The Hong Kong Demonstrators Cannot Win Against Beijing Most of them know that China will never accept a political defeat
WASHINGTON – As I look at the developing story of the extremely large Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, my sense...
Category: Politics
At The Root Of the Hong Kong Protests: Economic Prosperity Is Founded On Political Freedom Hong Kong people want real democracy. China wants to control Hong Kong politics
WASHINGTON – Will the Hong Kong protesters demanding true democratic elections for the special status territory win in the end?...
Major FAA Facility Disabled By Just One Person – US Air Traffic In Chaos If one disgruntled former employee can destroy, all by himself, a major air traffic control facility, imagine the damage that may be caused by trained terrorists targeting critical US infrastructure
WASHINGTON – Just one (mentally imbalanced, it seems) disgruntled contractor, (his name is Brian Howard), upset because he had...
Obama’s “Ferguson Remarks” In His UN Speech Provide Ammunition To America-Haters Bad idea to place in the same sentence slaughter in the Middle East and one killing in America
WASHINGTON – In an otherwise good UN speech (September 24, 2014) focused on the need to fight for international law...
The Roots Of Islamic Fundamentalism Are In The Crisis Of the Arab World We can and should fight against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. But we cannot defeat radicalism through bombing campaigns
WASHINGTON – Denmark, a NATO country, just joined the fight against ISIL, (also ISIS or IS) in Iraq. We are...
Have Zero Interest Rates Created Another Wall Street Bubble? Stock market valuation inflated by artificially low interest rates. Investors have no other place to go
WASHINGTON – The real threat against America may not be terror attacks against the homeland engineered by ISIL, after...
Public School Teachers Send Their Own Kids To Private Schools Those who run the system know how bad it is. And so they protect their own children children from it
WASHINGTON – US public schools are so bad that many public schools teachers –that is those who have first hand...
The Long War Against The Islamic State Compared to the Kosovo air campaign of 1999, the current US-led military effort is very modest. At this rate, it will take years to "degrade and destroy" ISIL
WASHINGTON – President Obama, now acting in conjunction with a newly formed Arab coalition, (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE,...
Man Made Global Warming? Not So Sure Anymore US engaged in a major energy policy shift to combat a problem that may not be what we are told
WASHINGTON – Until a few years ago there was a semi-universal consensus on “global warming”. It was settled that...
Without Access To A Good Education America’s Poor Will Stay Poor Entitlement programs and subsidies do not provide a real path out of poverty
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama won re-election in 2012 largely on the promise that, with him as president, all the existing...