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If one means the United States in saying “America’ (one needs to disambiguate the term as the U.S.A. or one would need to default to North and South America and… Read more

I wondered if the Clintons were more ethical at practicing law than Michael Cohen. Ever since F.D.R. used law like silly putty as a lawyer, Presidents with law degrees have… Read more

Armistice instead of unconditional surrender? Why in the world would that have happened? World War One ended with an armistice. Patton said that was a great mistake at the time.… Read more

No. Sanders isn’t a good potential shelved product for the Democrat market. He would lose. Democrats want someone like Oprah Winfree or Eric Holder or maybe someone with 1/32 Cherokee… Read more

Instead of letting things slide the President should build a new icebreaker as well as a vast hovercraft designed to live in the Arctic. Alaska could use such capacity anytime.… Read more

Christianity has several theological and ecclesiastic challenges to meet. In a way Christianity has experienced some of the same difficulties that adversely impacted newspapers and network television from ubiquitous mass… Read more

The U.S.A. didn’t enter the Vietnam War because of the Cuban Communist revolution near Florida. The Cold War began much earlier, as early as the first Russian revolution when the… Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court is comprised of elites, largely from Harvard, that should just make decisions among more or less settled social issues. The founders never intended the court to… Read more

America’s two-party political system gives voters the chance every two years to decide who and what they hate and to vote against the vile party they hate more. In 2016… Read more

The balance of power paradigm is a general historical guideline rather than a fixed rule. One can find exceptions to generalities. Generally though, if there is an existing balance of… Read more