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War, Peace and the Next President Feb. 21, 2016
When President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election in 1916, as Europeans slaughtered each other on an... Read More
Merkel's Bold Move and a Needed Correction Jan. 03, 2016
Time magazine made a solid news judgment in naming German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 "Person ... Read More
The President's Speech Dec. 08, 2015
When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to br... Read More
Stop Tying Terrorist Attacks to Unrelated Issues Dec. 08, 2015
Traumatic national events often lead promoters of various causes to attempt a product tie-in. The te... Read More
Are Trump and Putin Right? Dec. 01, 2015
Monday, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosted a spirited discussion with Donald Trump on whether he was right... Read More
Stumbling to War With Russia? Nov. 27, 2015
Turkey's decision to shoot down a Russian warplane was a provocative and portentous act. That Sukhoi... Read More
America's Heart Has Room for Syrian Refugees -- The Pilgrims Taught Us How Nov. 27, 2015
As we celebrate the Thanksgiving pilgrims, it's time to set a place at the table for Syrian refugees... Read More
The Bogus Refugee Holocaust Comparison Nov. 25, 2015
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D. - Ill., is playing the Holocaust card in defending Barack Obama's insistence... Read More
Realism in Fighting the Islamic State Nov. 22, 2015
After a bloody series of terrorist attacks, the natural impulse is to respond with overwhelming forc... Read More
This Column Is Exactly What the Islamic State Wants Nov. 20, 2015
President Barack Obama was in the Philippines this week getting worked up about the only thing that ... Read More
Obama Gets Really Angry ... at Americans Nov. 20, 2015
Three days after the Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans were primed to hear their p... Read More
We Are Already at War on the Ground Nov. 20, 2015
President Barack Obama has a choice: He can either destroy the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq... Read More
In Wake of Paris Terror, Obama Seems At Sea Nov. 20, 2015
"Ich bin ein Berliner." — John F. Kennedy in West Berlin, 1963, to a cheering multitude. Give... Read More
Blocking Refugees Isn't the Answer Nov. 20, 2015
Shutting our borders to Syrian refugees is a simpleminded solution to terrorist attacks that might u... Read More
Why ISIS Needs the 'Useful Idiots' Who Demonize Muslims Nov. 20, 2015
When France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said after last Friday's attacks in Paris, "nous sommes en... Read More
Syrian, Go Home Nov. 19, 2015
President Barack Obama wants the United States to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees next year — b... Read More
Paris Attacks Could Impel Sanders Nov. 18, 2015
The Paris attacks could have the effect of empowering the Bernie Sanders campaign and confronting Hi... Read More
Hit the Road, Toad. No Different People Wanted Nov. 18, 2015
Most of the refugees from Syria do not look like us. They do not look Western. They look different. ... Read More
Hillary's Appetite for War Nov. 15, 2015
The United States has been at war every day since October 2001, when we invaded Afghanistan after th... Read More
Another Ground War in the Middle East? Nov. 04, 2015
There is a country in the Middle East ruled by a secular authoritarian regime — a state sponso... Read More
