This blog site has been operative for 17 years.  Over the years, I've averaged 500 readers/day.  For some reason, my blog yesterday,  MARCH MADNESS, 15 CRAIGSIDE, BROADWAY and LUCY,  drew more than 6,000 people.  I don't know why, for this was just a hodgepodge of assorted and minor things on my mind. Today, however, I focus on the most dangerous person on Planet Earth, President Donald Trump.  Contrary to the views of many, The Donald is not insane or mad.  And yes, there is a difference.  Insane connotes a severe mental illness, while mad leans in the direction of just being angry or upset.   I've been articulating on this matter for a long time, and Ross Rosenfeld of the  New Republic  disagrees with me, and says it well. There Is No Method to Trump's Madness.  He's Simply Insane .  Some tidbits. “They say an old man is twice a child,” Rosencrantz   remarks   in Shakespeare’s   Hamlet,   as he a...

  Anyone know anything about President James Polk? In 1795 was born in a log cabin in Mecklenburg, North Carolina?  Remember Mecklenburg?   Badly damaged by Hurricane Helene last year . Became a lawyer at the age of 23.  Sure sounds like Abraham Lincoln. Was an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat.  The Whigs were the competing party. Served seven terms in the U.S. House, two as Speaker, and also governor of Tennessee. Was elected the 11th President of the U.S. His presidency led to the most expansionist period in our history, linking the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was not easy. Was a workaholic and had no time for golf. His main goal was to fulfill  America's  Manifest Destiny , which was to spread from  sea to shining sea . We had a war with Mexico. Texas became the 28th State. Instead of war with Great Britain, he used negotiations to annex a good part of the Oregon Territory.   Lowered tariffs and established the Federal Treasury. During...

I was just about to post my blog today when I saw that a shooter using an automatic weapon  shot at Donald Trump  during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  He was extremely lucky, as a bullet just grazed his ear, while a person in the audience behind him was killed and another seriously wounded.  The assassin was killed.   Watch this video . I haven't seen any official report, but witnesses mentioned at least seven shots that sounded like firecrackers.  Trump is fine and was walked off the stage by secret service agents into a van to take him to a nearby hospital. President Joe Biden  tried to talk to Trump and had an announcement that condemned the shooting. Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield 1881, William McKinley 1901 and John F. Kennedy 1963.   There are  always threats to U.S. presidents , so protection is crucial.   Barack Obama  and  Joe Biden  were well protected.  Trump is only a former president...

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declared that Donald Trump does have immunity for official acts!!!    In other words, they took the guardrails off his power if he becomes the next president.  When you add to this monumental judgement the awful performance of Joe Biden at the presidential debate last week, and you know what Trump will do if he gets re-elected, one can only wonder if this is just the beginning of the end of Democracy in the United States. That above paragraph is, actually, an exaggeration of the reality.  Trump and the MAGA movement, of course, are ecstatic and now emboldened by SCOTUS's action.  However, here is what actually happened: The vote could have gone 5-4 against Trump, because there are the three liberal female associate justices and five conservatives.  However, Amy Barrett was only barely in the winner's side corner, and Chief Justice John Roberts, while also siding with the majority, had some cautionary words. The ruling onl...