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 Why I Didn't Watch The Super Bowl          #374 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary  No, I did not watch the game, nor any of the hype leading up to it. First, I'm not a football fan, so I have no attachment to the sport, and I have not watched it in the past either.  But this year, with all the nastiness about Bad Bunny and the halftime show, I was particularly turned off. In the past I have turned on just the half- time show, like when Sir Paul McCartney was the performer. Or Bono. But who wins, who loses the game, or the halftime show nonsense is irrelevant to me, and frankly, I think much of the country. Sure, fans in New England and Seattle cared. But for the rest of the country the game is just a reason to  invite friends over, drink beer, eat chicken wings and have some fun. Great. No problem. So why bring politics into it?  Because this is the era of Trump, where everything becomes political. I have heard from people who will ro...
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The Decline of the United States                                        #373 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary  We have   now entered the second year of Donald Trump's second term as President of the United States. It feels like he has been hammering away at the American way of life ever since he strolled down that elevator in 2015, almost eleven years ago.  This is not a comprehensive or scholarly analysis of the damage this one man and his close associates have done, but it is a simple look at this weapon of mass destruction know as Trumpism.  Let's start with our  treasured institutions created by the U.S. Constitution, the three branches of government. Trump has damaged the presidency, possibly beyond repair. His use of executive orders has been extensive, 225 in his first year of this term, and 220 in the four years of his first term.  Barak Obama...
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Damage Done                                                 #372 By Hank Silverberg Commentary  In just the last year, the prestige and power of the United States of America has been seriously damaged, and it could take decades to get back our place in the world community -- if that can ever happen again.   And the downfall can be traced to one person's ego.  Here is what has happened since Donald Trump came on the political scene way back in 2015:  Americans, egged on by a con man and a liar, no longer believe anyone in public office, nor the traditional legacy media. They were conned into giving him authority and now they are trapped in a tangled web of his scam.   In his first term Trump hammered away at sound institutions like the CDC and NIH, or the FDA and EPA, spreading doubt about their science and their mission.  T...
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The  Politics   of Fear                                        #371 By Hank Silverberg Commentary Imagine for a minute you are walking down the street on your way to the grocery store or to visit a friend in your own neighborhood.  All of a sudden two non-descript vans pull up beside you. Several men wearing masks and carrying guns, jump out and confront you, asking you to provide I-D to prove you are an American. If you are a White person who speaks without an accent, you are probably not worried about this. If you are a member of a minority or an immigrant, you are probably scared, and that is what they want.  This is how ICE is operating in Minneapolis and other cities across the United States. If you ask them for their I-D or don't produce one of your own, you could be arrested. So could your neighbor across the street who has the audacity to ask what is going on,...
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Venezuelan Chaos                                  #370 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary Venezuela has 28.4 million people. It has the largest untapped oil reserves in the world, which has not been exploited in recent years.     Now, the United States has deposed that country's authoritarian President, Nicolas Maduro, and carried him off to New York City to face a plethora of criminal charges for his role in the international drug smuggling trade. Nobody is really feeling sorry for Maduro. Like Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein and Juan Hernandez, they deserved what they got for sending all that poison or terror to the USA.  (Oh wait, Trump recently pardoned Hernandez. What was that all about?) But it is clear that President Trump once again violated the law when he did not inform Congressional leadership of military action in a foreign country--a move that is  REQUIRED  by ...
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2025 Was a Negative Year                                                                    #369 Commentary Here we are at the end of one of the most tumultuous years in U.S. history. 2025 has been a turning point.  The year has been Trump, Trump and more Trump, but we need to look closer at what has been done to our country while Trump distracted us with smoke, mirrors and insults. First: economics When Donald Trump took office last January 20th, the unemployment rate was just over 4%. In  November it was 4.6%.  The inflation rate for November was 2.7%, exactly the same as it was in November of 2024, and much of this year's inflation was fueled by tariffs.   At the same time, t he nation's debt went up from $33 trillion a year ago to over $38.5 trillion now.   The numbers are not sta...
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