I’ve never particularly cared for the phrase “another Vietnam” when describing a foreign policy situation. That war was so controversial and unpopular it makes it difficult to have a fair-minded discussion on any new conflict if it gets compared to Vietnam. Nevertheless, I was reading an article online recently and the parallels were quite unsettling. […]
Another Vietnam? Again? Read More »
Much has been written recently about the confrontation between The Obama Administration and Fox News. The White House doesn’t like the slant of Fox’s coverage, and the Administration is retaliating. Fox has been frozen out of interviews, and it has been criticized for being more of a mouthpiece and research arm of the Republican Party
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Every President ends up being measured against history. Whether the measurement winds up looking positive or negative is based on a combination of what the President does, what fate hands him, and the political outlook of the person doing the measuring. Liberals said that if Bill Clinton had gotten national health care reform passed, he
Barack Obama and History Read More »
Senator John Ensign, a Republican from Nevada, is married, but he had an affair with a married woman. He arranged payments for her and allegedly used his influence to try to line up work for her husband. Was it to compensate the man for wrongs done to him or get him out of the house?
John Ensign and Charles Rangel. Birds of a Feather? Read More »
Floridian Alan Grayson, a Democrat in the House of Representatives, got some face time on CNN and MSNBC after standing up in the House and saying that Republicans want people to “die quickly” when they get sick. Such comments were apparently not just a heat-of-the-moment type of thing–Grayson brought posters to illustrate his point. He
Quality Leadership and Civility in Washington? Nope, None of the Above. Read More »
