By John Dean Friday 15 November 2024. What Did We Learn From the 2024 US Presidential Election Campaign? A Baker’s Dozen of Suggestions and an Attempted Summary of Ongoing Events. In sum, dear readers who have stayed with me this far: No. 1. We will not fully know what we’ve learned until election results are […]

By John Dean 13th November 2024. Wednesday. What he promised. What he’ll do. What could happen. President Elect, Donald Trump. The second term in office a US President often goes for it. He strives to the utmost to gain or achieve something. This is their time to make hay while the sun shines. That is, […]

By John Dean 12th November 2024. Tuesday — just after USA’s Veterans Day. Dear People, As I was saying yesterday… It was a great drive down that broad, smooth interstate Route 81 north but going south on that autumnal, leaf-bright, storm-washed road across Virginia and down through the gullet of the rich Shenandoah Valley. Extended, […]

By John Dean Day 5,Sunday, November 9, 2024. 11th November, 2024. Veterans Day. Dear people, Great drive today on the autumnal, leaf-bright, storm-washed road across Virginia. The Old Dominion! And down the gullet of the rich Shenandoah Valley, part of the great Appalachian Valley that’s spread out between the Blue Ridge to the East and […]

By John Dean Day 5,Sunday, November 9, 2024. Before the 2020 presidential election between Hilary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, I worked with a group of people that prepared a public program to be given soon after that election.  That program was to be about: “Successful Women in US Politics”. Boy did we get that […]

By John Dean Day 5,Friday, November 8, 2024. Near noontime. In the house where I’m stying and the average Americans I’m staying with, we have had a wide-screen television on about twenty hours a day before and throughout the day after the election itself, the sixth of November. The TV was on all the time. […]

By John Dean Day 4, USA: November 7, 2024 — It’s post-Elected President Day Writing from Falls Church, Va., US of A (fifteen minutes from the Whitehouse), Thursday noon. Many in Europe now see the current presidential victory as the triumph of American fascism. We will see about that. There’s a long game to play […]

By John Dean Day 3, USA: November 6, 2024 — Elected Day. Someone woke me up this morning and said: “You want to hear some good news?” “Yeah, ” I mumbled. “I don’t have any.” Shocked, I jumped out of bed, scrambled to the living room. I saw the news splashed all red, white and […]

By John Dean  Day 2, USA: November 5, 2024. We are down to the finishing line. On late-night TV last night a comic said: “It feels like the whole country is waiting to get the news of a biopsy”. Democrats declare they are “nauseously optimistic”. Kamala Harris keeps vigorously belting out her message. From Pennsylvania […]