Questions about America’s Motives and Interests by Mark M. Bello In the early hours of January 2, the United States did something extraordinarily dangerous. Was it in our country’s national interest? Time will tell. A foreign head of state—Nicolás Maduro—was seized, removed from his country, and transported to New York to face criminal charges. Shortly […]
Competence is Still an Option by Mark M. Bello After a year filled with headlines, arguments, and outrage, it’s easy to believe that dysfunction is inevitable — that chaos is just the cost of governing a large, divided country. It isn’t. What Americans experienced in 2025 wasn’t the unavoidable result of hard choices in a […]
Part Two: The Fix By Mark M. Bello The most frustrating thing about 2025 wasn’t just the damage—it was how unnecessary the damage was. None of the problems described in yesterday’s Part One required radical ideology to fix. They required competence, balance, and honesty about tradeoffs. What Better Policy Looks Like (Plain English) Economic Stability […]
How Government Choices in 2025 Hurt Ordinary Americans — and How Easily We Could do Better by Mark M. Bello Bad outcomes don’t fall from the sky. They’re made—carefully, repeatedly, and often predictably—by policy choices. In 2025, Americans didn’t suffer because the government was “too big” or “too weak,” but because the Trump Administration focused […]
by Chris Waldron “Wouldn’t you rather lead a movement of free-thinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?” — J D Vance at TPUSA rally (December 21, 2025) Vance made this wild claim to address the fractured MAGA movement as the keynote speaker at the recent Turning […]
Donald Trump has embarked on his quest to expand the American empire, which he intends to rule. by Rick Comfort Sixteen failed companies, six bankruptcies, 34 felony convictions for fraud; found liable for sexual assault, tore down part of the Whitehouse complex, cancelled foreign AID, added his name to Kennedy Center and other buildings, deported […]
What happened in Kecksburg, PA, that winter night 60 years ago? Inquiring minds still want to know. Here, I’m interviewed by Michelle Wright of WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, who is one of those inquiring minds. By Bob Gatty It was in the early evening of Thursday, December 9, 1965, that the night editor of the Greensburg Pennsylvania […]
Are you a gun advocate or a gun safety advocate? By Mark M. Bello Following recent shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach, I decided to write (again…and again…) about guns. Will school children like these be the next target of some crazed person with a gun? The Republican Party, for a long time, has […]
By Mark M. Bello By now, you have heard the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” tossed around casually by Donald Trump and his defenders. Most recently, our despicable POTUS used the phrase to describe filmmaker Rob Reiner when asked to comment about Reiner’s tragic death. Instead of empathy, compassion, condolences, or simple common decency, Trump called […]
In Yet Another Example Of Trump’s Self Aggrandizement, Workers Complete Adding His Name To The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts In Washington, Dc. Credit Wjla-Tv. By C J Waldron I’ve read the Bible from cover to cover which is why I’m an atheist. If you think Trump’s a great man, you […]
