Political Junkie

“It’s nothing personal. It’s just business.” This phrase appeared at the end of the opening titles to President Trump’s long-running, successful reality TV show “The Apprentice.” Because Donald Trump and the contestants on both the regular and celebrity versions of the show understood this, he maintained good relationships with most of the participants even after he fired them.  Erin Elmore , Herschel Walker, Stephen Baldwin, Gary Busey, and Trace Adkins, to  name a few  former “Apprentice” cast members, have all jumped on the Trump Train even after he directed his infamous phrase “you’re fired” at them. The guiding principle of “It’s nothing personal, it’s just business” carried over into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Throughout his campaign, Trump made several business decisions designed to strengthen his hand as he sought to accumulate the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Republican nomination. One such decision involved  replacing  his campaign manager, Core

After a four-month absence from writing for this blog, it would make sense for me to weigh in on the topic that has absolutely saturated the American media for the past two months: Coronavirus. I still have plenty of time to do that; since the unmeasured hysteria surrounding the Wuhan flu shows no signs of subsiding anytime soon. But for now, I must focus on a more important matter: finding a new job now that I have unexpectedly lost my full-time job. I had stopped writing for this blog because my new job had a moonlighting policy that would require me to have approval if I wrote for any other publication or organization besides my company. Even if my company did not have a moonlighting policy, I probably would have stopped writing for the blog anyway because I wanted to spend all of my free time enjoying all that the Swamp has to offer; including historic monuments and museums a swell as a great group of conservatives. Unfortunately, the outbreak of Coronavirus and the stay-at-home