As this Washington Post op-ed says, Alan Gross’s involvement in the US rapprochement with Cuba is a subplot that will soon fade away. To me, however, it illustrates the enormous power of Jews in America and the Jewish lobby in… Read More »Jewish Spies in Cuba
It sounds as if the US will restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, according to news reports. This is something that should have been done years ago. The terrible Helms-Burton Act denying visas to children with even the slightest connection to… Read More »Cuban Relations
I think that to some extent the Congressional torture report is much ado about nothing. I haven’t read the report, but based on TV and press discussions of it, I don’t think that there is much new in it. It… Read More »Congressional Torture Report
The following are my thoughts on this article about calls for a Constitutional Convention. When I grew up in the South, the standard justification for the Civil War was that it was not about slavery, it was about “states’ rights.”… Read More »Constitutional Convention
I was saddened to read the review of the new book on Gen, George Marshall, who is one of my heroes. The New York Times Book Review of George Marshall by the Ungers and Hirshson is critical of Marshall and… Read More »Unfavorable Book on Gen. George Marshall
I can’t find an American news network that has worldwide coverage even close to matching Aljazeera’s. I watched the main news summaries on several American morning shows – Morning Joe, Good Morning America, CBS Morning. None of them mentioned the… Read More »Bad News
Jewish screaming about the horrors of the Holocaust and the evil indifference of the Allies in not coming to their aid soon enough has obscured the important role of the Soviet Union in winning World War II. If Hitler had… Read More »Soviets and the Holocaust
To function well, capitalism requires a free market. Markets in America are becoming progressively less free as they become more oligopolistic. Antitrust is basically dead. Mergers and acquisitions are becoming more frequent and much larger,… Read More »Oligarchy versus Free Markets
The recent elections point out how corrupting the influence of 501(C)(4) organizations is. The organizations are the means of protecting the use of dark money in elections which cannot be traced to any individual or organization. The IRS was right… Read More »Problems with 501(c)(4) Organizations
I am disgusted by US policy in the Middle East. It appears to be the US policy to overthrow every government and replace it with chaos. We have created an enormous, fertile breeding ground for terrorism. Afghanistan pre-9/11 was a… Read More »Chaos in the Middle East