Tea and Vitriol

Today, to my great surprise, the United States Supreme Court revived my long weakened faith in our government. Voting 9-0, they overturned Colorado's recently passed law forbidding Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot in the Republican primary for president. Colorado, citing the insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment, claimed that Donald Trump was ineligible because of his "role" in the January 6, 2021 "insurrection." Maine and Illinois followed suit to prevent Trump's name from appearing on their primary ballots as well. The "insurrection clause" was added to the 14th Amendment to prevent Confederates who fought against the North during our Civil War from ever attaining national public office. The Civil War ended nearly 160 years ago. Which goes to show you to what tortured ends the Democrats had to go to keep Trump off of the ballots for this year's presidential election. The Democrats know that Trump will easily beat Sloppy Joe and h

The war in Ukraine has begun. People have already died in this new war. It has been expected for months, yet world leaders have done nothing to seriously dissuade Russia's Putin from going to war. Now that the war has begun in earnest, despite all of the "diplomacy" used to prevent it, world leaders are condemning it. That includes the United Nations, which has long been an expensive, impotent forum for world opinion. And doing nothing. To be sure, world leaders have threatened Putin with economic sanctions against Russia if he went to war. And yes, they did provide Ukraine with wholly inadequate amounts of money and war materiel to be used against the Russian powerhouse should war come. But that is all. Because they are afraid of provoking Putin into a nuclear world war. Putin himself has stated to the world powers scolding him that they had better not interfere with his plans for Ukraine, because there would be "consequences you have never seen." This was espe