Malaysia Flight 370 or Russia and Ukraine?
Malay flight 370 is some kind of random event. However interesting as sheer narrative, it has no long term consequences. Events in Ukraine, Russia, Crimea are evolving, potentially world changing...
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Imagine if there were a security alliance, encompassing most of Latin America, including Central America. Imagine if the dominant military power in that alliance were Russia, with army and air force...
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The Democrats' Obama Problem
With the loss of a close House special election in Florida, the entry of several strong Republican contenders in close Senate races, and continuing fallout from flaws in the Accordable Care Act,...
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Greg Abbott and the Politics of Anger
The accident that changed Greg Abbott's life was so improbable as to be almost statistically immeasurable. A healthy 27 year-old, he was jogging through the Houston community of River Oaks in 1984 when...
View ArticleObama's Economic Interference
There have been many criticisms of President Obama, culminating in his new-low 41 percent approval rating, as reported by a recent WSJ/NBC News poll. Of all of them, the most frustrating may well be...
View ArticleThe Dilemma of Parallel Investigations
Closing entrance lanes to the George Washington Bridge was supposed to be a rather easy and simple task for Governor Christie's administration. But what had been envisioned as an almost childish...
View ArticleRegulating Regulations: New Rubio Proposal Flawed
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a potential presidential candidate in 2016, is trying to stimulate a serious discussion about the cost of government regulation and its impact on our economy. Rubio proposed...
View ArticleTwo Little Words That Can End Suffering and Restore a Little Sanity to the...
The sound of the circular firing squad is getting louder as two different strategies are creating a rift in the pro immigration reform movement. There's a victory in the battle to demolish the...
View ArticleWhat The Left Can Learn From The Lego Movie
Co-Written with Conner Kennedy The left has spilled pages of ink and innumerable pixels wondering why the middle class votes against its interests, debating the effect of the Democratic Leadership...
View ArticleWhen the Government Compounds Crimes Rather Than Fights Them: Mortgage Fraud
We were all victims of the financial crisis that began in 2007 (not 2008), but some of us suffered more than others. And, hundreds of millions of us are still living with the painful aftermath as its...
View ArticleGovernment Declares BP a 'Responsible' Contractor: Workers and Taxpayers Beware
A scant five days before the Department of Interior opens a new round of bids for oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the EPA has blinked, pronouncing BP, the incorrigible corporate scofflaw of the new...
View ArticleDisidencia Herejía
A couple of weeks ago The New Yorker published an 11-page piece on the latest depredations of Daniel Ortega, a Nicaraguan revolutionary who took control of his country in 1979 as a radical leftist and...
View ArticleRekindling Military-to-Military Ties Between the U.S. and Myanmar
Less than a month after this nation won its independence from Great Britain in 1948, the Communist Party of Burma declared war against the Burmese government. Fighting between the two sides raged for...
View Article4 Ways to Solve the Looming Retirement Crisis
Retirement savings are key to building wealth, strengthening the middle class, and building a greater measure of financial security for Americans. Current US policies reward employers, financial...
View ArticleCalifornia Republicans Struggle to Prep for Primary 11 Weeks From Now
Governor Jerry Brown continues to have the "luck of the Irish" on this St. Patrick's Day. California Republicans gathered over the weekend just past for the first of their two annual state party...
View ArticleSpecter of Terrorism Rises from Missing MH 370
Jakarta, March 17 -- With nefarious intent exposed in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Asian intelligence experts and law enforcement officials are now examining a growing possibility...
View ArticleWhen Vice Presidents Run for President
I write this blog in reaction to a recent CNN blog titled, "Why Biden Won't Win." The article's main thesis is that vice presidents have a low success rate of winning an election, historically...
View ArticleThe Goat and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations
On its face, the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's demand that as part of a final peace agreement with the Palestinians, the Palestinians declare that they recognize Israel as a Jewish State....
View ArticleLessons From Ukraine's Crisis
The referendum that occurred on Sunday in Crimea was a flagrant violation of Ukraine's constitution. And it was held amidst a Russian military occupation supposedly mounted to defend ethnic Russians on...
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