A Keen Observer

In my last blog just before the mid-term elections I refrained from giving my opinion on which party would win the House of Representatives and the Senate.  The polls were all over the place, as were the pundits, and I had been humiliated in 2016...

After what happened on Election Night in 2016, it takes a very audacious person to make predictions about the outcome of the election this coming Tuesday. I couldn’t have been more wrong two years ago.  As the totals came in and Donald Trump’s victory became...

INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC In 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.  He had left the Nation of Islam after discovering that its leader, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered a large number of children out-of-wedlock.  Muhammad was somewhat jealous over Malcolm’s charisma, and their relationship became...

  In the last half of the 19th century people of the working class in Europe were beginning to show interest in the ideas of socialism. Some members of the intelligentsia, particularly the Catholic intelligentsia, decided to formulate an alternative to socialism which would emphasize...

  Carlo Baldino                          October 17, 2018 A friend of mine is amused at my contempt for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and he jokes that I’m irrational.  He may be right. With that in mind I was watching “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Sunday morning...

It occurred to me recently that the best way to deal with the prolific lies and attacks on the press by the President of the United States is to refrain from using his name. His supporters, who are convinced that the mainstream media is “the...

In his press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin last Monday in Helsinki, Finland, Donald Trump gave Democrats a golden opportunity to obstruct his march to re-election as well as ensure their takeover of the House of Representatives in this November’s election. Trump threw the...

I had a friend who was positively brilliant. He had a Ph.d in theoretical physics, but he wasn’t a science nerd. He was an avid reader of literature and history, and he was a skilled writer. Unfortunately he was also one of the unhealthiest people...

Five years ago on a trip to Scotland my wife and I made a late afternoon check-in at a small hotel in the Highlands.  Out on the lawn we saw couple with whom we had a great deal in common.  He was a white Englishman...

Recently I came upon some new information about Thomas Jefferson and his Black slave mistress, Sally Hemmings. I knew he had fathered children with her at a time when Blacks were considered 3/5 of a human being, and that Jefferson was subjected to a lot...