Stockman’s Corner

Not Out Of The Woods

Apparently, the Donald will be spared the ignominy of spending his remaining days in one of Uncle Sam’s hospitality suites, which surely would have been the eventual consequence of his removal from office and the Democrat vendettas which would have followed hard thereupon.

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Suspension Of Disbelief

While perusing through Facebook’s quarterly results last night we were suddenly struck with inconsolable loneliness. That occurred when we noted the company reported 248 million monthly active users (MAU) in the US and Canada and we are not one of them!

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Impeachment Will Do Nothing To Halt The Deep Decay Of The American Republic

Impeaching Donald Trump would do nothing to halt the deep decay that has beset the American republic. It would not magically restore democratic institutions. It would not return us to the rule of law. It would not curb the predatory appetites of the big banks, the war industry and corporations. It would not get corporate

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“Beyond Vietnam”: Martin Luther King’s Great Antiwar Oration At New York Riverside Church, April 1967

……So they go, primarily women and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from American firepower

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The Donald’s Gosplan For Trade—A Mercantilist Abomination By Another Other Name, Part 2

As we indicated in Part 1, the Donald’s $200 billion trade plan was not fashioned by serious people who understand the blooming, buzzing, churning, throbbing matrix which is the $85 trillion global economy, the $20 trillion of two-way trade worldwide, or the $4.6 trillion of China’s two-way trade (exports plus imports) or even America’s $4.3

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