John Brooks

I’ve been amazed and disappointed at the continued blaming for both preparation and response by the Feds and the Administration, led by the media (of course), then parroted in social media posts.  The number of articles that are cited and…

Let’s talk today about numbers.  I’ve heard a lot of unsubstantiated rhetoric about “Trump letting people die” and “Trump didn’t take action fast enough” and “Trump didn’t take it seriously”, and so on… While this post may seem to be…

I am actually not one to kick a man when he’s down, and frankly Bernie Sanders is definitely down right now, but I did want to close on at least one more review of his extensive plans he has been…

Yes, bad pun.  But let’s talk about COVID-19 for a bit.  Here we are watching the markets take a huge digger, because they are being hyper-reactionists.  Are there economic impacts, especially to certain industries?  Of course.  Travel is getting creamed…

After a relative posted a link to Bernie’s plans and encouraged me to read it, I took it up and started performing an analysis on what Bernie proposes and what questions he answers … and what he doesn’t, at least…

With the most recent budget debate starting to heat up, I have been asked on several occasions “what justifies the increase in defense spending?”  Without going into specifics on the budget the White House sent over (no, Social Security and…

Should there be a senate impeachment trial?  If we can call these guys to determine if Trump was right in having the Bidens investigated – yes.  Absolutely.  Nobody, political foe or not, is immune from wrong-doing.  Everyone is so happy…

Many of my friends wonder why I and many of my fellow Center-Right friends appear to support Trump.  Let’s be clear:  It’s not that we like the guy (in many cases), but instead our position is based on two key…

As I watch the endless stories on what’s being said, what’s being ignored, etc., and having read the centerpiece transcript and so-called Whistleblower papers (linked to in my last posting), not to mention the social media rhetoric of “if Obama…

As discussed in my last post, democrats have jumped onto the impeachment bandwagon, based off an alleged whistleblower statement and a call transcript between Trump and the new Ukraine President Zelenskyy.  Naturally, there has been the expected social media frenzy…