Flying Into Hell
I don’t know about you but I have come to hate flying. A century or so ago, when I was a kid, I flew with my family to many foreign lands and a good deal of this one. It was always
I don’t know about you but I have come to hate flying. A century or so ago, when I was a kid, I flew with my family to many foreign lands and a good deal of this one. It was always
Watching all the commentators discuss the delegate count for both primaries makes one realize that our electoral system is the most undemocratic mess that ever crawled out of a garbage pail in Kowloon. You combine the Democrats Supper delegate farce with
There has been a lot of noise made about foreign trade policies and how bad they have been for this country. Donald Trump, who is making the most noise, does know a little about trade. Very little! He is always harping
The Republican primaries came apart at the seams the other night with supposedly mature men who are running for the Presidency of the greatest nation in the world, squabbling like children in a schoolyard or punks on a street corner. But there
Americans are suckers! Anyone with even the least credibility can say almost anything they like and a certain percentage of American readers or viewers will take it as gospel. It’s a disease, and more than anything else, it is ruining our
A lot of writers, myself included have attacked the cowardly reactions to various terrorist attacks here and abroad. The easiest front on which to attack these fears is based on what we do to ourselves with the same guns used by those
It’s hard to believe that in this day and age, when we are facing so many real problems in the world, that we actually stop and pay attention to a bunch of brain locked yahoos on a mission from Ghost Busters to
For many thousands of Americans the debate over abortion rights is a very real and very important issue. Like most issues there are two distinct and legitimate sides and debate has often become angry. This is to be expected when issues are
The violence in Oregon has generated all the expected noise and all of it is about the wrong solution. Everyone wants to blame the whole problem on crazy people because that’s easy. They all speak about background checks as if that
There has been a great deal of speculation over the comparison between Bibi Netanyahu’s address to congress and that of Pope Francis. In fact there is very little to compare. Netanyahu’s address was a political sales pitch fostered by the leaders