Paul Luvera Journal

President Trump’s speech to the United Nations was full of flagrant, total lies that every American, Republican or Democrat, knows from their own daily life are totally false. He told the assembly: “Less than two years ago, the American people gave us a mandate to save America. And in 19 months, I’ve delivered on every single promise I made, and I think I delivered on far more.” Here is the truth about just some of Trump’s broken campaign promises: End…

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My view is that this nation has both the right and the responsibility to regulate immigration and to remove individuals who are legally subject to removal, particularly those who commit serious crimes. But that authority must be exercised through the rule of law—with due process, fair hearings, and respect for individual rights. Effective immigration enforcement should focus its greatest resources on people who pose a genuine threat to public safety, rather than treating every undocumented immigrant as a criminal. What…

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That’s what Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican Senate Minority Leader from Illinois, said about government spending sixty-four years ago at a  Republican leadership press conference. It has been pointed out that “A government that spends more than it takes in eventually discovers that math doesn’t vote.” Our federal government and the Democratic Party in the state of Washington will experience the reality of that quote unless they change their approach to government spending & taxation. As a lifelong Democrat, it…

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The editorial board of The New York Times recently published an opinion that is worth reviewing. The subject is that the President of the United States sued the United States for $10 billion dollars for his alleged wrongful treatment. The Justice Department was intended to be an independent judicial body that enforces our laws, but he removed the Justice Department head and staff with his own appointees. He appointed his own personal attorney as head of this department and then…

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Donald Trump has many upsetting quirks and idiosyncrasies. Two are particularly noticeable. One is his obsession with putting his name on anything that is available. The other is his habitual use of threats, intimidation, reward, or punishment to get his way. The most annoying one is, however, his obsession with self-aggrandizement. TRUMP’S “KILROY WAS HERE” OBSESSION His name obsession reminds me of the historical phenomenon “Kilroy Was Here.” That history is one of graffiti from World War II.   This simple…

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With the possible exception of the New Testament, no works written in Greek are better known than Aesop’s Fables. For at least 2500 years, they have been teaching people of all ages and every social status lessons on how to choose correct actions and the likely consequences of choosing incorrect actions.  Aesop wrote a fable about vanity leading to self-destruction in his tale about a raven and a swan: “A Raven, which you know is black as coal, was envious of…

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The U.S. Treasury has announced that it is providing Argentina with a $20 billion currency swap, essentially an emergency credit line that constitutes a large-scale rescue of a failing economy. The US Treasury, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, has defended the $20 billion currency swap as a legal and strategic move to stabilize Argentina’s economy, which is seen as “of systemic importance” to US interests. Bessent is a close Ally of  Russell Vought, head of the White House Office of…

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There has been a gradual but clear increase in news and events that remind us of War. Recent examples include the unification of China, Russia, and North Korea, as well as India looking for alliances not involving the United States. The image of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un together at Tiananmen Square was a masterclass in political theatre, a chilling and unambiguous declaration for many in the West of a new anti-Western axis. US President Donald Trump has…

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“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” That’s what Fredrick Douglass said in 1885 and is true today. In 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy was conducting an investigation claiming that the United States Army had Communist sympathizers in leadership. The army was defended by Joseph N Welch as chief counsel. At one point in the hearing, Senator McCarthy attacked a young lawyer in Welch’s firm as a communist sympathizer. Welch was outraged…

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Lewis Carroll’s famous Alice in Wonderland says it best about the status of our nation’s constitutional rule of law. Alice observes things have become “curiouser and curiouser,” and so has the political situation in this country. The president of the United States has been allowed to assume the power of an unrestrained authoritarian who governs by issuing numerous decrees labeled “Executive Orders” and which ignore existing laws, constitutional requirements or needed prior legal approval. These executive orders go unchallenged by…

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