Category: Government (Page 17 of 34)

Tim Walz is going on tour.

March 14, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 1 Comment

Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts

Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country.

Good for Walz. He may not persuade many people, but it’s always a good idea to get out and talk to the people. Trump and his people are moving fast, and Democrats must feel like they should do something. At least Walz has a constructive plan. His colleagues could learn from him.

Elon Musk is under fire, but he isn’t hiding.

March 11, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 2 Comments

Musk outlines DOGE work in rare TV interview

What is a TV interview? A week ago, Musk talked to Joe Rogan for three hours. On Youtube alone, 12 million people watched. That is more than the total number of people who subscribe to the New York Times. The interview appeared on Spotify and other platforms as well.

Time to give up on DST

March 9, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

This may be the first time in my life that I did not know about changing the clocks for Daylight Savings Time. That is reason enough to abolish the policy.

Britannica: Pros and Cons of Daylight Savings Time

Doge has plenty of work to do.

March 8, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Why Has Joe Biden’s $42 Billion Broadband Program Not Connected One Single Household?

This is maddening, and with luck, much of that money can be redirected. Consider this one program cost each taxpayer in America, about $300.

Subtract the people with the internet on their phones and the people who don’t want the internet, how many are left? Running coax or fiber optic cable to every remote location in America intentionally ignores the existence of Starlink.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk approvingly reposted an X user who claimed that “for $42 billion they could have bought Starlink dishes for 140 million people.”

There are only 130 million households in America.

Democrats are the cringe party.

March 7, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Schadenfreude is taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune. Fremdschämen is a new word I learned which means being embarrassed because someone else did something embarrassing. It’s like second-hand embarrassment.

Democrats may have a good reason for hating little Black kids and girls.

March 6, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

At Trump’s address, the Democrats looked like sullen versions of Cabbage Patch kids. Even during the nonpartisan, poignant parts, the Sour Patch kids wouldn’t applaud, stand up or smile. I wasn’t sure about those segments, so maybe they can explain what message they were sending.

John Fetterman, a Democratic senator who is open about his brain damage, said that his colleagues were, “A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance,”

Texas representative, Al Green, gets kicked out.

March 5, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Watching President Trump’s address to Congress, it started with the usual commotion.

Senate Democrats vote as if they don’t like girls and women.

March 4, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

That was the whole point of Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, so why are we still talking about boys in girls sports? It’s been proven that Wrath of Khan was the best Star Trek movie, so Bill Paxton, in Aliens, put it best.

Zelensky looks like he is going bar-hopping.

March 3, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Designer Behind President Zelensky’s White House Outfit Defends the Choice

Clothing is a choice, and people should be judged by what they wear. By dressing like this for a meeting with Trump, Zelensky has questionable judgement or questionable objectives.

Trump on Baseball

March 2, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Althouse Baseball

He may not be to everyone’s taste, but I think it’s hilarious that we have a president who, on social media, posts:

Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!

How can Trump have an opinion on everything and the time to post?