Hendrix's Eccentric Commentary

Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs

Category: Politics

  • Big Political Reappraisal of the Day

    1/30/2025 Joe Biden has faced much criticism for the preemptive pardons he issued in his final days in office to family and other people threatened by Donald Trump. The first…


  • 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…


  • Big Political Philosophical Thought of the Day:

    11/20/2024 Liberals and Democrats are trapped in the world of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau;  Trump and Republicans are running wild in the world of Thomas Hobbes and Friedrich Nietzsche.


  • Traitors

    11/18/2024 (I sent this into the  _New York Times_, of course they didn’t print it — too bitter.  I believe what I said, however.) As we come up on two…


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