On Monday, ExxonMobil – the oil-and-gas behemoth that flatulated Rex Tillerson from CEO to running the State Department – released their latest big news. They were going to invest a cool $20 billion to “expand manufacturing in the U.S. Gulf region,” alleging this would create more than 45,000 “high-paying jobs.” Lest we forget, scientific studies […]
Month: March 2017
TRUMP’S TRIPS AND TAXPAYER TOLERANCE: A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
A friend of mine raised the questions in an email: “How much does it cost to fly that huge jet to Florida every weekend? This guy spends too much of your money and my money and for what? How does a citizen demand an accounting for this bullshit travel cost?” So I decided to look […]
WALLED OFF: HOW TRUMP’S PLAN WILL IMPACT ENDANGERED SPECIES
It’s crazy enough on many levels, the executive order Trump has signed ordering construction of that “great, great wall” – all 1,900 concrete miles of it and as high as 55 feet along our border with Mexico. The cost projected by MIT researchers is $40 billion, which Trump has suggested could be raised by putting […]
THE “GOLFER-IN-CHIEF”DRIVES SMACK INTO A WATER HAZARD
Donald Trump’s been tweeting away for some time now. Maybe you don’t recall his “Twitter rant,” as the GlobalGolfPost dubbed it, during the U.S. Open tournament back in June 2014. The Pinehurst 2 course in North Carolina had undergone a renovation, stripped of any rough and leaving nothing along the fairways but sandy areas and […]
TRUMP STOOPS (LOW) TO CONQUER
How low can he go? That’s the question I have to ask after watching Donald Trump exploit in the audience a young woman suffering from a rare disease, families whose loved ones were slain by two illegal immigrants, and the widow of a Navy SEAL who died on a U.S. ground mission into Yemen. I […]