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Skullduggery is alive and well. It’s fun to use an old time term that is so appropriate to today. Fun only means the principle is as old as...

The simple incompetence of our national leaders and their staffs The good news is that they are learning by experience. The bad news is why...

Things were not always like this in American politics and culture We had more citizen politicians and less career politicians than the prese...

Having a problem is less important than how you handle the problem Said another way, leadership counts a lot. And management skills help a ...

The degradation of the word Up front I instinctively blamed the poor state of news media reporting on the feminization of the media. Then a...

The coming revolution in home TV Pick February 18, 2009 (a Wednesday) as the date tens of thousands of home TV’s will go dead. July 4th is a...

The immoral factor idea in American foreign policy Can we just talk? A small part of the population, and some of my relatives, are sure our...

The scientific industrial complex is as bad as the military industrial complex Here are words from President Eisenhower written in 1961 that...

We all serve in our own way “All men are created equal”. Baloney. Some are more equal than others. Some “more equals” assign themselves thi...

Suppose somebody gave a federal tax and nobody came The status quo reigns supreme. If targeted taxes worked before, they will work now, and ...

The dose makes the poison This old saying usually applied to medicines. Most associate it with cancer tests as in if a rat gets 1,000 the n...

A classic misinformation campaign … maybe The recent updates of what may have been the Israeli target in its early September attack in Syria...

Another Turkey background report Between Ralph Peters, whose reports I think much of, and the more recent pundit and media reports which I a...

Ponzi schemes and communes always fail And it is always for human reasons. The present state of national affairs can be looked at alarmingly...

Being nuclear means ruthless is good The recent publicity about the USAF’s screw up over nuclear weapons is a big deal. Even the subject of ...

Welcome to the real world … Which we helped grow and promoted … Good on us! During this ever long run up to the 2008 elections, many things ...

So what is our American future to be? We do have choices. Think a generation is 30 years, and so what do we want America to be in two genera...

The value of a public education Of course it depends on where you live. There are so many “bedroom communities” where families live in orde...

The proper place to debate our foreign policy is the Congress And they are failing abysmally. Partisan politics and advantages and fear of ...

Vote out the politics of personal destruction and the criminalization of politics While these negative political practices often work for th...