I notice a number of new things politically that happened while I was out of it. First and foremost: “President Trump.”

Wow.

Yes, I was tracking on election night, and I clearly remember one startling momemt. I had been following different states, and it seemed that Donald Trump had no chance because all of California’s 50+ electors would ( Read more... )

I’m seeing a lot of leftists defending Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama by attacking Ronald Reagan. A typical parry goes “What about your boy Reagan who negotiated with terrorists?”

The first thing I’d observe about this is that…( Read the rest of this entry » )

President Obama, speaking at the Summit of the Americas last month, made a couple of intriguing statements.

Perhaps President Correa has more confidence than I do in distinguishing between bad press and good press.  There are a whole bunch of press that I think is bad, mainly because it criticizes me, but they continue to speak out in the United ( Read more... )

One topic I am thinking about is the farcical kabuki dance surrounding the Iran sanctions regime. T^he lawmakesr pretend that they are going to be tough about the sanctions. Obama pretends that he will be tough about the sanctions. But in fact we effectively released them more than a year ago.( Read the rest of this entry » )

The US, specifically the Obama administration, is helping Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons in many ways:

• The sanctions have effectively ended, so Iran is now flush with cash to acquire nuclear assistance.
• The recent discovery that Iran appears to have 400% more uranium-processing centrifuges than we thought should have reset the deal. Instead, Obama ( Read more... )

Well, that was annoying. I wrote a rather long article from memory, posted it as private so that I could retrieve some links and populate it (and clean it up), then spent a couple of hours in that cleanup process, including an extensive reorganization of it ( Read more... )

The president of Iran, long noted for his hard-line stance against the West and Israel, is now a "moderate" (by comparison to the real powers) -- and he is fighting to stay in power. The cause: a man named Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (also spelled Mashaii in some sources ( Read more... )

In Bahrain, protesters and revolutionaries including the Muslim Brotherhood are pieces being manipulated by Iran, in an effort ultimately aimed at toppling their old arch-rival Saudi Arabia. Knocking down Bahrain's rulers will put them that much closer to removing the Sauds.The Iranians clearly benefit from an uprising in Bahrain. It places the U. ( Read more... )

The interview between Katie Couric and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was interesting. Secretary Rice kept her calm demeanor while Ms. Couric started out with a falsehood and then insisted on that Sec. Rice say what would have happened if she'd known earlier what she knew later:( Read more... )

There is much in the news about Venezuela and Iran and Russia. While many people are complaining about the Iranian missile base in Venezuela (that may well get the range to hit US cities), it's worth keeping in mind that all of this is being provided or guided by our Russian friends ( Read more... )