Sunday Focus: The Exploitation of a Pandemic

By Robert A. Vella Before getting to the Sunday Focus, here are the latest numbers on the coronavirus pandemic plus Continue reading →

Trump’s Pandemic Failure: First he denied it, then he tried to steal the headlines, now he’s covering it up

By Robert A. Vella On January 20th to 21st 2020, the first reported COVID-19 cases were reported in South Korea Continue reading →

Market jitters undercut Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat to help his reelection chances

By Robert A. Vella President Trump has been publicly downplaying the worsening coronavirus threat, which is now technically a pandemic Continue reading →

Humpday Headlines: the SOTU and the SNAFU

By Robert A. Vella I didn’t watch last night’s State of the Union speech by Herr Trump and I’d expect Continue reading →

A shakeup and a shakedown for Republicans in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump

By Robert A. Vella Politics can be very complex and difficult to understand, and it is especially so in today’s Continue reading →

Iran’s attack provides a lesson in rhetoric, and today’s news

By Robert A. Vella Last night, Iran launched intermediate-range ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases shared by U.S. forces Continue reading →

Sunday Focus: A madman runs amok

By Robert A. Vella I’ll only briefly cover this weekend’s threatening rhetoric between President Trump and Iran’s leadership because such Continue reading →

Monday Kickoff: Georgia governor defies Trump, China retaliates, Trump ads taken down, data breach

By Robert A. Vella Ahead of this week’s important impeachment proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee, we kickoff this Monday Continue reading →