I’m disappointed that the education tax proposal, Amendment 66, did not pass yesterday. It basically means that Colorado has thrown in the towel. Coloradans have said that China won. Our kids will work for your Chinese kids when they reach… Read More »Education Failure
Everyone is “shocked, shocked” that the US is spying on its allies. Of course almost everyone does it, but almost everyone who does it keeps it a secret. NSA’s failure was not so much spying on Angela Merkel as it… Read More »NSA Incompetence
The last 60 Minutes show on Benghazi reawakened my concern that Republicans are more concerned about shovelling money to their contractor friends than they are about protecting the United States. According to 60 Minutes, the man responsible for protecting the… Read More »Republicans Don’t Love America
This NYT article about the money funding the fight against ObamaCare indicates to me that the fight is more than just against ObamaCare. I think it is a coalition of white conservative groups who oppose Obama and the America he… Read More »The Fight Against ObamaCare
Just for the record, I’m am against a government shutdown. I basically quit the government by retiring from the Foreign Service after the 1995-6 government shutdown. I blame the Republicans. I blamed Newt Gingrich and his Republican followers for the… Read More »Shutdown Is Bad
The UN report on the use of chemical weapons on Syria seems to pretty clearly link the weapons’ use to Assad’s Syrian government. The rocket delivery system in particular seems to rule out the rebels. While it might not clearly… Read More »Syria Did It
It turns out that the big bankers are Reagan’s real welfare queens driving their Cadillacs or more likely their BMWs or Mercedes. When Larry Summers dropped out of the Fed Chair race, the stock market went up, because they thought… Read More »Bankers Are the Welfare Queens
While I was Science Counselor at the Amrican Embassy in Warsaw, we worked out a deal whereby Poland would pay part of its debt to the US to an enviornmental fund, Ecofund in English, Ekofundusz in Polish. Just look around… Read More »Ecofund Did Its Job
It seems pretty clear that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, behind their front man Colin Powell, have destroyed the moral authority of the United States by invading Iraq under false pretenses and fake intelligence. Obama now pays the price… Read More »No Moral Authority
President Barak Obama is looking at two types of precedents for his intervention in Syria. There is Bill Clinton who waited too long to intervene in the genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda resulting in thousands of additional deaths. And there… Read More »Don’t Intervene in Syria