Debate or Forum?
The GOP debates were a complete mess, starting with the fact that they weren’t debates How could they possibly be debates with more people on stage than in the audience? A debate is where a moderator asks a question of someone
The Wrong Plan
Millions of refugees are flooding into Europe. That’s more than Europe can handle even if all of the countries involved really do their part, which countries like Hungry and many others won’t. Nations around the world like the U.S. and Australia are
Election Views #5
The Republicans can’t seem to get it right. They invited Ben Netanyahu to speak before congress and loved his speech but it caused so much trouble it really wasn’t worth it. Next they invited the Pope and then realized that almost everything
Bits & Pieces #62
A five hundred million dollar training program to put together an Iraqi army to fight ISIS has yielded, by the admission of the American general staff, about five or six functioning fighters. Five or six? The only answer to incompetence like
Grand Gal Gores Gowdy
For eleven hours on October 22, 2015, former, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sat before a committee of mostly Republicans, whose only goal was trying to make her look bad before the nation. This was simply because she had the temerity
Two Big Questions
There are really only two big questions to be answered by the candidates in the 2016 election. The first is how do we get the rest of the country back to work and the second is how do we get
The Benghazi Blowout
Wow! Who’d a thought it? Just when the GOP was getting some traction in their phony attacks on Hillary Clinton for Benghazi and emails, the clown who was maneuvering for the third most important job in the country, brags, in
Bits & Pieces #61
Naguin Sawiris, a Coptic Christian, is Egypt’s third richest man. He is showing the world the right way to spend money. He wants to buy an island and house between one and two hundred thousand refugees there. It’s a complicated deal but
Guns: The American Plague
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
Serious About Syria
Everybody and his brother is calling for Obama to do something in Syria. What? Strangely no one has any idea of what to do except “engage”. Of course engagement stops as soon as someone asks – how?. No one wants to