by Walt de Vries | May 23, 2019 | Politics |
Western Michigan at times can be a strange, yet predictable political place. GOP Congressman Justin Amash, who represents that area’s 3rdCongressional District, just proved it. Strange, because Amash is the first Republican member of the Congress and...
by Walt de Vries | Jan 12, 2019 | Politics
This post was originally published on The Ballenger Report on January 7, 2018. As the political chattering class well knows, freshman U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) didn’t even wait until he was sworn into office to take a swipe at Donald Trump, assailing the...
by Walt de Vries | Dec 22, 2017 | Politics, Satire |
A Satire for the Holidays Reading from a Teleprompter and taking no questions, Donald J. Trump, chief White House resident, today announced that he had created “The American College and Temple of Vestal Virgins.” Trump learned of this ancient Roman institution from...
by Walt de Vries | Aug 16, 2017 | History, Politics |
In October, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur promised his troops that had been recalled into military service and sent to Korea–after the war started in June, 1950–that he would have us: “home by Christmas, 1950.” (I was on the way to a troop ship in San...
by Walt de Vries | Jun 6, 2017 | 2018 elections, Politics |
The primaries and general election of 2018 will be unique. They will effectively be legislators’ elections. The North Carolina ballot will look like this:* U.S. House of Representatives State Senate State House of Representatives So, all of the U.S. House candidates...
