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The Extreme Court

June 26, 2022

The Supreme Liars of the Extreme Court uite simply, everyone of the members of the court that voted to overturn Roe v Wade lied. They lied to get their jobs. Every senator except Susan Collins knew they were lying. They put the job above the majority of “We the People.” Political bias was involved. Ignorance […]

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NATO Or No To Ukraine?

April 16, 2022

The reluctance of NATO to widen putin’s war is quite understandable. That policy cannot be engraved in stone. That should be obvious to everyone, even the little putz whose fevered fantasy is the sole reason for this atrocity.

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Nyet!

March 31, 2022

ow could anyone think that putin the putz actually intends to negotiate in good faith? Can anyone cite an agreement he has honored? Negotiation, by its very nature, would give each side something they want. So, it gives him some or all of what he wants. Should he be rewarded for his invasion?

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Does It Matter?

August 18, 2021

t seems impossible to avoid seeing heartrending stories of Afghanis who worked for us and their families desperately seeking a safe haven. If they pull off a miracle of getting to Kabul through territory controlled by the Taliban, they face a Kafkaesque American bureaucratic barrier. Actually, two.

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Now Hear This

October 31, 2020

aving been a foreign correspondent, the title of the video I have embedded quite naturally caught my attention. I expected to see something familiar. I should have known better. The video is a compilation by The New Yorker of impressions of this country by foreign correspondents assigned to the U.S. It always helps to see […]

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It’s Not A Greek Crisis

July 10, 2015

reece cannot fall all by itself. It likely will bring the end of the Eurozone and create significant problems for the US. The Eurozone is a noble experiment but it is run by an international cartel of incompetents.

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Greek Debt < German Debt

July 7, 2015

emper, temper, Angela. Ms. Merkel  certainly should be aware of 20th Century German history. It is ironic that Germany, of all governments, would be demanding debt repayment. Greek debt is a pittance compared to Germany’s forgiven debt following The Great War and WWII. Even Great Britain and France have not always honored their debts. But, […]

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Mission Accomplished

June 13, 2014

A picture that we have seen ad nauseam appears to have been corrected to make it more historically accurate. The German newspaper, Die Tageszeitung got it right. The photo now shows Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi, field commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda splinter group. He’s the newest Bad, Bad Leroy Brown […]

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We Never Listen

April 7, 2010

Some readers may have skipped the Classics. Some may just have memory problems associated with age. That I can identify with. Ms. Cassandra’s beauty caught the eye of Apollo. He gave her the gift of knowing the future. She spurned Mr. Apollo, so he cursed her. Her predictions were to be ignored. Obviously she is […]

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Numbers

March 1, 2010

It isn’t even close to Halloween but this post should spook you. Why would I try to scare you? Can’t it wait until the end of October? No. I’m funny that way. Just saying the word economics causes most people’s eyes to glaze over. Actually finding out what is going on in the economy has […]

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