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John Koch, “The Reader” 1935

Category: Donald Trump

  • The President stuck his foot in it

    Next time, pick a villain who is unlikeable. Donald Trump once said he could shoot some guy on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support. Rob Reiner is not that guy. A disciplined politician vilifies the right villains. Donald Trump picked someone even Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post calls “beloved.” We do not share the…

  • Inexcusable

    Shut up, Mr. President! We can argue policy — and we should, this being America on the eve of its 250th founding, when we commemorate the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Franklin. Very disputatious people, those Founders, but they sought “decent respect to the opinions of mankind.” More impactful than any tariff, more consequential…

  • ‘Quiet, piggy’

    We threw the replay challenge flag. We can debate whether his critics suffer more from Trump Derangement Syndrome or his defenders.  Blaska Policy Werkes applauds excellent public policy whatever the source. Securing the border, returning manufacturing to these shores, rooting out DEI pecksniffery, bombing Iran, fighting J.B. Pritzker — what a highlight reel! We can…

  • Smile when you say that

    helps the tough medicine go down. Smile when you say that, some cowboy tough guy said back when Hopalong Cassidy was making movies. Might have taken the edge off calling the cow puncher at the other end of the saloon a horn-swoggling, lily-livered, yellow-bellied son of a one-eyed prairie dog. Don’t recall it ever being…

  • Learning all the wrong lessons

    in all the wrong places. Let’s not get carried away. Democrats won three Democrat strongholds Tuesday night 11-4-25: New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City. Let the church bells ring! The current Real Clear average of national polling still shows the party 26 percentage points under water — double the unfavorability of Republicans. Thanks to…

  • Left wing laments the East Wing

    Which was (once) attached to the White House. The Dan Quayle Reading Room here at Stately Blaska Manor holds a most wonderful coffee table book, The White House; an illustrated history.” Published in 2003 “in cooperation with the White House Historical Assn.” Many photos, fold-outs, cutaway schematics. Pictures of John-John peering out from under JFK’s…