The Political Page, T+360 -- January 16, 2018

This week, specifically, Saturday, January 20, 2018, will mark the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency.

Unable to impeach the president, the anti-Trumpers would love to see a government shut-down blamed on President Trump on the anniversary of his first term, going into the mid-term elections. The tea leaves certainly suggest we will see a (partial) government shutdown, purely to make a political statement, as of midnight January 19, 2018.

Time for a poll. If we see a government shutdown on Friday, it will last:

• through the weekend
• one full week
• two weeks
• longer than two weeks
• other

My hunch: if we do see a partial government shutdown, it will last through the weekend and then, based on the polling results, will come to a quick end or will continue. It's very possible the average American really won't care, but the mainstream media will have a field day, as they say.

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For The Archives

2017: the year that the mainstream media went to war with a newly-elected, popular president. At the end of the day, the most used phrase in 2017: "fake news."

A big "thank you" to a reader for spotting this article. Just in time for the poll and supports my feeling that the president's first year will be capped by a (partial) government shutdown which will occur over the weekend, which begs the question: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I think we will have an answer to that story a week from now, next Tuesday, January 23, 2018. 

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Books On My Nightstand

The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, Michael. J Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, the former c. 2007
Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry, 4th Edition, William H. Brown, c. 1987 (yes, I know)
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World, Michael D. Fayer, Ph. D., c. 2010

All previously read; being re-read. Need to read this stuff to keep with the granddaughters.