The Runaway Texas Democrats

by | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized

“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”— Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution When the Texas legislature decided to engage in the reapportionment of congressional districts in...

Trump is Taunting India But is an Emperor Without Clothes

by | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized

The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the Nobel-aspirant American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of a surfeit of fiction. She wrote in her gripping historical novel The Living Reed: A...

Trump Pulls Trigger On India Mega-Tariff: Will It Backfire?

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

President Trump has followed through with his threats to add more tariffs on India after that country refused to stop purchasing Russian oil and petroleum products. Will the effective 50 percent tariff on Indian goods bring the “world’s largest democracy” to its...

Starving Little Children Create Global Outrage

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

When I began to think about what I would write about in this week’s column, my first thought was that I hoped everyone saw the gruesome photographs of the tiny five-month-old girl in Gaza who had starved to death. She had weighed six pounds, six ounces at birth. Five...

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine.  His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in America’s...