It鈥檚 fitting that the Civil War generation was the first to observe Memorial Day. The war was so awful and the slaughter went on for such a long time, it only seems rightLetters written from southern battlefields arrived days, sometimes weeks, later in homes across the North, carrying word of ...
Well, it looks like The Great Dealmaker dealt himself a bad hand.Mr. Trump frequently berates his predecessors (Obama, Bush, and Clinton) for their lack of deal-making skills at bringing Korean strongman Kim Jong Un to heel.It turns out he's no better than them in that regard.Oh, the stage had ...
A life-long friend asked me, in a confidential tone of voice: 鈥淲hat do you think of Trump?鈥滻t turns out she is a Trump fan. I asked what she liked about the 45th president of the United States.She liked that he wanted to build a wall on the border with Mexico. 鈥淢y family came here ...
If there鈥檚 a Nobel Fleece Prize, you might consider that.President Trump has been basking in the glow of his newfound friendship with that North Korean fellow he used to call 鈥淟ittle Rocketman.鈥滿r. Trump brags that his 鈥渕aximum pressure campaign鈥� has humbled Kim Jong Un into putting ...
We live amidst a clutter of events so dense that it鈥檚 hard to tell what鈥檚 important and what鈥檚 not. A few examples:The decision by the United States to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been posited as a Middle East game changer. It may be, or not.This week representatives ...
It looks like Donald Trump has met his match.Since he was a young New York City businessman in the early 1970鈥檚, he鈥檚 benefited by exhibiting one skill; when you鈥檙e under attack, don鈥檛 defend yourself -- attack back.He鈥檇 learned that from his 鈥渇ixer鈥� at the time, Roy Cohn.Cohn had ...