What's an ally worth? Plenty, if you're in a foxhole or storming a beach with one. The same is true if, as a U.S. soldier, you had a native-guide ally on your team in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan in the treacherous months and years after 9/11. Not so much if you are a member of ...
Donald Trump acts like there's no tomorrow. How else to explain the fact that he's willfully squandered the goodwill of at least some of the people who elected and then sustained him early in his second presidency? A recent poll - a Pew poll released last week - places Trump's job approval at ...
This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge in 1775, firing the "shots heard 'round the world" and starting the war for independence that marked the emergence of a new world order - that order being ...
There's a famous photograph of Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn wearing an Indian chief's headdress. Coolidge was a popular fella; he got away with it. Elon Musk, appearing last week in Wisconsin on the eve of that state's Supreme Court election, donned a cheese hat. He must have ...
What is it with Elon Musk and Social Security? He clearly has a problem with the retirement account. Is he trying to cripple or even destroy the system that provides incomes for millions of older Americans? It sure looks like it. Then, again, he and President Trump may be up to some other ...
In his own Gettysburg address - this in 1939 - President Franklin Roosevelt said, "It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done day to day." Of course, FDR likely ...
