Month: June 2014

No surprise here, both Amanpour and Ms Clinton are advocates for neocon foreign policy and were trying to outdo each other. What expression is used when two women are in a contest of being more hawkish? I checked the transcript...

Maybe I am just tired from driving to and from the airport, but I had to read George Will’s column three times before I thought that I maybe kind of understood it. Reading his stuff sometimes feels like my efforts to read...

(A comment that grew much too long.) After the first sentence, Pointless Anti-Establishmentarianism is more or less wrong.   The Civil Rights Movement against Jim Crow predated the 1960s.  The first major judicial...

Bloomberg has a fascinating article on how Kurdish oil is causing controversy and strained relations between Baghdad and Turkey. Maliki’s government is losing more than territory. They’re losing oil refineries,...

During the Iraq War, Bush was pushed on by the Pentagon briefings based on religious madness. George playing the role of the Emperor. I would prefer to compare George to Pontius Pilate, a sad historical figure acting in a...