Monthly Archives: June 2013

While checking the definition of the word coward, I came up with some not-so-surprising results that reminded me of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden who is currently holed up at a Moscow air terminal’s transit section waiting for an opportunity to flee … Continue reading →

Why do so many people think little or no good about the new universal health care (or health care reform) law, otherwise known as Obamacare? Is it because the law’s principle nemesis – Republicans – are the only ones speaking … Continue reading →

The failure on the part of the House of Representatives to renew the farm policy law is both a sign of poor leadership on the part of the Republican Speaker of the House and an extremely divided Republican party caucus. … Continue reading →

In this new, modern world the laws on immigration – rules that control the movement of people between national boundaries – should be more pragmatic. A nation’s geographic boundaries should only define that country’s physical size and location and not … Continue reading →

President Barack Obama this week (June 21) in Berlin proposed that the United States and Russia reduce their nuclear weapons arsenals. Under the New START Treaty, each country has about 1,500 nuclear missiles and bombs. The president proposes that each … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden – the ex-NSA contractor/employee who leaked information that the government agency was spying on U.S. citizens – will definitely pay and pay dearly for his treasonous acts against the U.S. and the American people. While some Americans may be grateful … Continue reading →

Republicans in the House of Representatives passed the most “far-reaching ban on abortion” ever, a bill that also easily becomes the most serious assault on “women’s constitutional right to choose.” Hundreds of hours were spent by the lower house in … Continue reading →

There she goes again: former Republican Party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has made one more of her “typically Sarah bone-bone” remarks. This time, she was addressing an issue which the whole world knows she’s completely ignorant about. In a … Continue reading →

The wild celebrations that broke out in the streets of Iran (Saturday, June 15) following the landslide victory of reformist Hasan Rowhani in that country’s presidential elections may be a little too presumptuous. The expectation is that Rowhani will cause a … Continue reading →

There is a lot of talk about the high cost of President Barack Obama’s forthcoming week-long trip to sub-Saharan Africa. The president and his entourage leave June 26 for the region where he will visit Dakar in Senegal, Johannesburg and … Continue reading →