Today’s Big 3: Healthcare, Foreign Policy, and Executive Power

I want to highlight three areas that are attracting a lot of attention today.  First off is our nation’s health care system.  Obamacare was a curse from the day it became law and there are no good ways to get out from underneath it…but that must occur.  It is up to the Republicans to stop bickering and come up with an alternative.  They have known this for years and they can no longer hide from it.  Secondly…the geo-political landscape is evolving at warp speed and America has no choice but to make the commitment to global political, economic, and military superiority….whatever the costs.  The very future of our nation and freedom across the plant is at stake.  Finally, the Supreme Court is weighing a decision that will have a seismic effect on the power of the Executive Branch.  Our Constitution set forth a plan featuring a balance of power between three branches of government…that balance is in question.  Will the SCOTUS move to clarify that balance?

 

Obamacare (ACA/Affordable Care Act) became law on March 23, 2010.  It passed Congress with no Republican votes and was signed by President Obama.  It was intended to expand coverage, control costs, and improve care; famously promoted thusly… “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”  President Obama stated that Obamacare would reduce health insurance premiums for the typical family by up to $2,500 per year by the end of his first term.  Fact: Obamacare was one of, if not the, worst government programs ever conceived.

 

It forced people to over-insure.  It forced people to pay for coverage they did not want or need.  It irresponsibly shoveled tax dollars to millions of insured people, many of whom were well above the poverty line, in the form of subsidies.  It inserted incompetent government management into an industry which had become a model for the free world due to its free market operation.  It was ill-conceived as a legislative package that, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, had to be passed in order to discover its contents.  It is currently transferring billions of dollars to the insurance companies from the pockets of tax-paying citizens.  It is an abject failure and has become a poster child for government boondoggles. 

 

For 15 plus years, Republicans have sought to slay this Obamacare beast.  They have had multiple opportunities to do so, and have failed.  Once again, they are now presented with Republican control of Congress and the White House.  For 15 years, they have known with certainty that at some point(s) in time, this moment would arrive.  Yet they now stand before us with nothing but complaints about Obamacare and non-agreement about its replacement.  You cannot beat something with nothing.  Obamacare is a very low bar to clear; but if the Republicans continue to bicker and squabble about seeking the perfect health care legislation, they will rightly be blamed for failing to rid America of the Obamacare albatross and providing a workable alternative.

 

The Democrat position of continuing Obamacare in its current state with no changes is lunacy.  They bitch and moan about the high cost and inequities that exist in our healthcare system while insisting on the continuation of their program that created that reality.  Democrats have their heads up their collective ass and Republicans simply can’t get their act together to pass legislation.  The future for healthcare in America is, at best, very cloudy.  It has become a political football that both national parties enjoy tossing about.

 

https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/obamacare-has-doubled-the-cost-individual-health-insurance

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/12/shutdown-2026.php

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/senate-democrats-healthcare/2025/12/11/id/1237947/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/republican-house-health-care-plan-obamacare-subsidies/2025/12/12/id/1238140/

 

Our planet is quite simply a multi-layered onion type object with myriad nations, governments, peoples, and multi-dimensional dynamics that boggles the minds of its various managers.  Like it or not, America stands in the singular position of leading the world by thought, action, and deed.  When America chooses not to assume and exercise this leadership role, chaos ensues as other geo-political entities vie to fill that vacuum.  

 

America cannot be isolationistic…because our nation cannot realistically seal itself off from the rest of the planet.  America cannot be the world’s police force, because we are not that wise nor powerful.  Somewhere in between these two extremes, our country must exercise its awesome power and authority in an effort to move this world in a positive direction while respecting the autonomy of other nations…many of whom we have serious disagreements with. 

 

American foreign policy is truly a prismatic challenge that changes in its concept from president to president and decade to decade.  Some change is inevitable due to the simple evolution of places and things.  Some changes occur due to the differing philosophies of America’s leaders.  Some changes are dictated by the actions of other nations.  But all these changes aside, the one unchanging principle that remains is that America must assume its leadership role in geo-political affairs in order for our planet to function with some degree of civility and co-existence. 

 

Donald Trump has indelibly placed his marker on America’s current foreign policy.  Aside from his aggressive and emphatic actions as President in foreign policy, he has put forth his philosophy in writing.  Here is that plan and several comments about that plan.  Imperfect as he and the plan are, I have consistently supported his foreign policy approach overall and continue to do so.  President Trump clearly understands the power he holds, the role America serves, and the necessity to perform that function.  He may be accused of taking unwise actions, but he cannot be accused of shirking his responsibility as the world’s most powerful leader.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/trumps-national-security-strategy-document-is-a-curious-one/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/12/trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-gives-moral-clarity/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/a-house-divided/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/as-europe-steps-back-asia-steps-up/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nato-rutte-russia/2025/12/11/id/1237911/

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/11/cry-the-beloved-europe/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/07/the-right-questions-about-americas-strikes-on-venezuelan-narco-boats/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/security/democrats-once-called-out-links-between-drug-trafficking-and-terrorism-trumps

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/coast-guard-navy-trump/2025/12/10/id/1237821/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/an-overdue-effort-to-disrupt-global-oil-smuggling-networks/

 

The Judicial Branch of our constitutional government is being sorely tested as never before.  The irresponsible actions of rogue federal judges who appear to be answerable to no one have seeded chaos throughout our legal system and government’s function.   Congress has the ability to exert a limited amount of regulation on the legal system, but their partisan paralysis has pretty much eliminated that prospect.  The sole remaining entity that is capable of restoring some order and reason to the Judicial Branch is the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).  The SCOTUS has seriously engaged in this process over the last year or so and all indications are that this concerted effort will continue at a high level in the near future. 

 

Considering all of the lunacy and gravity that exists in the current Legislative and Executive Branches of our government, there is little doubt that the arbiter between these two quarreling pillars of democracy is, and will continue to be, the SCOTUS. 

 

https://americanmind.org/features/legal-conservatism-for-our-time/shock-therapy-for-our-lawless-legal-system/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/12/09/humphreys-estate-and-jacksons-experts-supreme-court-justice-offers-surprising-view-of-the-separation-of-powers/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/media-pout-that-scotus-could-put-the-kibosh-on-bureaucratic-sabotage-of-gop-presidents/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/09/justice-gorsuch-exposes-attorneys-illogical-defense-of-unchecked-bureaucracy/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/red-state-district-court-vacancies-with-no-nominees/

 

Here are some more quick hits on the world around us….

 

Do tariffs work or not?  I think for most folks…the jury is still out…

 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/11/trade-deficit-lowest-5-years-thanks-trumps-tariffs-media

 

Our Energy Sector is one of the primary driving forces in the economy.  Trump is moving in the right direction with his policies for this sector…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/10/the-hyperventilating-over-the-doe-restructuring-is-ongoing/

 

https://freebeacon.com/energy/exclusive-trump-doe-to-finance-up-to-10-nuclear-projects-in-bid-to-kickstart-nuclear-power-renaissance/

 

While national immigration reform begs for Congressional attention, the issue of reconciling Biden’s illegal immigrant invasion continues…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/09/ending-illegal-and-mass-immigration-is-trumps-signature-issue/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/08/immigration-gone-wild/

 

We forget…immigration is not just a concern in America…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/12/civilization-erasure-christmas-markets-and-hungary/

 

As we approach the 2026 mid-term elections, it behooves all of us to pay attention to how Democrats govern when they are in control…

 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/08/gov-pritzkers-illinois-has-released-nearly-1800-criminal

 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/10/illinois-gov-pritzker-violated-supremacy-clause

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/pritzker-signs-law-welcoming-state-sanctioned-suicide-to-illinois/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/whats-the-matter-with-seattle/

 

Democrat and Republican presidents have both severely abused their power to pardon.  At a minimum, this pardon authority should be transparent, reviewed, justified by stated guidelines, and taken off the table for the last six months of a presidential term…

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/rein-in-the-presidential-pardon-power/

 

I am a Boomer and continue to be totally fascinated by the generational dynamics that surround our daily lives…

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-is-total-boomer-luxury-communism/

 

IMHO…Ken Burns is a master storyteller, a gifted producer of media productions, and a pioneer in his attention to significant historical events regarding our nation.  However, like all things media, we should always take what we consume from the entertainment community with a large dose of salt…

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/ken-burns-gives-america-the-wrong-parents/

 

 

The Art of Gerrymandering: Too Cute by Half and Representation within Reason…Plus FWIW

On the heels of the special House election in Tennessee, I want to take a closer look at the process of gerrymandering.  Quite simply, political gerrymandering is the territorial redefining of congressional districts in such a way as to create more favorable outcomes for one political party…that being the one doing the redefining.  History tells us that both political parties have been practicing this effort for decades upon decades.  But history will also tell us that the Democrats have been both more aggressive in this area and much more efficient in their efforts.  The recent redistricting actions in Texas (now upheld by SCOTUS) have somehow supercharged the subject of gerrymandering and have created a new-found enthusiasm in both major political parties to somehow max out their national gerrymandering opportunities.  It’s almost like sitting down two kids, each with a coloring book and a full box of crayons…then seeing who can finish their book first.  While this can be done both legally and ethically…it can also be infused with overzealous ambition and corruption.

 

If we can establish a point of origin…a ground zero if you will…for congressional districts, then the intent of gerrymandering is for a political party to change the congressional district boundaries so that their prospects of winning the majority (if not all) of the statewide congressional races are maximized.  This entails siphoning off voter advantages/disadvantages from one district and shifting a portion of that strength/weakness to an adjoining district(s), all in an effort to improve the chances of winning both/all districts.  Put simply…It is maximizing one party’s voter status while minimizing the other party’s voter status, on a district-by-district basis, within a whole-state concept.  This is precisely what we witnessed in the outcome of the Tennessee special election.

 

Congressional District 7 in Tennessee is composed of 14 counties.  11 of those counties are rural in nature and clearly lean Republican red.  1 of those counties is dominated by a large portion of Nashville and clearly leans Democrat blue.  The remaining 2 counties contain sizeable cities (Clarksville and Franklin), and although they are both Republican red, the urban influence of these two cities tend to push them towards a potentially purple status.  These two counties are ripe targets for the Democrats in future elections.  

 

The current definition of District 7 was established in February of 2022…first taking effect in the elections of November/2022.  This redrawing of District 7 was a clear effort by Republicans in the Tennessee state government to dilute the urban Democrat influence of Nashville in District 7 by splitting the city into three parts…those parts going to Districts 5, 6, and 7. 

 

In the judgment of the Republicans, they were leaving sufficient Republican strength in District 7 to insure their future election success there.  The portions of the Democrat votes in Nashville transferred to adjoining districts (5 and 6) were intended to split up that urban influence; thus strengthening Republican chances in District 7.  Based on the outcome of this recent special election, they made the right call.  Van Epps won 13 of the 14 counties in District 7, while Behn won Davidson County (Nashville’s county) by better than 3-to-1.  But even 3-to-1 was insufficient to win the race. 

 

The Republican candidate Van Epps garnered 96,988 votes while his Democrat opponent Behn received 81,094.  This was a winning margin of 15,894 votes in a total universe of 178,082 votes; a victory percentage of about 54 percent to 46 percent (numbers per Tennessee Secretary of State website).  The mainstream media is making a lot of noise about how close this race was, compared to the fact that Donald Trump carried this district by over 20 percentage points in his re-election.  That is nothing more than spinning.  An “8 percentage point win” in an off-year, special election…held in December no less…is not close.  What the margin of victory in this race tells us is that gerrymandering can actually work sometimes.  In this instance, the Tennessee Republicans maintained sufficient red strength and diminished the Nashville blue effect in District 7, while attempting to improve their voter status advantages in Districts 5 and 6.  The results of that attempt are yet to be determined.

 

I have no issue with gerrymandering within reason.  As populations shift over time, it is perfectly acceptable that district lines should be redrawn to reflect those shifts.  As long as county lines are observed in rural areas and reasonable lines are observed in urban areas, I view the process as the fruits of victory for whichever party is redrawing the lines.  But there ought to be guardrails in place.  Outside of extraordinary circumstances, redistricting should be limited to one time between national census counts (which occur every 10 years at the beginning of the new decade).  It strikes me as reasonable that there should be a window within which this redistricting can take place; for instance, during years 3 through 8 of the decade.  Splitting of rural counties should be avoided and splitting of urban areas should reflect some type of reasonable logic.

 

This appears to be what transpired in the Tennessee redistricting effort.  Based on the recent SCOTUS decision, the Texas redistricting effort also passes the reasonable test.  However, when we take a closer look at some of the other redistricting efforts taking place across our country…by both parties…we do not see the same type of respect for common sense and reason.  Some of the newly drawn districts in selected states resemble the old image of modern art…where the artist simply slings a brush-full of paint upon a blank canvas and calls it a masterpiece.  A variation of this method sometimes entails the artist simply throwing the paint on the canvas and then wallowing in it or spreading it around willy nilly with their hands…or other various body parts.

 

This is the type of gerrymandering that goes beyond the pale, compromises the fundamental premise of democratic congressional representation, and demonstrates a clear abuse of power and authority.  When congressional districts look more like a salamander than they do a coherent group of counties, we can be pretty certain that something is corrupt in the process.  Voters elect their leaders and the winning party justifiably gains control of the subsequent legislative process.  This is our democratic template and it works quite well when elections are honest, transparent, and we elect people of good character.  Well….so much for that notion.  That trifecta of honest, transparent, and good character is a high bar to clear these days and…unfortunately…is rarely achieved.

 

When the party in control redraws congressional districts, they are sometimes too cute by half; they trim their advantage down too much in one district and end up losing there in a close election due to a poor candidate, an extraordinarily good opposing candidate, or just unusual and unexpected circumstances.  In order words, their greed gets the best of them.  As long as legitimate (open to various opinions) gerrymandering respects reasonable bounds of logic…geography, demographics, and representation…I believe it is a process we can all live with and accept.  But sometimes, people in power forget their missions and oaths; they go to places and in directions they should not.  And even though very few of us are experts when it comes to governmental and election complexities…most of us know when something stinks to high heaven.

 

Bottom line: Gerrymandering when done responsibly is an expected outcome of democracy in action.  Gerrymandering when done irresponsibly is an indictment of democracy in action.  The process is not the problem; the problem is the people doing the process.  We get the government we deserve.  Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

 

In the “for what it’s worth” category, here is one other quick observation.  The mainstream media…when it can stop its fascination with defending narco-terrorist sailors, aiding Somali immigrants with their fraud cover-up in Minnesota, and ignoring the fact that the Biden Administration hung a 5 ton stone around the neck of the American economy…have been spouting off about the coming Blue Wave, hanging the danger signs out for the Republicans, and crowing about how resurgent the Democrat Party is today.  All these epiphanies are mainly based on Mamdani’s win in New York City, Sherrill’s win in New Jersey, Spanberger’s win in Virginia, and Behn’s so-called close defeat in Tennessee. Democrats winning in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia are like the sun coming up in the east.  It is no surprise and no big deal that these folks won; they simply defended their home courts.  There is no consolation prize in political races; there is no moral victory in defeat.  The loser goes home and the winner assumes the office.  The new Congressman from Tennessee’s 7^th District will be Van Epps. 

 

The Republicans may or may not do well in the upcoming mid-term elections; but there is nothing in the tea leaves of these elections that indicates the Democrat Party has found its rejuvenated mojo.  I could be wrong here, but in my humble opinion…hitching the Democrat Party wagon to the pulling team of AOC and Sanders, putting the reins in the hands of Mamdani, and filling up the bed with folks like Sherrill, Spanberger, and Behn…well, that strikes me as a risky proposition.

 

One thing is for certain…The mainstream media will do everything within its sphere of power and influence to help the Democrats win in next year’s mid-term elections.  They will cherry-pick economic data to cast the worst light possible; they will frame policy issues, both domestic and foreign, in a way that emphasizes failure and diminishes success; they will glorify Democrat candidates nationwide as nothing short of the second coming, while digging back into high school archives to find damaging fodder on Republican candidates.  “If” the Republicans win the mid-term battle next year, they will do so in spite of the media and based on positive results that they must generate between now and then.  The spinning that we have witnessed from November’s contests and the Tennessee special election is clear evidence who will be favored by the Fifth Estate.

 

There is an old saying: Never play chess with a pigeon.  The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over; then shits all over the board; then struts around like it won.  This is a good description of how the Biden Administration/Democrats ran our government and how Democrats have behaved since Trump reassumed the White House.  Biden and his Democrats spent four agonizingly long years screwing up this nation, its government, and American interests all across the planet.  And now, having been recently removed from control, they have conveniently forgotten all the damage they wrought. 

 

https://justthenews.com/government/security/afghan-watchdog-report-wasted-billions-weapons-us-left-behind-form-core-taliban

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/settling-afghans-here-puts-america-last/

 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/04/obamacareless-90-fake-applications-approved-gao-review

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/minnesotas-massive-welfare-fraud-scandal/

 

And then there are the Biden Administration/Democrat messes that the Trump Administration is trying to clean up…

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/gas-prices-three-dollars

 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/12/05/inflation-lower-expected-new-bea-report-reveals-sparking

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/05/a-long-term-trump-strategy-to-end-the-russia-ukraine-war/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/dealing-with-maduro-is-no-distraction-its-a-necessity/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/03/useless-u/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-progressive-university-vs-the-classical-college/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/competition-economies-of-scale-and-administrative-bloat-in-state-university-systems/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/02/reindustrializing-america-without-retraining-americans-is-futile/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/03/vital-scotus-case-tests-the-presidents-absolute-authority-to-remove-executive-branch-officials/

 

Love him or hate him...there is no denying that Donald J. Trump is large and in charge...

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/07/a-force-of-history-why-trumps-influence-keeps-growing/

 

College Football Madness and Trump’s Dangerous Weapon

Our college football playoffs are upon us once again and parity rules supreme across the pigskin landscape.  No team…with the possible exception of Ohio State…has demonstrated a clear competitive separation from its rivals.  This is a good thing for the sport, but a terrific challenge for its administrators.  The swirling combination of conference expansions, NIL, transfer portal free agency, the coaching carousel, and the continuing foolish influence of subjective injections into the playoff selection process has brought this season to a tumultuous conclusion … and it shows no sign of abatement.

 

I do not…and doubt that anyone else does…have a failsafe solution to this runaway train that is college football.  It is a whirling dervish of moving parts that is constantly morphing from one crisis to another.  The effort required to keep the lid on it at the moment makes it nigh on impossible to prudently plan for the future.  But…that must be done.  Somebody has to make a call.  Clearly, given the parity we are seeing and the lack of consistent dominance by any small group of teams, the future playoff invitations need to be reconsidered.  How that is accomplished is the million dollar question.

 

I want to throw out rules and reason and think outside the box about a new college football configuration.  Our conferences have become far too scattered and we need to return to a fundamental, regional conference setup composed of six major conferences.  The foolishness of seeing BIG 10 schools flying coast-to-coast…crossing multiple time zones…for weekly games is simply stupid.  The mere fact that the ACC faces the possibility of not having its league champion in the playoffs is a clear result of having diluted talent and a too-complex tie-breaking formula.  I say let’s go back to the PAC 10 to represent the West Coast; the Big 12 to represent the Southwest; the BIG 10 to represent the Midwest; the SEC to represent the Southeast; the ACC to represent the East Coast; and a conference to be named later that can represent the Northeast.  That’s six conferences that are easily defined by region and cover the nation.  Ideally, all the conferences would have the same number of teams…at least, close to the same number.

 

I will go one step further and advocate for a new FBS Division I championship that includes only these major conferences.  Any current Group of Five team or FCS team that wants to up its game and competitive challenge could also be included by joining one of the six FBS conferences.  These teams would have 85 scholarships each; the current number allowed. A starting point for the championship could be a 12-game season with 9 conference games and 3 out-of-conference games with other DI schools.  That would provide some valid conference-to-conference comparisons.  There would be no conference championship game with the top two teams from each conference qualifying for the playoffs, and playoff game matchups and bracketing would be decided by national rankings and committee seeding.  All twelve teams get a plate at the table, but their performance will determine where they sit.

 

Then we would have an FCS Division II domain that would encompass the remaining Group of Five teams, along with any existing current FCS teams that did not move up to one of those six FBS conferences.  The conference structure would evolve to cope with the teams leaving and the teams remaining in DII.  These teams would have 50 scholarships; that is 14 above the current level of 36.  The current FCS playoff system can serve as the foundation for this division’s playoff factoring in the conference realignments.  If this idea were to play out, there is an excellent chance that the talent and competitive level in DII will be raised dramatically and its playoffs could rival the DI folks for excitement.

 

The final Division III grouping would include the current DIII, academic-centric schools along with any of the current FCS schools that did not want to step up to the newly-formed DII level.  This division would offer no scholarships.  This would include those schools that are simply looking for a way to continue a football program without breaking the bank.  The current NAIA and NJCAA divisions would be unaffected by this new restructuring.

 

In my humble opinion, this would reinvigorate schools by reestablishing the regional concept, preserving regional rivalries, and by making college football administration far more affordable and manageable.  It would also make the DI championship tournament more meaningful and easier to administer in an equitable fashion.  Current middle-tier schools (Group of Five and FCS) could decide whether to increase their investment in their football program to join DI or pull back a bit and go with DII or DIII.  The exploding increase in the expense to fund a current college football program will make this a welcome option for many schools, with a few likely moving down to DIII,

 

Now let’s talk about the latest Trump indictment.  No…there is not a rogue state Attorney General in some blue state that has conjured up a new case against the President.  What has indicted him this time is his own mouth.  Donald Trump has always been…and will always be…ridiculously irresponsible with his rhetoric.  Many of us suffer from having no filter between our instincts and our mouths; but Donald Trump is the poster child for this affliction.

 

The reckless language that many Democrats have been tossing around over the last several months regarding resistance to the Trump Administration has been increasing at an alarming rate…both in volume and in tone.  There is simply no excuse for much of the uncivil, irresponsible, and ethically-criminal language that many Democrats are tossing about on a daily basis.  Not only is it wrong, it should be embarrassing.  Donald Trump has every right to be furious at these words.

 

Bearing the mantle of the opposition party has always translated into vigorous disagreement with the majority party.  But when that opposition takes the form of careless, baseless, and incendiary remarks that clearly provide cover for violence of varying degrees…it is time to shut the hell up, fall back a bit, and reconsider your approach to the issues.  To any objective observer, the Democrat Party, from the top down, has demonstrated a lack of self-awareness by its obsessive Trump Derangement Syndrome and has allowed itself to ratchet out of control.

 

But as bad as the Democrat behavior has been, Trump has somehow managed to meet it blow for blow.  More and more, the crudeness and venom that is reflected in his response to the Democrats’ rhetorical onslaught has done nothing but inflame the verbal explosion.  Schumer, Jefferies, AOC, Swalwell, Omar, Pritzker, Johnson, Newsom, Mamdani, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post…all of these sources have been undisciplined loose cannons as far as reasonable political discourse is concerned.  But entitled as he is to respond to ridiculous attacks on his person and Administration, President Trump is not justified to respond in equal measure when that measure is so inflammatory.  The simple fact is that our nation has one President and he is that.  Schumer, Jefferies, and the rest of the heel-nipping pack do not distinguish themselves by their words and actions; but they are much smaller pieces in the machinery than our President. Their actions and words simply make them more irrelevant. 

 

Donald Trump has essentially three years left in his final term as president to accomplish his policy goals.  Every time he leaps down into the mud to wrestle with Democrat flamethrowers, he is wasting the precious time that has been allocated for him to serve this nation.  The plain and simple fact is that Donald Trump is all too often his own worst enemy.  He is a wise man…a strong man…with good instincts.  But he is also an undisciplined egomaniac with an atrocious lack of self-control whose entitled life has been ruled by a “shoot first and think later” philosophy.  America deserves better from our president and Trump is capable of being so much more than what he is.  He could be historic

 

Now on to the news of the day….

 

Priority One: Restore the integrity of our National Education system…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/26/public-schools-are-failing-and-parents-are-bailing/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-pernicious-effects-of-grade-inflation/

 

Why is national education so critical?  Just consider what the results have been…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/27/can-the-lost-generation-be-found/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/why-we-actually-should-worry-about-gen-z/ar-AA1RbJUx

 

The Russia-Ukraine war continues its tragic harvest of death and destruction.  There are no good answers, but one must be found…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/01/the-war-in-ukraine-lots-of-questions-and-a-few-answers/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/11/lets-hope-the-russia-ukraine-peace-proposal-improves/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/why-the-ukraine-peace-plan-may-be-pointless/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/24/former-zelensky-spox-ukraine-must-sign-peace-deal-to-avoid-even-greater-losses/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/darin-gaub-deception-vladimir-putin/2025/11/28/id/1236341/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/remember-vladimir-putins-promises-are-worthless/

 

Everything is “legalnomics” these days.  Do you ever get the impression that our nation is led by the judges and not by our elected officials?

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/justice-alito-issues-stay-in-texas-redistricting-case/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/21/exclusive-lawsuit-claims-leftist-benson-is-breaking-michigan-election-law/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/11/22/the-eleventh-circuit-finds-that-covid-beach-closures-constituted-unconstitutional-takings/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/24/obergefell-will-be-overturned-we-can-wait/

 

The mainstream media continues to struggle internally with its own conscience…seeking to regain some credibility, integrity, and respect…

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/rosenblum112425.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/geographic-reveal-exposes-fakes.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/28/is-cnn-about-to-turn-red/

 

We can only hope and pray for our President’s success when he pursues good, common sense policies…both domestic and foreign…

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/sunus-comptroller-who-spent-decades-trying-shrink-government

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/11/30/the-two-calls-to-the-pacific-president-trump-unravels-the-myth-of-a-special-us-china-relationship/