Governor Ron DeSantis announced his run for the presidency, making official what many suspected since November. This humble writer advised him not to run. The road is full of obstacles. It is not just the presidency but the GOP nomination that is a major challenge. There is a path for him. Let’s speculate and consider…
Author: Fred Watson Jr
Student Debt Limbo
College debt repayment is the can that keeps getting kicked. It has been three years since the pause started during covid. Supposedly, this pause will end in September. Don’t count on it. As the election approaches, this hot potato will burn anyone calling for a restart to payments. Might as well offer an alternative approach….
What Does Tucker Do Now?
Editorial Note: This was submitted the same day Tucker announced his show moving to Twitter. Still applicable. Tucker Carlson was cut from Fox News. The hit to the discourse is obvious as he had a unique perspective on politics and social issues, became a household name for Boomers & Zoomers and was a trusted voice…
Fun With An Off-Year Election
Watching a stiff normal Republican win the gubernatorial election of ‘21 in Virginia was fun. Lincoln Project pulled a horrible fake Charlottesville stunt, a slimy Clinton acolyte shot his mouth off and school curriculum came to the fore. It was weird and fun to witness. Not much at stake for non-Virginians. Americans can have fun…
Don’t Do It, Ron
The presidential campaign season has elongated as the stakes grow. Candidates build a resume for a long march towards the Oval Office but in the last decade what used to be a twelve to fifteen month official campaign season has stretched to be twenty-four months and now possibly a continuous affair. The current focus is…
Forget DeSantis vs. Trump, Just Harvest
The right wing pundit class cashed their checks and pivoted to pummeling Trump for the Midterm letdown. Clear the way for DeSantis! Forget it, GOP Inc pundit, it’s the age of hyper-ballot stuffing. Nothing matters if the GOP does not attempt to rollback vote by mail, challenge it in court with lawsuits or to build…
Modern Governing’s Social Complexity Problem
“GET OUT OF THE CITIES!!!” This line with accompanying punctuation marks slips into timelines of news feeds. It is the caption to a video of a wild attack on an innocent pedestrian by a criminal. It is the deep commentary to a graph on crime and prosecutorial malfeasance by a DA. It is also a…
Six Months In
It has been six months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Does anyone know what is going on in Ukraine? The amount of disinformation and misinformation makes media consumers with memories of the Syrian Civil War shrug. Per both American and Russian intelligence services, Ukraine would collapse fast. Once this did not happen, OSINT…
Celebrating Juneteenth
If you are working today, you are not a corporate drone. Corporations jumped on the Juneteenth national holiday and have implemented it into their corporate holiday schedules. Smaller employers do not care, and our service sector still has to work for everyone else. The laptop, email class though, they get the day off. America now…
Nothing Wrong With Exploring National Divorce
In recent months, an idea formerly relegated to the fringe right has popped up in more mainstream right discourse: national divorce. Secession, devolvement or dissolution are other ways to describe it. It is another possibility that was outside the Overton Window now entered into the regular framing medium for policy and ideas. As the board…
The American Sun 