Richard Wayne Bowling

The MAGA GOP just doesn’t get it. Health Savings Accounts are no substitute for the ACA.

I was there for the initial release of “Star Wars” in 1977.

I recently did a ranking of the 11 live action feature films because a friend of 40 plus years asked me to.

I didn’t really enjoy that process because, IMO, there was such a steep drop off in quality after the first two movies.

Rubio is an empty shell of a human being.

YouTube video by Perry Henzell Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session

R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff 1944-2025

Mark Kelly (and the other lawmakers on the video) reminded uniformed personnel of their oath to the Constitution and their obligation not to follow unlawful orders.

Hegseth is performing for Trump as usual.

There is no Department of War. Congress has not voted to change the name of the DOD.

The James Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed due to Halligan’s appointment being unlawful.

McMahon’s “Professional” degrees include:

Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)
Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.)
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)
Law (L.L.B. or J.D.)
Medicine (M.D.)
Optometry (O.D.)
Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., or Pod.D.)
Theology (M.Div., or M.H.L.)

Non “professional” degrees:

Education (including teaching master's degrees)
Nursing (MSN, DNP)
Social work (MSW, DSW)
Public health (MPH, DrPH)
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Business master's
Engineering master's
Counseling & therapy

Under the “Big Beautiful Bill”, a student pursuing a degree that the Department of Education designates as a “professional” degree has a federal loan cap of $50K per year up to a total of $200K.

Other graduate students have a federal student loan cap of $20.5K per year up to a total of $100K.

It won’t last, but today, November 21, 2025, Trump was charmed by Zohran Mamdani.

The Border Patrol is acting as if all states are border states, and they are using a license plate monitoring program throughout the country to identify drivers whose travel patterns are “suspicious”.

I wonder if Border Patrol overreach has been challenged in court.

Trump’s call for elected officials to be executed should never be brushed off as “a distraction” or “Trump being Trump”. He is putting the lives of these officials and their families in danger.

The United States Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols; they will now be called “potentially divisive symbols”.

Heaven forbid that any groypers in the Coast Guard would be called out for their hate.

This is really a MAGA “Justice” Department civil war.

This is going to be interesting.

A group of US senators and representatives recently posted a video on Senator Slotkin’s X account where they reminded uniformed military and intelligence personnel of their oath to the Constitution and that they can refuse to follow illegal orders.

Trump:

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.”

I just heard a podcast host say that Trump’s friendship with Epstein doesn’t make him a criminal.

Perhaps not, but his 34 felony convictions definitely make him a criminal.

Trump may have personal reasons why he fawns over Putin other than just his general admiration for authoritarians.

Kompromat?

Being a friend to Jeffrey Epstein was inappropriate in and of itself.

The additional information was additional orders from Trump.

Patel looks like his skeleton is about to jump out of his skin.

Trump, who loves signing bills for the camera surrounded by lots of people, had no signing ceremony for the Epstein files bill.

He did not even invite the Epstein survivors to the signing.

“No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.”

Pay no attention to the Trump behind the curtain.

An account called @shuchancellor.online just added me to an “annoying liberals” moderation list.

I try to make my points using facts, actual quotes, and logic. If that makes me annoying, I can accept that.

Trump said today that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

That was not what the United States intelligence community determined.

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) voted to protect elite pedophiles.

I don’t think there’s any chance we will see the unredacted Epstein files while Trump is president.

Trump now says that he would sign the bill to release the Epstein files if it reaches his desk.

He could release the files today if he wanted to.

Unfortunately, Michelle Obama is correct. The US is not ready for a female president.

It was ready for an authoritarian ignorant unqualified felonious bigoted sexual abusing buffoon…but not a woman.

Twice.

The arc of the moral universe has some serious bending to do.

“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.”

- Number 6, “The Prisoner”

I’ll believe that Trump had a “reversal” on the Epstein files when they are released.