Author Archives: Joe Benning

Assassination Attempt

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Joe Benning

In the wake of an assassination attempt on the life of  ex-President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald J Trump, a virtual army of conspiracy theorists, armchair psychologists and amateur law enforcement wannabes are having a collective field day.  Their chosen … Continue reading →

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Is Winning Really the Only Thing?

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Joe Benning

 “…Of course, for a Democratic Party warning that Mr. Trump is an existential threat to the nation, the race is about something much simpler: winning.” Shane Goldmacher, The New York Times July 6, 2025.  “…the president’s prime-time interview with ABC News … Continue reading →

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Will He Stay or Will He go?

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Joe Benning

Amazingly enough, on the front page of the New York Times, the headline reads Biden Tells Governors He Needs to Sleep More and Work Less at Night. Which is akin to pretending to respond to a query about your worst … Continue reading →

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Now What?

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Joe Benning

The Great Democratic Freakout over President Biden’s debate performance is in full swing. The real question is why. What did party leaders expect? The obvious decline in Mr Biden’s cognitive abilities has been transparently evident for well over a year. … Continue reading →

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Modern v. Classical Liberals

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Joe Benning

“Governments are living things and operate as organic wholes.  Moreover, governments have their natural evolution and are one thing in one age, another in another. The makers of the Constitution constructed the federal government upon a theory of checks and balances … Continue reading →

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Flagged

Posted on May 25, 2024 by Joe Benning

A lot of liberals are up-in-arms (figuratively speaking) about Justice Sam Alito (yet again). They cite 2 related reasons as proximate causes for their angst.  (1) Three years ago, Justice Alito’s wife hung an upside down flag in front of … Continue reading →

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Is Donald J. Trump a Conservative?

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Joe Benning

At the moment former President and current Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump is the defendant in a books-and-records criminal trial in lower Manhattan. Serious people doubt that the books-and-records charges should ever have been brought, much less blown up … Continue reading →

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Are Liberalism and Progressivism Compatible?

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Joe Benning

Robert Frost , the American poet, once observed that “A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel”. Which brings up an interesting question. Can American liberals differentiate their traditional brand of liberalism from … Continue reading →

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Problem Solving 2024 Style

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Joe Benning

If the proverbial Martian were to land on planet earth and peruse the news he would quickly discover that the United States currently has several severe, possibly existential problems with which it has to deal.  According to the news, the … Continue reading →

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Presidential Immunity? No Thanks.

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Joe Benning

Q: Where in the Constitution is any form of immunity specified.    A: Nowhere So how is it that the Supreme Court is embroiled in a case in which apparently serious people argue that former President Trump is immunized against … Continue reading →

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