Wither Goest Afghanistan?
We are now ten years into a war in Afghanistan that by any definition of victory is unwinnable. So what are we doing there and how do we get out? Bush, who started the war, was going to kill Osama bin Laden.
Category: Politics
How to Make America Work
People keep emailing me nostalgia, great charts where I can pick out music of the ‘50s, photos of the immigrant sections of NYC in the 1880s, lists of stuff that we don’t use anymore like glass milk bottles, steel roller skates and
The Definition of Insanity
The definition of insanity is continuing to repeat the same action and always expecting a different result. It may also be the definition of stupidity. Two columns in today’s NY Times, one by Ross Duthat and the other by Paul Krugman, although
What Does America Want?
That seems to be the question of the hour because whoever answers it correctly will come away with a November 2 victory. But is what America wants, really what America needs? There are as many answers to that as there are people
Bits & Pieces 3
Holy War: Should Americans Fear Muslims? I have just watched Christiane Amanpour moderate a madhouse catfight on “HolyWar: Should Americans Fear Muslims.” It had a full compliment of nuts featuring; Franklyn Graham, Robert Spenser and Gary Bauer on the anti-Muslim team and
What’s Going On Here? 3
The Republicans are already bragging about how they will take back the house and how that will allow them to have hearings on everybody and everything that the Democrats have touched. That would be a good thing if the object were to
5 Things the Dems must do but won’t to win next months election
This is the first time I have done this; that is, completely excerpted a piece that someone else has written but I thought that this was so important that I was obligated to show it in its entirety. I don’t always agree
What’s Going on Here II?
Throw out government is the war cry of people too stupid to realize that they need government and too lazy to figure out a way to make it work. We have an election coming up. What are we going to do about
What’s Going On here?
What’s Going On Here? This is a three part series on where we are as a country, where we want to be as individuals, where we should be as both, how we think we can achieve both and how that will be
Bits & Pieces 2
Healthcare: Will it work? The jury’s still out and will be for quite some time. What we do know is that what we had wasn’t working. Insurance companies were dropping sick people causing the government to pick up their coverage or forcing