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Thanksgiving 2025: Everything Settled in Conflict Again

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Thanksgiving cartoon for 2025

Thanksgiving 2025 should be about gratitude and grace, but this year it’s exposing empty wallets, political trench warfare at the table, and leaders gaslighting us that life is “wonderful” while millions slide toward modern breadlines. In this iPINIONS commentary, I explain how inflation, culture wars, and Trumpian excess have turned Thanksgiving into a stress test… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Culture, democracy, economy, family, Happy Thanksgiving 2025, Inflation, politics, Trump

Labor Day in Trump’s America: Traffic, Outsourcing, and Political Gaslighting

Monday, September 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Labor Day cartoon of AI robot

America celebrates traffic and sales while workers work. This post shows how grievance politics swap wages for outrage… how offshoring buys cheap goods at the cost of jobs… and how algorithms now do what foremen used to do. iPINIONS contends that the theater is the point… and workers pay for the tickets. Read my full… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: AI surveillance, economy, grievance politics, Labor Day, MAGA, offshoring, outsourcing, Trump, U.S. politics, unions, workers rights

Trump Launches Strikes Against Yemen, Starting Another ‘Stupid War’

Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump launches military strikes against Houthis in Yemen

On guard, Yemen President Trump took time out from yet another golfing weekend at Mar-a-Lago to announce military strikes against Yemen on his social media platform. U.S. forces launched a ‘decisive and powerful’ attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, President Donald Trump said Saturday, an escalation against the group targeting maritime traffic and American troops… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: economy, Houthi, Inflation, Orwellian politics, stupid wars, trade war, Trump, U.S. military, war, Yemen

Delusions of Despair Undermining Obama’s Presidency?

Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

When Barack Obama said he wanted to be a transformative president I’m sure he did not have in mind a transformation from the personification of hope in 2008 to the personification of despair this year. Yet this is the only transformation his (predominantly Republican) critics see. What is delusional about this, however, is that chief… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: economy, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare

With friends like Bill Clinton…

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 5:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Evidently Bill Clinton is so desperate to prevent Barack Obama from going down in history as a more transformative and consequential president than he that he has decided to write a book, Back to Work, trumpeting all of the policies he’d be pursuing if he were president today. Never mind that almost all of the… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, economy

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