system? Upton Sinclair, political activist, social reformer, and writer had the answer over a hundred years ago— “the two political parties are two wings of the same bird of prey. The people are allowed to choose between their candidates and both of them are controlled, and all their nominations are […]
The Empire Has No Clothes
What some famous and infamous Americans would have put on their twitter feeds if it had been invented. “the truth of the matter is when you look at our actions, as distinct from our loftily expressed self-conceptions, it is difficult to see much difference between our actions in Vietnam and the Russians in Afghanistan” ( […]
Three Branches of Government: Show Me The Money!
“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing, but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, [deviation from the norm] at least in a republican government.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1820 Fist Bumps to Thomas Jefferson for getting it spectacularly right three hundred years ago. It’s unanimous— elites […]
The Main Stream Media Meets the Iron Will of Two Presidents: The Elites and the Rising Tide of the Disenfranchised
In one corner Donald Trump is lacing up the gloves. In the other, FDR. In both cases their opponent is the same — the media. In FDR’s day, the media was mostly newspapers and well-known columnists like Walter Lippmann and Westbrook Pegler. Today Donald Trump faces a similar phalanx of opposition but on a larger […]
My fellow Citizens of Connecticut our long state-wide nightmare is Over
“I am today announcing that I will not seek a third term as Governor…Instead, I will focus all my attention and energy – I will use all of my political capital from now through the end of 2018 – to continue implementing my administration’s vision for a more sustainable and vibrant Connecticut economy.” [Governor Dan […]
“That’s Not Who We Are” (Obama)
Who are we really? To answer that question is the truth-telling mission of SuspiciousAngels— exploring history, (i.e. the Howard Zinn and Walter Karp version), debunking plans and priorities of the elites and illuminating the wisdom of the revolutionary left. Cutting through the noise of the mainstream media to the “facts on the ground,” the answer […]
A Bi-Partisan Meeting of the Minds
Beware the doting father defending his daughter from naysayers. Remember the kerfuffle stirred up a while ago when President Trump took to Twitter to excoriate Nordstrom’s department store for their decision to drop his daughter, Ivanka’s, clothing line. “My daughter has been treated unfairly by Nordstrom’s. She is a great person —always pushing me to […]
Be Careful What You Wish For: More Magical Thinking in the Age of Trump/Gorsuch
Be Careful What You Wish For: More Magical Thinking in the Age of Trump/Gorsuch A word of caution to those zany conservatives, far-right zealots and self-described Alt-Righters. Planning a super-bowl sized celebration over President Trump’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch, to the Supreme Court? Heaving a sigh of relief finally your big moment has come. Traveling too […]
