Many decades ago, the 26 year old version of me became a Marine. Infantry. While things were raging in Beirut in fact. I won't bore you with more on that but note that in the PX and shops surrounding...
It seems former Trump suck-up, Trump CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is back in the news. Frankly I'd forgotten about him. So long ago I'd stopped thinking about him as a possible "rescue candidate" if Trump...
I wonder who's giving Donald Trump his intelligence briefings these days? Gone are the days of bullet pointed lists and pictures, which dominated the top security briefings that he used to have to sit through, bored and annoyed. But...
There are events which are immediately recognized as epochal ones, and the rocket attack launched on Israel in the early morning hours of Saturday when Hamas escalated conflict on the Jewish state was certainly that. This event may not...
President Biden put it perfectly a couple of hours ago. The last time that an American President had to address the American people from the Oval Office with two wars going on that both affected US national interests was...
Early on in his Presidency it was clear Trump was Putin's Puppet. He was openly hostile to NATO and wanted the U.S. out of it. He was also openly disdainful of Europe in general with the sometimes exception of...
A quick suggestion for all of the Democratic mouth breathers and breast thumpers out there who are worried about Biden's poll numbers. As former President Barack Obama told his handlers after he massacred his first debate against Mitt Romney,...
I've resisted writing about the outbreak of war in Israel. Several times today I thought about it and decided with all the moving parts (which I'll get to later) and the problem with getting decent amounts of verifiable information...
God must love imbeciles, he made so many of them. And they almost all wear MAGA hats. If pocket moppet Ron Pissantis is in the process of rolling out his new, re-energized, trimmed down, cash starved 2024 GOP Presidential campaign, he's...
Obviously there are millions of Israelis who support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom, after all, has occupied that office longer than any of his predecessors, and whom, despite credible charges of fraud and receiving bribes from wealthy business types...

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