John Kelly

General John F. Kelly is retired from the US Marine Corps, where he commanded the Southern Command. He replaced political operative Reince Priebus as President Trump's Chief of Staff. The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking staff member in the White House, and was formalized as such in 1961. This is not a Senate confirmable position. What the Chief of Staff does varies from administration to administration but it is almost always about the same. This person can be the puppeteer, in the case of a President who is weak and in need of a guiding hand. This person is always a…

As I've said so many times before, this blog is my hobby. I write about what interests me for my own amusement. If it also interests you, that's awesome. Fortunately, I've found that several thousand people a day do like what I lay down on a daily basis, sometimes with occasional spikes to ridiculous levels of traffic (such as this Dr. Oz post, which for some reason broke all traffic records for this blog since the very beginning, and not by a little bit) and, more recently, this post about how the CDC did not apologize and "admit" that the flu vaccine this year doesn't work, which got…