It has been little more than a month since the last Bulletin, but our President has been far from idle in generating New Lows. There… Read More »Trump New Lows Tracker. Bulletin No. 6 (Updates and Nos. 18-22)
Readers will not have lacked for analyses and comments on President Trump’s State of the Union Message. Nevertheless, some brief thoughts from this corner may… Read More »Blog No. 207. The SOTU: A Rhetorical Mess with Conspicuous Omissions
Coming on Tuesday and Thursday nights of last week, President Obama’s State of the Union message and the sixth Republican debate combined to make a depressing package of television viewing. For those of us in the Pacific time zone, the best that might have been said was that we did not have to stay up late to watch and that neither event interfered with regular prime time programming. Given the extensive coverage of them, we will limit our comments to a few observations.Read More »Blog No. 90. Obama’s SOTU and the Sixth Republican Debate