Author: James Chamberlin

Trump and Musk want to to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it was created by ElizabethWarren, whom they hate, before she was a senator. According to Wikipedia: The agency was originally proposed in 2007 by Elizabeth Warren while she was a law professor. The CFPB’s creation was authorized by…

Trump campaigned against the courts that were indicting him before he was elected. He has zero respect for courts, although he used them repeatedly to protect himself when he was in the real estate business. Wikipedia has an entry entitled “Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump” It says:…

According to Wired, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

The New York Times reports that President Trump declared on Tuesday while meeting with Netanyahu that Palestinians had no choice but to leave Gaza because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas. He indicated that they could move to Egypt or Jordan, who do not want them. If…

Trump agreed to postpone tariffs on Mexico when Mexico promised to send 10,000 troops to the US border, according to Bloomberg. Unfortuately the Mexican military has been corrupted by the drug culture, according to NPR. Trump may have made a bad deal with Scheinbaum.

New York Times’ David Brooks on how Trump will fail.

The Washingtn Po s The Washington Post is concerned about the fact that Trump is shortcircuiting the security clearance process for some of his new cabinet appointees. Trunp’s mishandling of classified data at his home in Mar a Lago showed he cannot be trusted with secret information. s

On the evening of July 4, 1976, I was working in the Operations Center of the State Department. The fireworks were starting on the National Mall. Henry Kissinger was the Secretary of State. He was having a commemorative dinner on the eighth floor of the State Department in the diplomatic…

The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune reviewed Harry Kopp’s book,The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100, on the history of the Foreign Service, The review said: The origins of the State Department were inauspicious. Headed by Thomas Jefferson, it comprised a small diplomatic establishment that…