THE PRESDIDENT’S FAREWELL ADDRESS (…a valedictorian oration to the faithful) President Obama chose to make his farewell speech from Chicago, his home town, rather than following recent precedents of making it at a joint session of Congress. Which was his
THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN FEUD ENDURES (…as common sense efforts for peace fade away) For nearly three quarters of a century now the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has defied all attempts at resolving it. The primary cause for that failure being neither party to
CLOSING OUT THIS TOPSY-TURVY YEAR (…in which the world turned upside-down and went to hell in the proverbial hand basket) So long…and farewell 2016…you won’t be missed. We’re closing out this topsy-turvy year…in which the world…turned upside-down and went to
PEACE ON EARTH…GOODWILL TO ALL… (…are in very short supply and have become a forgotten ideal) The recent events in Berlin, Germany, and in Ankara, Turkey, along with the barbarities going on in Aleppo and other parts of Syria, all
TAKING A SHOT TO TRANSITION FROM AN ERA OF SUPER-NANNY STATISM… (…by moving into a brave new world of hard-money corporate style governance) When it comes to wanting “change”, we Americans tend to go to extremes by throwing the baby
THE LAST OF THE GLAMOUR BABES OF YESTERYEAR… (…from a bevy of Gabor genes) Zsa Zsa Gabor just passed away a few days ago. Estimated to be 99 (maybe even 100) years old) she was the last of the glamour
Y’WANNA SIDE ORDER OF FAKE EMBASSY… (…to go with your Fake News?) There are a lot of outrageous scam operations going on in this world of ours today, but the one we’ve just come across as a small sidebar news
DESECRATION OF THE FLAG…. (…and of the republic…for which it stands) Flag burning, and other marks of disrespect for our national emblem, have been the source of contentious debates almost as fierce as those we have had about the right
Vol. XII – Issue No. 1 – Jan 2017
THE PUTIN-TRUMP VERSION OF AS TIME GOES BY (…a mutual greed for profit from power and glory) Romance has nothing to do with this version of that old song. It’s a question about their motives for having what seems to
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