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06/07/2026

If you can’t say anything…

It is unfortunate that agenda-driven entities and all too politically enmeshed individuals prey upon the unknowing rather than enlighten the gullible.

The decade-long, incessant, repeated, blanket, and deliberate use of select nouns as adjectives directed at Republican Donald J. Trump affects all Americans. Let us apply some of those oft-used descriptors to other presidents.

Democrat Andrew Jackson, a slave-owning racist against blacks, created the Democratic Party. His MAGA-Democrats elected him to the Oval Office. This white supremacist towards Native-Americans (indigenous peoples) is responsible for the “Trail of Tears.”

Democrat James K. Polk initiated an illegal war against brown people (Mexicans) to fulfill America’s “Manifest Destiny” and colonize the southwest United States.

Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt acted like Hi**er and a Nazi-Fascist when he forcibly removed thousands of Asian citizens, green card holders, and migrants from their homes, transported them to concentration camps, and guarded them by U.S. soldiers over several years. In doing so, he shredded the Constitution by vacating both the 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure and 14th Amendment right to due process.

Democrat Harry S. Truman committed War Crimes by the mass murder of tens of thousands of women and children when he used nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to destroy civilian populated cities.

Democrat John F. Kennedy was the United States’ only King who ruled America’s Camelot. His reported “s*xcapades” allow for his inclusion as a s*xual predator.

The examples above demonstrate the ease at which any person can use words, distort facts, revise what is written, or interpret occurrences from a president’s life, as fodder for nefarious purposes — to denigrate a particular president when disliking and disagreeing with him, or her, politically, professionally, and/or personally.

Every American must be wary of political fiction — the willful association of political opponents today with select past events. History, influenced by a multitude of factors, is complicated. Too many politicians, pundits, podcasters, social media influences, talk show hosts, media personalities, bloggers, and activists state or repeat words without complete historical context, without supporting valid references, in attempts to convince the ignorant to accept derogatory remarks as truth. These disparagers are the true threats to democracy.

We should all adopt and live by, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

(All Wet Publishing, LLC © 2026)

05/30/2026

History Repeats

It is often stated history tends to repeat itself. One example is President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams. They remained the only father-son presidents until George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush. In another instance, Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two separated terms in office, until Donald J. Trump.

Some prognosticators posit the United States is on the verge of a Civil War. They point to a divided people where brothers, sisters, siblings, spouses, and families disavow their relationships and refuse to communicate because of for whom they cast their vote. Pundits attest to a dysfunctional Congress where each political party is too entrenched in their own dogma to accomplish the people’s bidding. Prophesiers allude to the population as a whole whereby citizens deny and denounce the opinions of fellow Americans. Soothsayers indicate more and more people lean towards a solution in which death to opponents is acceptable. State governors and legislatures openly defy the federal government. Still others espouse the United States is already in a civil war as internal minor skirmishes occur; only open armed conflict is next.

All arrows point to the most detested republican president of all; hated by democrats, the press, and some republicans. Published are grotesque caricatures of his physical appearance. He is burned in effigy and called a variety of vulgarities. He is an outsider, not of established Washington and certainly not worthy of their patronage. He is so loathed half the country opposes him. He is deemed a threat to democracy. Assassination plots and attempts occur before he takes the Oath of Office. All across the land in towns, counties, states, and in Congress, politicians and judges attempt to thwart his every policy. National unity is not an option.

It is 1861. He is Abraham Lincoln. Did his democratic foes, opposition press, and republican naysayers suffer LDS (Lincoln Derangement Syndrome) when they joined or supported the War Between the States?

Today, are we Americans fast moving towards a more deadly, more destructive, twenty-first century repeat of the worst war on U.S. soil? Some people think so. Some people hope so. Some people want so. If so, only we can prevent it. We need to chill.

05/22/2026

Ain’t America Grand?

In today’s United States, a sixty-five year old man is at liberty to self-identify as a sixteen-year-old girl. Across the nation within private, public, and non-profit sectors, some decision-makers agree with and support that man’s actualization. In a few of those instances, “she,” with completely intact and fully functional male genitalia, is eligible to join with, participate with, share locker rooms with, change clothes with, and shower with teenage females. Those who disagree with the diverse, sameness, and inclusive participation of that person may very well find themselves labeled transphobic.

This scenario is, of course, a fictional dramatization of a possible occurrence in America. Taken to a greatly exaggerated and significant imaginary extreme, using some previously reported events in the public domain, the aforementioned tale may become the basis for an expanded futuristic probability. An old, white, Christian, English-speaking, European-American, male could declare himself a young, black, Muslim, Spanish-speaking, Indigenous-American, female. Any objection to that person’s self-identity might result in the “oppressor” designated a bigoted, racist, islamophobia, transphobia, s*xist and subject to legal action for age, race, religion, and s*x discrimination, if not violation of the “oppressed” individual’s civil and First Amendment rights of free expression.

Ain’t America Grand!

04/27/2026

U. S. Secret Service,
Error Prone?

Once again, the U.S. Secret Service’s ability to protect the president is questionable. Various congressional committees will soon conduct inquisitions. Representatives and senators will stand tall, pop out their chests, pontificate, and strut about like peafowl only to lay blame. We the people will watch another dog and pony show. The pre-coordinated, pre-rehearsed play’s expenditures are taxpayer dollars, time, effort, and hot air. The single accomplishment is monies flowing into the coffers of elected thespians so they can perform their theatrics for another term in office.
The solution is simple. Remove the Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security and reestablish it within the Department of the Treasury where it used to reside. There, it is less likely to suffer government shutdowns directly attributed to Democratic versus Republican political performances. It will not have to compete for resources against other law enforcement. It will have the assets to protect the president – Congress won’t close the office of money. The safety of the president deserves no less.

10/19/2025

Magazine Highlight

The Fall 2025 edition of “Kentucky Alumni” magazine highlighted my fourth book “The Third Party Candidate: In a Divided States of America” on page 55 in “The Bookshelf” section. Kentucky alums, undergrads, graduate students, PhD candidates, and professors check it out. Everyone else, visit my website https://AllWetPublishing.com for details about the book, to order a copy direct from Amazon.com, and learn something about me.

08/08/2025

THE DOGE REPORT: EPILOGUE

DOGE confirmed the suspicions and validated the beliefs of many Americans, that the United States government is a self-absorbed, self-serving, perpetual motion, behemoth.

Its Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches became dense, thick, corpulent, and authoritarian. Like all monsters, the bureaucracy got bigger and stronger which necessitated the consumption of more and more — money. There is neither incentive nor reward for reducing the administrative gargantuan. Quite the opposite exists. The modus operandi of the federal leviathan is, “Spend it when you get it. If you don’t have it, borrow or print it and spend that, too.”

Over the course of several past years, individual members of Congress, private citizens, government watchdogs, and various entities warned of pervasive waste, fraud, and abuse. They were ignored. Enter the wealthiest man on the planet who joined forces with the most powerful human on earth. Both of whom decided to slay the cyclopean state; thus, creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

For all the claims of dollars saved by eliminating funding for multiple and various programs, was the overall federal budget reduced from prior year’s levels? Did the country’s debt limit shrink? Has the treasury stopped borrowing money? Did the Federal Reserve cease printing dollars? Did DOGE forever dispatch the taxing, borrowing, printing, and spending beast; or, just put it to sleep until the next Congress, the next president?

In the final analysis, did DOGE really accomplish anything? Was it simply reliving, “This mania for tinkering with established institutions is one of the greatest evils of our government,” as Civil War General John M. Schofield commented to General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1878.

07/29/2025

Code of Ethics for Government Service

The U.S. House Resolution stated, “Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including office holders:”
The U.S. Senate, by unanimous consent, “understands and intends that this resolution apply to every servant of the public whether he be the President, a Member of Congress, a lifelong career employee … It believes there is no room in a great democracy such as ours for any set of double standards.”
Public law enacted states, in part, “the Code of Ethics for Government Service shall read as follows-

"CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE

"Any person in Government service should:
"I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
"II. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion.
"III. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving earnest effort and best thought to the performance of duties.
"IV. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.
"V. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept, for himself or herself or for family members, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of governmental duties.
"VI. Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
"VII. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of governmental duties.
"VIII. Never use any information gained confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means of making a private profit.
"IX. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
"X. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.”

Is it no wonder Americans are disgruntled with their national government?

(Sources: (1) Pub. L. 96–303, July 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 855. Code of Ethics for Government Service. (2) B12 July 11, 1958 [H. Con. Res. 175] July 15, 1958 Concurrent Resolutions - July 11, 1958 [72 Stat.]. Code of Ethics for Government Service, 72 Statutes at Large B12, House Concurrent Resolution 175, 85th Congress, 2nd Session, January 7, 1958–August 24, 1958, Enacted July 11, 1958. (3) 13556-13557 Congressional Record - Senate, July 11, 1958, Code of Ethics for Government Service.)

07/13/2025

THE DOGE REPORT: PRESS REPORTING

Depending on the medium and sources by which one receives one’s news, there is discussion whether or not the reporting of DOGE’s actions and effects is accurate.

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a hundred thousand bayonets.” — Napoleon Bonaparte*

“If the government wishes some fact to remain unknown, almost all major organs of publicity will assist in concealment. In such cases it often happens that the truth can only be made known, if at all, by persistent and self-sacrificing efforts involving obloquy and perhaps disgrace. Sometimes, if the matter rouses sufficient passion, the truth comes to be known in the end.” — Bertrand Russell.**

“…without fairness and balance journalism may become indistinguishable from vigilantism.” — Don Kowet***

“Partial truths are divisive; comments out of context, destructive. Carefully chosen words that obfuscate facts are lying. The selective elimination of pertinent details a willful misrepresentation. These are sins of omission.…Discourse must be truthful….Failure to do so only feeds the continual distrustful narrative.” — Augustus Lincoln Treatise****

*(Appears to be fabricated, as it is not known from surviving print before 19 March 1845 when it appeared in “Mississippi Democrat” in an article titled 'The Press' and in “The North-Carolina Standard” on its own as a column filler. On April 17, 1845 a longer version of ‘The Press’ article appeared in “The Guard” (Holly Springs, Miss.) crediting the article to the “New Orleans Jeffersonian,” a newspaper edited by Col J F H Claiborne (Life of Col. J.F.H. Claiborne by Franklin L. Riley, p.232). The relevant issue of the Jeffersonian does not appear to have survived but is possibly the original source of the invented quote. Claiborne again uses the "quote" in 1846 in a tribute to Professor Thomas R. Dew, (Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, Va.), October 20, 1846). The "quote" then quickly spreads across the english-speaking world, arriving in England by 26 April and appearing in “The Sentinel” (Sydney, Australia) on 5 November 1845. It appears to be unknown in french. Source: Napoleon - Wikiquote as of 29 June 2025.)

** (Russell, Bertrand. Essay titled “On Civil Disobedience” (undated), page 3. It accompanied a letter dated 17 September 1961 to Clara Urquhart for the essay’s inclusion in her work “A Matter of Life,” pages 189-196. Mrs. Urquhart did not include Russell’s title. Edited by Clara Urquhart, © 1963 by Clara Urquhart, published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, printed in Great Britain by Billing & Sons Limited, Guildford and London on paper made by John Dickinson & Co., Bound by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd., London.
Russell’s essay was extracted from “A Matter of Life” and titled [The Committee of 100] in “The Borzoi College Reader: Shorter Edition,” 1968, pages 180-185. Edited by Charles Muscatine, University of California, Berkeley, and Marlene Griffith, Laney College, © 1966 by Charles Muscatine and Marlene Griffith. Published by Alfred A. Knopf: New York, published simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canada, Limited, distributed by Random House, Inc.)

***(Kowet, Don. ‘Inside Story,’ in “A Matter of Honor: General William C. Westmorland versus CBS News,” Page 263, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1984, and Collier Macmillan Publishers, London, 1984.)

****(Williams, Tom. ‘State of the Union,’ in “President You: How a Thoughtful Ordinary Citizen Could Change the Most Complex Government on Earth,” Page 49, All Wet Publishing, LLC, © 2019)

07/02/2025

What is an American?

As we celebrate the 249th year from when British colonial subjects, who called themselves Americans, declared their independence from both king and country, might we ask ourselves, “What does it mean to be an American?”

We are, as written in that July 4, 1776 document, “created equal” and bestowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

We are, as J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote in 1782, “…that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country…individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world… here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever happened…The American ought therefore to love this country much better than that wherein either he or his forefathers were born…”

We are the people of the United States and charged with the responsibility of continually striving to “form a more perfect Union,” not make a perfect country in our own individual image. We must, as written in our Constitution’s preamble, “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” for every citizen and our progeny, not the few whose shouting voices and destructive methods demand special consideration.

We are believing, feeling, thinking, and understanding human beings who ought deeply consider the Freedom and Liberty bestowed upon us citizens of this magnificent nation. Adopting “The American’s Creed” is not too much to ask as payment for living in what many have called the great and glorious American experiment.

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