While most political views are focused on 2020, a longer lens to 2024 and beyond may be more informative as to the future directio...

Turns out I am part of the wave Kamala Harris is surfing towards the lead of Democratic Party presidential hopefuls.  Right before...

Chum is filling the waters surrounding Joe Biden, bringing in political sharks eager to rip his candidacy to shreds. At times, inadver...

I wonder what his good friend Bibi is telling Donald Trump about the need to show strength in the face of unprovoked attack, about the...

With Donald Trump a) threatening to totally annihilate Iran, b) obstructing congressional inquiries by ordering subordinates past ...

In life, it is said, timing is everything. The future of Donald Trump’s presidency, it may be said, hinges on timing. If one b...

I cannot denounce Donald Trump’s decision to punish Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for his alleged chemical weapons attack on rebels and...

Summertime and the living is easy, especially when you go more than a week between blog postings. So consider this entry a catch-up for se...

Next January 20th the president-elect will swear the following oath of office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully exe...

I was one of those political observers who opined Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency would self-destruct in the aftershock of his ...

Rightfully so, the nation for the last two weeks has been engrossed in several dialogues—on race, on marriage equality, on Pope Francis an...

Fifty years ago, two days ago to be precise, the film version of The Sound of Music debuted. It became, arguably, one of the most cherish...

We didn’t know precisely what happened 49 years ago in the dark waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. We were told North Vietnamese gunships engag...

I’m a big fan of Jon Stewart, as anyone who reads this blog regularly knows. But someone needs to tell him that hosting The Daily ...

There’s an exegesis that major calamities suffered by the Jewish people occurred through the ages on the ninth day of the month of Av, kn...

After almost an hour of watching everyone but me win, with only one white, 25-cent chip of my original $20 stake in front of me, I finally ...

Let’s see now. Here’s a story with possibilities. The Jewish people are threatened with annihilation by a mad man from Iran. He’s building a...

Almost everyone agrees the linchpin issue in the upcoming presidential election will be the economy. No argument there. But I do have an opi...

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. That statement, attributed to H.L. Mencken, is as applicable...