Pew Research Center: 72% of Black Children Raised By Single Mothers
WASHINGTON – The Pew Research Center just provided fresh data about the American family. Well, we sort of knew...
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden Proposes Corporate Tax Reform
WASHINGTON – In a clear and totally non-partisan WSJ op-ed piece, (We Must Stop Driving Businesses Out of the...
After The Release Of The National Climate Assessment Report, Forget About Approval Of The TransCanada Keystone Pipeline
WASHINGTON – The US Government just released the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment. As you can imagine, the emphasis is...
America Shall Not “Pay Any Price” To Protect Ukraine’s Territorial Integrity
WASHINGTON – The Moscow-inspired and Moscow supported Ukrainian crisis is slowly morphing into something resembling a civil war. Whether...
America’s Economy: Stagnation and Inequality, A Bad Mix
WASHINGTON – Capitalism is still by far the best economic system we know. But it is not as good...
Putin Deployed 50,000 Russian Close To Ukraine, Obama Sent 600 US Paratroopers To Poland And The Baltic States
WASHINGTON – With cause, The Economist worries about America’s determination to stand up against the bad guys. (Putin in...
The Kiev Provisional Government Cannot Win, All By Itself, Against Putin
WASHINGTON – The difference between the failed separatist fight that Chechnya started and lost several years ago and the...
Benghazi Tragedy: Incompetence and Callousness
WASHINGTON – It has hard to get the general public to focus on the attack on the US Consulate...
Almost Impossible To Discuss Poverty and Race In America
WASHINGTON – Old and encrusted socio-economic problems related to race issues have become intractable in America. In large part this...
On Signal Hill, In Newfoundland, Marconi’s Legacy
St. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, (a few years ago) – The young professor took me for a visit in the afternoon....