NULLIFYING A CHILD’S DEATH (….and sending it into Cold Case limbo) Justice may not have been served in this terrible tragedy, but the constraints of the law had to be observed. That’s the essence of what an Orlando, Florida, jury
QUESTIONING THE RELEVANCY OF THE CONSTITUTION (is an oxymoronic….question) The latest pundit crie du jour is questioning the relevancy of the Constitution. That in itself is an oxymoronic….question! Apparently there are lots of folks who are thinking the same thing.
IT’S OUR 4TH OF JULY PARTY (so let the band play on….while it still can) America loves to have a party, and the 4th of July is its best excuse for having one. In many ways this celebration resembles the
LIKE THE MOUNTIES….THEY FINALLY GOT THEIR MAN (….even if it only took them sixteen years to do it….) The smartest thing James “Whitey” Bulger did, besides skedaddling out of Boston as soon as he found out the law was coming
GOOD MORNING AFGHA….NIS….TAN! (you’re gonna look good….in our rear-view mirrors) Last night, facing up to economic and political realities here at home, President Obama decided to pull the plug on our long haul in Afghanistan. Well….sort of. Pulling some of
THE SYRIAC DISEASE…. (an infection caused by the genus…kleptosaurae) Of all the species of – kleptosaurae – that infest this world of ours few are as virulently dangerous as its… kleptosaurus Hadaddii…which has a greater propensity for indiscriminate slaughter, rape,
YOU CAN TRY TO LEAD GREEKS TO AUSTERITY (but you can’t make any good Hellenes….drink it!) The Euro-zone is in crisis, and the Greeks are the proverbial canary in its financial coal mine, with Portugal, Italy, Spain, and others, not
AFGHANISTAN….LOOKING FOR A DIGNIFIED EXIT (….from a cesspool of nation-building) Ten years ago we charged into Afghanistan like a raging wounded lion, bashing and slashing at anything remotely connected to the Taliban or al Queda. We were there in a
A NEW CHINA SYNDROME IN THE MAKING (from strategic stealth maneuvers to corral oil resources) As the only hard-money power in the world, with a mountainous hoard of cash and gold at its disposal….to throw around as it pleases….there’s a
BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO…. (when your internet capers catch up to you?) Congressman Weiner is the latest of our politicos, and other VIPs, to become ensnared by the stupidity of their internet activities. For supposedly very intelligent