His plan thhat he can take Iran in a year\\ Overconfidence like others in history Never underestimate your enemy, Sun Tzu: “He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents...
Well, how about that. Here’s a moment of truth from Michelle Bachmann. During last night’s GOP debate, she asserted: “But you have to take a look. You– when you look at Newt Gingrich, for...
Paul Ryan has lately taken to defending his plan to, for all intents and purposes, end Medicare. (The article link explains it well.) Last night, Rachel Maddow discussed this in some detail. I agree with...
Newt’s marital high jinx have long fascinated us. Not the divorces as divorces, marriage is complicated, divorce is common. Common as well is the way in which Newt went about those divorces via consistent and...
The news yesterday from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s D.C. forum centered on the GOP’s presidential front runner, Newt Gingrich. Aside from all the candidates’ craven posturing and promising things they know they could not or...
MSNBC just reported: Update, 1:30 p.m. ET: Judge sentences ousted Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison for corruption. And here’s one of the many reasons why from the time he was...
Yesterday, President Obama delivered a major speech in Kansas, in the same city, Osawatomie, where, on August 31, 1910, “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt gave his now immortal New Nationalism speech as part of the dedication of the John...
CNN headlined President Obama’s speech from Osawatomie, Kansas Obama channels Roosevelt’s ‘New Nationalism’, referring to “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 speech, also delivered in Osawatomie, during the opening ceremonies for the John Brown Memorial Park which...
A few days ago i was trying to access a copy of Newt Gingrich’s 1971 doctoral dissertation, Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945-1960. I discovered that a downloadable copy was not easy to find,...
I often don’t follow the mind of Chris Matthews. I don’t keep track, but he appears to change his “favorites list” a bit too often. And consistent, he ain’t. Momentarily attracted to someone, like Dubya, he...
