Dr Dennis M Swanson
@DennisMSwanson1
Now doing Library Consulting. Former Dean at UNC Pembroke. Former VP of Library, Accreditation, and Operations at Master’s Seminary. Interim Dean at Governor's.
An excellent and clear article on the role of University research and how it benefits the government and American Citizens. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Another excellent essay by David Brooks: nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opi…
David Brooks always has something good to say: nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opi…
An excellent essay on Trump’s Tariffs by David Brooks: nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opi…
Something for Trump to ponder from C. S. Lewis: “For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to wear finer clothes and laugh louder…
And with curfews and various restrictions, the Giants travel to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers for a weekend series. It should be interesting as it always is.
Oh no! I read Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed away today. 😟
Trump’s tariffs are nothing but a wealth transfer from US importers, businesses, and ultimately consumers to the federal government. The governments who are the supposed “targets” of these tariffs pay nothing.
Has Trump bothered to make any statement about the wildly successful Ukrainian attack yesterday?
First it was a Surgeon General who isn't a medical doctor and now a Librarian of Congress who isn't a librarian.😠
Trump should be impeached just for this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Musk has a 19 yr old working in his “reduce the government” group (from the NYT): “A 19-year-old employee of Mr. Musk’s government-slashing task force, Edward Coristine, who publicly calls himself “Big Balls,” is working in the State Department.”
When will this lunacy end? washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…
🚨NEW: Harvard University President Alan Garber has rejected the Trump Admin's demand to prohibit protests and cut DEI programs to receive funding: "[Harvard] will not negotiate over its independence or constitutional rights." RETWEET to thank Garber for standing up to Trump!
As a professional librarian the idea of banning books is always off putting to me. But this story takes the cake, the biography of Jackie Robinson possibly being removed from the libraries at the service academies? l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%…