President Trump walked away from denuclearization talks with North Korea in Hanoi last night. Demands made by Noko’s war-loving, crazy dictator were unrealistic. As the President said, no deal is better than a bad one. Meanwhile, Pakistan and India are at it again over the India-controlled section of Kashmir. This week, they both claimed to have shot down military planes belonging to the other side. Both are threatening escalation, which is no laughing matter. They each have a nuclear arsenalRead more…
Dateline: Washington D. C., November 23, 2018. Good old Elijah Cummings, D-Md., will become the Chair of the House Oversight Committee come January. The 67-year-old, who’s been a politician for more than half of his life, announced that the Committee will investigate Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner next year. Despite voter polls warning of adverse consequences, investigating all things Trump is a given now that the Dems control the House. But Cummings’ investigation is especially ill-advised. The Committee will delve intoRead more…
Passengers in cars that are on very long road trips often tire of the journey. A familiar question, especially from the backseat brigade, is, “Are we there yet?” Normal Americans who have been made to suffer through the long, drawn-out Mueller meanderings are asking the same question. The point of that trip is to determine whether the President, or someone from his team, colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary in 2016. Mueller should have reached that destination a whileRead more…
As we know, President Trump cancelled his summit with Kim Jong-un today because of the North’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric and silence on setup logistics. The President’s letter calling off the summit is posted on the Internet for everyone to read. Mr. Trump did leave the meeting door open if NOKO cleans up its act. A lot of commentators see the cancellation as part of the negotiation process rather than an end to it. Those commentators do not, of course, includeRead more…
Living up to one of his main campaign promises, President Trump today withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear agreement. Calling it a “horrible, one-sided deal” and “defective at its core”, Trump delineated the reasons for withdrawal. They include, among others, (1) the inability to inspect military sites, (2) lack of restrictions on ballistic missile development, (3) lack of restrictions on financing international terrorist activities and (4) the prospect of turning the region into a nuclear wasteland as neighboring countriesRead more…
It’s that time of year again. Ring out the old. Ring in the new. These phrases appear in a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson written in the Before Time. Before technology. Before social media. Before grocery stores, canned dog food and late night TV. In the 1850 poem, Ring Out, Wild Bells, Tennyson pretty much savages the old year as a festering cesspool of disappointment. He looks forward, perhaps too optimistically, to the new. Here we are 167 years later.Read more…
