T. S. Eliot didn’t know the half of it. April is indeed the cruelest month, breeding divisive tariffs out of a deranged mind. —S/f, EFP
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About Me

- Edward F. Palm
- Forest, Virginia, United States
- A long time ago, my sophomore English teacher, Father William Campbell, saw something in my writing and predicted that I would someday become a newspaper columnist. He suggested the perfect title for my column--"Leaves of the Palm." Now that I have a little extra time on my hands I've decided to put Father Campbell's prediction to the test. I'm going to start using this blog site not just to reprint opinion pieces I've published elsewhere but to try to get more of my ideas and opinions out there. Feedback is welcome. To find out more about me, please check out my Web site: www.EdwardFPalm.com (Click on any of the photos below for an enlarged view.)
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
My current News & Advance and Kitsap Sun columns --S/f, EFP
An
Afterword. Last
week, on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, I heard Border Czar Tom Homan
grilled about whether those recently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador
received any due process. He dismissed the concern by resorting to inflammatory
whataboutism. “All those young women who were raped and murdered by TDA,” he
asked, “where was their due process?” The thing is, two wrongs don’t make a
right. Granted, a few undocumented immigrants have committed heinous crimes.
But presuming all undocumented aliens to be capable of such crimes, and
preemptively deporting them, does not balance the scales of justice.
Also, on that same Sunday talk show,
I heard Bernie Sanders remind viewers of the fly in Trump’s mass-deportation
operation: “I’ve got news for you. Trump’s billionaire friends are not going to
pick the crops in California or work in the meat-packing plants.”
A friend said he would “pay good
money to see that.” So would I.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
My thought for today
You may have heard that London's Heathrow Airport has no electricity. That means no air traffic control and no runway lights. So I suppose pilots wanting to take off from or land at Heathrow have to ask themselves, "Do I feel lucky?" --S/f, EFP
Sunday, March 16, 2025
My current Kitsap Sun and News & Advance column
I'm returning to those not-so-thrilling days of yesteryear. Truth be told, I'm not held in such high esteem at the Naval Academy. I wonder why. It may have had something to do with the article I mention below as well as one I published in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 1996--"Putting the Naval Academy on Course," 27 May 1996. (I'm using the same topic this week for the News & Advance.) --S/f, EFP
P.S. My apologies for the typo in the 7th paragraph. It was a Freudian slip. I always thought the faculty at the Naval Academy is faulty. --S/f, EFP
Friday, March 14, 2025
