Instead of just criticizing the presidential debate moderators after the fact, I’ve decided to suggest a few questions for them to ask on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. I don’t know if the questions will be good for ratings, but I’d like to know the candidates’ answers to them. 1. Nearly all of you have […]
In a survey of Americans released Friday, December 11, Gallup found that “Americans’ confidence in the federal government’s ability to protect citizens from act of terrorism has dropped to a new low of 55%.” Americans’ concern that they could become victims of terrorism is trending up substantially, reaching just nine points below the high of 59% registered […]
Donald Trump wins again. Oh, he’s still not going to be president. His new offensive — coming out for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration and travel to the U.S. — won’t get him any closer to taking over the White House. But he has once again succeeded in taking over the news […]
Vladmir Putin isn’t challenging U.S. leadership in the Middle East, President Obama declared in an interview with 60 Minutes filmed on October 6 and broadcast on October 11, “and the fact that [Russia and Iran] had to [send troops to Syria] is not an indication of strength, it’s an indication that their strategy did not work.” In a […]
Syria has been at the heart of much of the lingering turmoil of the Arab Spring. Fighting there has spilled over into Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Upwards of 250,000 people – probably more like 300,000 – have died. ISIS drew its first breaths as currently constituted in Syria. None of this need have […]