Category: The Long Game

And why all of the folks defending the indefensible are wrong. James Fallows sums it up very well: Nonetheless I contend that a full process of American self-examination and accountability will make a tremendous long-term difference in international views of the United States. Even among those who at the moment

Dick Cheney that is. Current CENTCOM gives him and ADTAKE*: *Advise action Taken. A message from higher authority asking you (sometimes not very politely) WTFO. Getting one was not a good thing.

Reprinted from the Britannica Blog. I especially agree with bullet 1-a well timed veto of a Pelosi or Harry Reid pet project would be a good way to break away from the so called “liberal” moniker. Maybe veto Card check perhaps? In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Barack Obama

It’s hard to imagine a more inspiring back-to-back of political addresses than McCain’s concession and Obama’s victory speech. Is this a great country or what? I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from friends tonight bemoaning how the end of the world is upon us and Obama will take the nation

Of voting tomorrow………….. On so  many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise.  There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of

Of voting tomorrow………….. On so  many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise.  There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of

Reprinted from The Economist, who has it right: America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world

Now if only I could be 16 again In 1973, the Vietnam war came to an end for the US, the Arabs started one in the Middle East, and the stock market lost half its value and the world went into a world wide recession. Oil prices doubled. I also

The clouds are circling and what is left of Fay is going to drop some needed rain here on Shopping Mall USA. Accordingly, the S.O. finally found that she could no longer stop me from going to the NASA museum here-so off we go there today. We both were slow