June 5, 2020

Preventing Another Viral 9/11

   Bottom line up front – the COVID-19 pandemic was a disaster for our economy, signaling that U.S. needs the scientific equivalent of a counterterrorism unit. The U.S. intelligence agencies had neither the expertise nor the f...

January 23, 2020

The big Trump administration mistake that led to impeachment

There were literally thousands of qualified Trump-supporters eager to join his administration, yet those responsible for personnel decisions decided to retain Obama employees or hire NeverTrumps, who, collectively, either resisted or actively undermi...

January 22, 2020

Why Afghanistan is endless

According to the recently published "Afghanistan Papers," for over eighteen years, U.S. civilian and military leaders have been simultaneously clueless and deceptive. "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afgha...

January 7, 2020

What does a US foreign policy success in the Middle East look like?

The answer is exemplified by the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, where we allow, even encourage, the fanatics to kill each other, given their seemingly insatiable appetite for internecine warfare, preferably without an American presence. It is...

December 28, 2019

Herbert Marcuse and the Democrats’ Impeachment

The partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump, its shredding of the Constitution and disregard for due process, are just symptoms of the Democrat party’s abandonment of both democracy and sanity in its ruthless pursuit of permanent politic...

December 6, 2019

Ukraine was the Origin of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax

December 2015 was a pivotal month in many respects. During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial lead over his Republican primary opponents. Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Ukraine to announce, o...

November 12, 2019

How the Deep State Media Operate

Few now doubt that the major U.S. media outlets, under the guise of journalism, function as political activists, saturating the airwaves and the internet with the talking points of the Democrat party. There has long been liberal bias in the media,...

September 28, 2019

Both Republicans and Democrats are Clueless about Afghanistan

For eighteen years, we have wrongly applied counterinsurgency doctrine to a proxy war waged by Pakistan against the U.S. and Afghanistan. Bilateral negotiations with the Taliban will not bring peace to Afghanistan nor will it provide an adequate...

December 13, 2013

A Government Separated from the People Cannot Stand

In his 1952 book The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, Israeli historian J. L. Talmon described a political system in which lawfully elected representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right to vote, have little or no pa...

December 9, 2013

Obama is not a Pathological Liar, He is an Ideological Liar

Like communism, the collapse of the Obama Administration agenda is inevitable, not solely as a result of its many flawed policies, but because it lacks an ethical dimension in regard to individual rights, justifiable criteria for its use of state coe...

January 31, 2012

Our Elective Despotism

There are many things obvious to ordinary Americans that cannot be mentioned publicly in the polite political company of the Republican and Democratic establishments or among their press agents in the mainstream media, who obligingly pirouette around...