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Just the Horrible Facts
The following excerpt from an AP news report today should need no comment. Surely, the facts speak for themselves: Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip on...
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With Friends Like These…
I keep hearing that Israel is America’s closest ally in the Middle East, but if the Israelis are among the best friends Uncle Sam has, he is in deep trouble. The Israelis are currently heaping...
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He’s in. Bar the Door!
I once knew a lawyer who – when he was really, really drunk – bragged that he represented the Mafia. He said he helped get hundreds of millions of Mob dollars out of Cuba when Castro took over that...
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You, Too, Canada?
When I was a child, America was a world leader in humanitarian projects. Although the government under both Republicans and Democrats sometimes engaged in questionable escapades, Americans were still...
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Bring Them Home!
The death of Major General Harold J. Greene, who was training America’s Afghan “allies,” vividly illustrates the price of prolonging the occupation of that wretched country. General Greene (AP photo...
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A Time to Act
If you’ve been reading these blogs, you know how much I abhor war. I especially loathe war in the Mideast. And war in iraq is about as loathsome as it gets. But sometimes you don’t really have a...
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What’s the UN Doing?
I just learned there’s a “UN mission in Iraq.” Really? What do they do? Why haven’t they stopped ISIS in its tracks, protected the Kurds and rescued the Yazidis? It seems the UN is a shadow of what it...
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Life in a Bubble
Today I will go to Publix, There’s no beer in the fridge, and the cats are running low on Fancy Feast (and the canned salmon I give them as a treat). Those cats! They live better than a lot of people....
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Justice for Foley?
In their preoccupation with the troubles in Ferguson, the media are underplaying another equally disturbing news story – the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the ISIS barbarians. As...
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The UN Steps in – Sort of
I suppose striking at the pocketbooks of terrorists is an effective tactic over the long term, but how I wish the UN could get its act together and become a real world police force. The UN Security...
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Oh No! Not Again!
Don’t tell me we’re headed back to to the days when Americans (and Canadians) built bomb shelters in their basements and hoarded canned foods and other supplies in preparation for the Apocalypse. I...
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A World of Shadows
Responding to my blog on Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, a reader named Eddie commented that: The people of eastern Ukraine voted to separate from the Ukrainian government that was not elected and...
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War and Peace II
This won’t be as long as Tolstoy’s masterpiece and there will be no fresh insights. Everything old is new again, as the song says, so there’s nothing to add that you don’t already know. You know it...
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How Does China Do It?
A Chinese e-commerce company named Alibaba – something like eBay and Amazon wrapped up in one package – set records with its massive multi-billion-dollar IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this...
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An Ugly Alliance
It’s ironic that America finds itself allied with such unsavory characters in a morally motivated crusade against the barbarians of ISIS. From what I know of the Saudi royal family, I wouldn’t put...
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MSNBC is Losing Me
I used to be a faithful MSNBC-TV viewer, but, sadly, we’re drifting apart. And I notice that Sandra is tuning into CNN more and more these days (when she isn’t watching old movies). What happened?...
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Kurds Deserve US Help
I was encouraged by a news report about three young Americans who have gone to Syria to fight. They did not go to join ISIS. They went to join the Kurds and fight ISIS. Of course, if one of them was...
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Facing the Truth
I have been living in a world of make believe for the past six years, and I suspect you have been too. In that rosy world, racism and bigotry were blights of the past, and people had become...
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Yes They Will!
Sandra doesn’t believe the Republicans would really repeal Obamacare. How could they, she asks rhetorically, with so many Americans already benefiting from it? But I’m sure the new Republican Congress...
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Putting the World at Risk
The biggest loser in last Tuesday’s election was the environment. You can bet the new Republican majority will jump at the chance to unleash Old King Coal upon America. I just received an email from...
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