Trump Blows Kisses to Putin, but Misses, In Century old Stand-off in Helsinki

" A boisterous press conference followed, leaving reporters and public listeners baffled. What was accomplished, if anything?"

The Great Woolly-Woolly of Wah-Hoo-Wah Was a Greater Big Bully

The king of beasts on the grounds of the University of Virginia until 1948 was a hair-raising effigy of a shaggy Siberian Woolly Mammoth, in Brooks Hall of natural history. We’ll call the creature the Great Woolly of Wah-Hoo-Wah, to stress its renown.

Heroic in WW II, Ike Won 34th Presidency and Sparked Biggest Bull Market in US History

The American president who inspired investors to drive up the stock market more than any other American president ever has.

John Le Carre’s Career as Secret Agent Adds Exciting Realism to His 23rd Novel

"In a surprise finale that causes Bachmann to lose control and smash his car with an auto wrench repeatedly—a cool agent out of control, desperately needing to come in from the cold. He senses deep down 'The Americans' have struck again."

Were 18 Revolutions of Arab Spring Only Beginning of Present Middle East Turmoil?

Yogi Berra, the oft-quoted and more often confusing Hall of Fame baseball catcher previously of the New York Yankees, famously said, “This is like déjà vu all over again.” He was probably talking about striking out for the third time in a crucial World Series game, or something equally galling to a baseball player of his stature. With Yogi, …

Has U.S Become a “Chickenhawk Nation”? James Fallows Thinks So

If the U.S. is the finest fighting force in the world, why has it lost wars since 9/11?

Is Super Business Cycle Casting Shadow over Obama’s Legacy?

Giant K-wave Visualized by Russian Economist May Explain Sluggish U.S. Economy President Obama has apparently morphed into the political Lone Ranger, going it alone by firing silver bullets of executive and quasi-executive orders, from his secret Colt 45. Arch conservatives might call him the Lone Danger, in pursuing this lonesome strategy. But he’s worried about …

Judging By Results, Current Arab Spring Is Another Winter of Discontent

Egypt's Revolution Gives the Military Caste Officers a Chance to Regroup and Return to Power Ancient passions in the Middle East, fanned into fierce swirling winds by yearnings for democracy, again erupted in the Muslim-dominated lands as the first decade of the new millennium closed. Even Egypt, the eternal land of the pharaohs and pyramids …

Are Opponents of ObamaCare Using TV’S Irascible Doc Martin in New Conspiracy?

This posting reveals the possibility of a sinister danger to our American democracy, and is meant especially for extreme conspiracy theorists ─ that is, folks who think of movie producer Oliver Stone as a mild-mannered Pollyanna. These suspicious souls are hungry for a new cause célèbre to chew on. As they know, it is time …

Nazi Germany’s “Flying Wing” Might Have Changed Outcome of WW 2

Goring's Miracle Plane Passed Flight Tests Six Months before War Ended Historians of World War 2 are in general agreement that Hitler's Germany was far ahead of America and her Allies, in the development of advanced weaponry. Among its wunderkind tools of war was an airplane known as the Horton-Ho 229, a fighter/bomber which in …