Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: Current Affairs

  • Big Historiographical Thought for the Day

    1/29/2025 There is an argument made that it was the temperance movement, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition), that ended the Progressive Movement, the wave of reform that…


  • Existential Question of the Day:

    1/28/2025 Does what is happening in Washington, DC at the moment more closely resemble: a) A new administration settling into office and attempting to implement its agenda? b) The leaders…


  • Separation of Powers?

    4/6/2024 Political Science Thought for the Day:  I have been reading (in John Dickerson’s  _The Hardest Job in the World_ most recently, and  in many other places over the years)…


  • Too F*cking Late

    2/35/2025 Some people are excited that long-serving former Republican Majority and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and so seemed to show some…


  • Birthright Citizenship

    1/23/2025 There seems to be a widespread belief that the courts will stop Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. No matter what the lower…


  • Still Valid after Twelve Years

    12/14/2012 After Sandy Hook What is worse, if anything could possibly be worse than the shootings, is that we already know so much of the story.  The shooter is almost…


  • Poll of the Week

    11/26/2023 Poll of the Week, What Group of Nuts has Done the Most Damage to the United States:   a)  Free Market Nuts, who believe that capitalism is the answer…


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