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October 5, 2016 - Jacking the Trump Train

The other day I was asked whether I was on the “Trump Train.”  I had to think about that for a minute or two.  NO, I am not on the “Trump Train” but YES, I am going to vote for Donald Trump (R) without hesitation and without fail. With the exception of Sen. John McCain […]


December 30, 2015 - There is Something About Hillary

For the past several weeks Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been suggesting that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has impairments. In a December 3, 2015 column, Business Insider columnist Colin Campbell noted: “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the same two things about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in almost every campaign speech […]


September 2, 2015 - Will Hillary Withdraw?

The hottest topics of conversation at the moment in circles that care about politics are two: Will Hillary Clinton (D) drop out of the presidential race in light of the criminal investigations relating to her use of a private email server for all purposes, including receipt and transmission of classified materials, during her tenure as […]


April 29, 2015 - The Ethics of Hillary Clinton

“Money-grubber: a person who cares too much about getting money” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I was growing up in eastern Montana, the term “money-grubber” was used sparingly but derisively by my father to apply to people who would routinely sacrifice ethics, morality and, occasionally, legality in pursuit of money. He was entitled to be critical. […]


December 2, 2008 - What to make of Hillary SOS appointment.

A lot of talk has been going on over Hillary Clinton’s appointment to Obama’s Secretary of State Office. Kimberley Strassell of the Wall Street Journal says it is all political. Read it here. Excerpts below:

The actual motivation? Short term, Mr. Obama understands his real struggles are going to be in the Senate, where he will need 60 votes. Left there with nothing but a potential future run against Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton would be tempted to use her position to highlight her differences with the sitting president. Even as a junior senator, she could gum up his works. Mr. Obama does not need that. The job at State all but eliminates this threat. As the nation’s top diplomat, Mrs. Clinton will be barred, both by law and by custom, from partisan politics. She’ll have to dismantle her extensive political operation, and end the patronage that has earned her continued loyalty. There’s arguably also not enough time for Mrs. Clinton to make her mark as secretary of state, and find a reason to break with her boss, and piece back together her empire, and get into a presidential race….


May 19, 2008 - Oregonian Full Page Hillary Ad looks like a Rockstar

While the front page of the Oregonian headlined Obama’s 75,000 rally at Portland’s Waterfront Park there was surprise on page B3.

The full page ad showing Hillary in the rain. The ad ends with a big bold line “We want Hillary to stay in this race until every vote is cast, every vote is counted, and we know that our voices are heard”.

The ad was paid by the WomenCount PAC.

Here is similiar wording from the same type of ad that ran in USA today.

Not So Fast”¦

Hillary’s Voice is OUR Voice,

And She’s Speaking for All of Us


January 15, 2008 - BrainstormNW: Can print media survive?

Survival and the Future of Print Publications:
Comments on the industry’s precarious future

Jim Pasero,
Publisher, BrainstormNW
Remarks before the Portland Rotary Club November 27, 2007

Last month, October 2007, BrainstormNW magazine celebrated its 10th anniversary with a dinner at the Tualatin Country Club, keynoted by Congressman Greg Walden “” who, by the way, sounded like he might make a good governor one of these days.

Not that we might need one.

We know that the print industry is in decline. Last month I addressed that topic in our 10th anniversary issue: I wrote partly about the number of newspapers who suffered major cutbacks this year, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, Star Tribune “” the list goes on and on.


September 20, 2023 - The Trial of Joe Biden – Don’t Bother

This past week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced that the House would begin an “impeachment inquiry” of President Joe Biden (D). Immediately thereafter the collective head of the Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media exploded. The same mainstream media that embraced every false lead dropped by the Justice Department and […]


September 6, 2023 - Tribalism and Violence

Yugoslavia was a quilt stitched together during World War II by the Soviet Union aided by the United States of America. It included historic enemies within its “new” borders including Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. These were, prior to the forced alliance, basically tribal enclaves representing both ethnic and religious factions – […]


February 15, 2023 - Biden’s Unsolvable Problem – Kalamata Harris

Biden’s Unsolvable Problem – Kalamata Harris The knives are out for Vice-president Kalamata Harris (D). No, not the Republican knives. . . well, yes but they’re already old, dull and ineffective. No, it’s the knives of the Democrats and their publicists in the mainstream media. It is going to be “death by a thousand cuts.” […]


February 3, 2023 - An Anecdote of Government Media Strategy

Samantha Power, who was forced to resign from the Obama campaign in 2008 and was later black-balled from serving at the State Department in the first term of the Obama administration due to calling Hillary Clinton a “monster,” has written a lovely memoir: The Education of An Idealist. This hawkish Democratic foreign policy wonk has […]


November 23, 2022 - The Republicans Crashed on the Phantom Red Wave

This week, after most of the smoke had cleared regarding the mid-term elections I changed my registration in Arizona from Republican to Non-Affiliated. As you are probably tired of hearing I am a conservative, not a Republican. During that time I registered as a Republican solely because there are no real conservatives allowed in the […]


May 27, 2022 - The Realignment of American Foreign Policy Politics

A fairly significant realignment in American politics seems to be in play over foreign policy. The twentieth century saw two big shifts: the Second World War ended the Republican Party’s opposition to increased defense spending and foreign intervention. The Vietnam War recreated that worldview within the Democratic Party. During the years between these two wars, […]


April 20, 2022 - The Irrationality of Political Hate

Okay, you dislike President Donald Trump. I get that. But when “dislike” turns to hate and hate turns to irrationality, I really don’t get that. Sure there are a number of things about Mr. Trump upon which you can hang “dislike” but “hate?” That’s a bit too much. But even at that when hate turns […]


March 23, 2022 - Joe Biden: Move Over Neville Chamberlain

During our Civil War non-combatants would spread their blankets, unpack their picnic baskets and watch the ebb and flow of battle. They were as clueless as to the cruelty of war as most of our politicians who speak furiously from the safety of their legislative chambers or behind the microphones of their collaborative news media. […]


March 3, 2021 - Say Good-bye Ms. Pelosi

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is on the hot seat for sexual harassment of least two former staffers. The surprising thing is that the allegations of sexual harassment are getting more air time than the pending allegations regarding his responsibility for the deaths of between 10,000 and 15,000 elderly patients who die of COVID 19 because Mr. […]


October 28, 2020 - Is Joe Biden a Crook?

Joe Biden is stupid. I’ve said it a hundred times in these columns. I’ve said it most often in response to those who claim that age has diminished his cognitive skills. I’ve pointed out his history of plagiarism as evidence of person without the intellectual skills for critical thinking. I’ve pointed out his history of […]


October 14, 2020 - Why I’ll Vote Again for President Donald J. Trump

see In 2016 I voted for Donald J. Trump. It wasn’t that I was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump throughout the primary process – I was pretty much a supporter of Carly Fiorina and Scott Walker. I enjoyed the debates with Mr. Trump because he had the chutzpah to say the things that we […]


October 1, 2020 - Why I’ll Vote Again for President Donald J. Trump

In 2016 I voted for Donald J. Trump. It wasn’t that I was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump throughout the primary process – I was pretty much a supporter of Carly Fiorina and Scott Walker. I enjoyed the debates with Mr. Trump because he had the chutzpah to say the things that we all […]


September 23, 2020 - The Next Justice for the United States Supreme Court.

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday, September 18, 2020. She will be remembered as a liberal icon for her steadfast advocacy on behalf of women both before her appointment to the Court by former President Bill Clinton, and after. She had an extraordinary keen mind and a humorous zest for life […]