Buying a Bigger Club
As Russia infiltrates our online infrastructure and as China quietly buys up the Third World, America seeks to achieve invulnerability by creating a massive military force. That’s like a cave man shaping a...
Tagged: US military spending
A Romney Presidency Could be Catastrophic
This is not your grandfather’s world. It is drastically different, and one of the things that have changed is the concept of independent national economies. Mitt Romney must know this. But he panders to deluded Americans...
Obama Interjects Some Sanity in the Madness
In the midst of a mad, mad period in America’s history, comes a report that indicates President Obama is keeping his sanity while (as the poet Kipling might have said) those about him are...
The Big Lie About Social Security and Medicare
I can’t figure out why Republicans want to torpedo Social Security. I know, they say the program doesn’t pay for itself and – with Medicare and Medicaid – it’s the reason the United States...
Throwing Good Money After Bad – Again and Again
I am dumbfounded by the American public’s tolerance for military wastefulness. It has been going on throughout my lifetime and instead of being addressed, it has been allowed not just to continue but to...