Tools to Enlighten
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Sometimes the force that rules internet universe, the Youtube algorithm, just does not see fit to helpus get a lot of views on videos that we think are important. Seriously, there are times when we here at reasonandbalance believe that if we think one of our particular videos is particularly important, Read More …
ANAYLYSIS and OPINION Trump’s September 2026 speech at the United Nations was a humdinger. Memorable for sure. Nothing but belligerence and contempt is what he showed the World. He talked and acted as if he alone would decide whether Iran deserved to exist or would be annihilated. One has to wonder if he understood that Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: On September 18, 2026 the New York Post published an article on a Laura Ingraham (of Fox News) statement that indicates that she thinks that some Republicans actually hope the Democrats take control of Congress in the upcoming elections. In fact the title of the article is: Many GOP pols ‘secretly’ hope Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: Yet another of the former Reagan-type Republican, this time, the venerable conservative columnist of many years, George Will, comes out swinging at the innumerable transgressions and deficiencies of today’s GOP. In his sights this time is Darline Graham, the GOP candidate to fill her deceased brother Lindsay Graham’s old seat Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS J. Michael Luttig, a highly respected retired judge who sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently published an article on the New Republic where he essentially stated that the GOP has abandoned its commitment to upholding the Constitution and has chosen to follow Trump. For Read More …
ANALYSIS and OPINION: Trump called the GOP together to have a midterm convention. This was/is highly unusual. There’s no doubt a huge reason was that Trump and the GOP are not, according to recent polls, doing well and are thus at risk of losing control of he House of Representatives, the Senate or both. In Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: Trump’s Triumphal Arch. Does it remind you of anything? Have you been to Paris at anytime during the last 200 years? Napolean. You remember him don’t you. From history class. Yeah, the self-proclaimed emperor of the French who brought decades of European land battles that regularly engaged hundreds of thousands of Read More …
ANALYSIS and OPINION: [Editors Note: Either prior or subsequent to this blog post and video, we did or have done several related articles on this subject. One deals with how various socialist-linked politicians’ and candidates’ beliefs line up with the Democratic Socialist of America platform. See: https://reasonandbalance.com/aoc-el-sayed-angie-nixon-socialist/ In another we provide you with the Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: The confirmation of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence illustrates yet again, that Trump hires only unqualified sycophants to head his departments and agencies. Clayton bows to Trump’s demand that all of his lieutenants falsely deny the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election as President in 2020. With confirmation of Clayton Read More …
ANALYSIS and OPINION: Mayor Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists are gaining a bigger voice around the country. Some say they are causing a civil war in the Democratic Party. Worse, President Trump and Fox News tell viewers to be worried about the rise of communism and point to the Democratic Socialists as proof. What is Read More …