John T. Reed’s news blog

Somehow, the Democrat primary started with a bunch of women, a gay guy, some blacks, and forced all of them to withdraw leaving two white men in their late 70s and it is our fault for being sexists and racists. . Say what? It was the Democrat primary. The people of color were run out of the primary by the Democrat establishment and the Dem voters. In some primaries, Republicans could vote, but that was not my idea, nor does it seem to have happened enough that it changed any result. . The Democrats, who claim to be so non-sexist,...

Bernie says half of Americans like pay check to pay check. . That’s a damned lie. . 1. Billions of people around the world respond by asking what’s a paycheck? 2. Living pay check to pay check means you have no money at all other than your pay check; no savings, no property to hock or sell. 3. I looked it up. According to the most recent Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve, the median net worth for an American family is $97,300. . The median net worth means the one where half of Americans are above and...

Bernie is campaigning hard in MI. Does that matter? Or is the result pre-ordained by Bernie’s big picture image as a socialist revolutionary and not much of a black favorite and old Joe from Scranton, Penna.’s big picture image as a blue collar Knights of Columbus guy bringing pot luck potato salad to your block party..“C’mon, man” versus “Proletariat of the world, arise.”.Bernie is in the wrong continent in the wrong century.

I got my copy of West Point whistleblower Tim Bakken’s book The Cost of Loyalty. He was a law professor at West Point for 20 years and because of his official whistleblower status is still a law professor there in spite of being in the doghouse with the brass..I just read the preface. He is an excellent writer and I agree with everything he said. I am very hard to please, but he managed not to gave me anything I could quibble with..Two of the things in the preface were facts that I cannot confirm or deny—a computer failure at...

The Dems are singing Happy Days Are Here Again because the stock market is falling and, can they hope, maybe they will get the great political gift of thousands of Americans getting sick and dying from covid 19. . Dems say he did not ask for enough money to fight the virus. . He can ask for more later if it is needed. . And why should the Dem habit of throwing taxpayer money at problems be the rule? It has been said that a crash program is assigning nine men to getting a woman pregnant so that the baby...