American Corporatism At Its Best
Robert Redford and James Caan were right on the money.
Back in 1975 my fiancée prodded me to see two movies. Little did I know back then these two cinema releases were very foretelling about our nation’s future.
In Three Days Of The Condor, Robert Redford, played a maverick CIA technician on the death list of the agency he serves. Cliff Robertson played the agent-in-charge of the CIA hit. The two argue next to the New York Time Building about whether an American army…
Asymmetric Warfare And Apple Pie
Asymmetric warfare is as alien to average 21st century Americans as the Martian landscape.
Yet it is a term more readily heard in the media nowadays promulgated by the nation’s defense planners and used quite frequently in reference to the war on terrorism.
Asymmetric warfare is simply the application of unique, creative, and unconventional methods with the intention to defeat a numerically and technologically superior enemy. It takes many forms including combat and p…
Bush Using Darfur, Aids To Salvage Failed Presidency
Rap Artist Kanye West had this to say: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” — Said during a Hurricane Katrina telethon.
After the Katrina disaster many polls indicated that large majorities of blacks believed that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina would have been considerably speedier had those trapped in New Orleans been rich and white, and that the slow response was an indication of continuing racial inequity in this country.
Most whites disagreed….
China Is Really Number Two
China’s coming on strong while our leaders chase the terrorists across the globe.
Recently much international press fanfare was generated acknowledging that China had replaced Great Britain as the world’s fourth largest economy.
Nobody argues nowadays that China has the highest growth rate of industrialized economics posting annual growth rates in excess of 8.5 percent according to The International Monetary Fund. The World Bank predicted recently that China’s economy w…
President Bush – Contrasting The Decision Making Skills Of Jfk And George W. Bush
Presidents of the United States can only make decisions based on the information they are getting from the people and other sources that are available to them. Different Presidents obtain that data flow in different ways. This is particularly important because the events we are dealing with are so much more crucial than other Presidents may be dealing with. Iraq, North Korea, high gasoline prices, competitive position versus China, long-term deficits are all huge problems tha…
Real Conservative Don’t Drink Lattes, Or Do They?
If Barry Goldwater were alive today to witness the new transformation of the GOP, he would grow a beard and become a bead vendor on Constitution Avenue in Washington.
While in Indianapolis recently this author noted numerous well dressed business people standing in line waiting to buy coffee. Mostly latte or some contortion thereof was ordered. This city is known for its GOP leaning conservative nature.
Many were rapidly moving in the line talking conservative politics …
The Nuclear Option And The 4th Crusade
“American nuclear forces on global alert” is what CBS dished out as this author awoke on that chilly October morning in 1973 while attending Madison College in Virginia.
This was Nixon’s response to Brezhnev’s announcing the potential deployment of Soviet airborne troops into the midst of the Yom Kippur War in an effort to stop Israel’s advance toward Cairo.
It was both amazing and amusing watching the Soviet’s quickly back tract in the face of stern American resolve.
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This Is Not Your Dad’s Republican Party Anymore
Stock markets are strange because they reflect the sum total of all our hopes, fears and prejudices at the end of each day. Every so often something big comes along that can have very strong influence on the stock market, and the direction the market is going to take. Bear markets when they do come, come out of nowhere. Everybody is surprised by them, but once they happen, the pundits have what seem to be perfectly reasonable explanations for why they happen.
I submit to y…
Lincoln Group-Republican Party, CIA spies?-Garfield Media Talking Head?
More musings about a potentially developing conspiracy involving planted news stories in Iraq, the Pentagon, and the intricate web of players that seem to indicate a web that reaches into the White House.
Privacy Versus Security
Lately the far left, the Democrats, certain left wing celebrities, ultra liberal newspaper reporters and editors and network news reporters and commentators have been ranting and raving about how President Bush has illegally taken away our right to privacy by signing an Executive Order allowing the National Security Agency to intercept certain communications between people of interest, in the United States, and people in certain other countries. Many of the foregoing are even saying that the President should be impeached. Some are comparing him to Richard Nixon or worse.