Month: October 2014

Francis Wilkinson is a master of understatement. He notes that the Republican Party has moved seemingly irrevocably away from any notion of enacting immigration reform, despite the best intentions of their party strategists. And...

    The news that the Centers for Disease Control was unprepared for the ebola virus now that it has made landfall in the U.S. is not exactly a bolt from the blue.  Government agencies have been failing us for...

The US health care symptom, with all its inherent weaknesses and flaws, can manage an outbreak of Ebola reasonably well.  Except for one not insignificant factor.  The early symptoms of Ebola are sore-throat, headache,...

A little over forty years ago, the Grateful Dead appeared at the Jai Alai Fronton in Miami, Florida. They were going through a brief phase where they only had one drummer because Mickey Hart had suffered some kind of mental...

I’m generally a live and let live kind of guy who understands that there many cultures in the world, and they don’t all have to resemble ours. However, this is unacceptable to me. Tehran is the seat where most of...