John T. Reed’s news blog

My better format for the presidential debates, if they should even exist at all. . Each participant is in a different place connected electronically to a New York. When it is their turn, their camera and mic turn on and they can answer a moderator question. . When their time is up, their camera and mic turn off, in mid-sentence if they do not wrap it up in accordance with the countdown timer that they can see. . A judge like Judge Napolitano enforces my honest debate rules instantly with a button that shuts off the camera and mic of...

It may be that the Democrat debates are over. By the time the next one happens—March 15th—the delegates from 21 states will already have been chosen. Based on money, it appears only the billionaires and Bernie will be left then. . America need to go to my sweet-sixteen tournament system which, by the way, awards no automatic ballot space to parties regardless of how well they did in any prior election. Only candidate names are on the ballots after the first one—no party names. Parties can exist and nominate someone, but that will not get him or her on the...

I finished reading my solar electricity book. What a freaking complicated mess! All the libs ought to have to take a course where they end up building a small solar installation like solarizing a home office..By the time they got done with all the safety and battery acid and care taking on the roof and inverters, controllers, automatic transfer switches, circuit breakers, GFI breakers, etc. I predict their enthusiasm for fantasy solar descending effortlessly from the sky will get a reality check..When my brother-in-law died and we cleaned out his house, we noticed a whimsical, solar-powered footpath light shaped and...

Dems need to select a champion, soon, not in July. It is great fun to make fun of all the Dem candidates, but they need to select one and STOP making fun of him or her. . On paper, Bloomberg is the guy. But not on a debate stage. So he needs to either master debating, which is a sort of a fifth-grade trash-talking session. If you are good at that, and you are older than fifth grade, I would think something is wrong with you. . Bloomberg should reject the notion that you HAVE TO do presidential debates to...

Are we sure Bernie would lose in the general election? . Unless the younger generation has been totally brainwashed. Have they? They were taught by the evil teachers unions and the 99% Marxist college and university faculties. . One poll found that 25% of Americans favor socialism. I wonder how the question was phrased. Some abstract mention of an ism might do well. But how about “Are you in favor on all private jobs and businesses begin replaced by only government jobs?” Are you in favor of federal government doctors and hospitals being the only kind in existence? Are you...