Ronald Reagan would have been 100 this past week.  The media folks have made a big deal of the anniversary of his birth, with a major special on HBO and even a PBS close-up of his second wife, Nancy, who still survives, seven years after her husband’s death.  Conservatives treated the event with all […]

           Foreign policy is a tough business, especially when you are the world’s only real superpower.             If the policy makers in Washington didn’t understand that fact before the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt rocked the world this week and last, they surely must at least be thinking on it now.  What’s a country supposed to do […]

            The President has done his thing; the Republican and Tea Party spokespersons have done theirs; now it’s time to get serious.             I’m referring, of course, to this week’s show-biz charade and the accompanying side shows, to wit: President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress and the retorts/responses by Republican Congressman Paul […]

            I will readily confess that I understand very little about what happened in Tucson on the morning of January 8.  The little I do know can be summed up in these two sentences:  A madman killed six people and wounded thirteen others in a wanton shooting spree during a “meet and greet” that was […]