Peter Murmann

The Farewell

No Comments 30 January 2020

The farewell is very simple yet it is able to trigger deep emotions in the viewer’s heart. As the title suggests, a family that immigrated from China returns to the homeland to say farewell to their mother who is diagnosed with an illness and will not allow her to live very long. One branch of the family returns from the USA and the 2nd one from Japan. The film does a wonderful job portraying the challenges of any immigrant family anywhere.

Diary, Politics

Peggy Noonan gives an interesting rationale for why Bolton and Biden should be called as witnesses

No Comments 24 January 2020

PM: I watched a couple of hours of debate on the first day of the Senate impeachment trial when the two parties fought over the rules. It was interesting to watch the arguments but the senate leader had counted the votes and all amendments to the rules were voted down 53 to 47. Every single Republican senator stayed with the “save our president” coalition. The most interesting questions is whether a few senators after the first 5 days will be willing to call witnesses. Peggy Noonan published the most interesting commentary I have read on the trial in the past couple of days.

Impeachment Needs Witnesses on Both Sides
Forget Democrats and Republicans. The interests of a third party, History, are more important.