WWIT about Trump, Ukraine and Impeachment When Donald Trump was elected President we already knew he was a deeply flawed man who had no experience running a government. But being a fool is not an impe...Read More
WWIT Economic Sanctions are Acts of War The USA is imposing economic sanctions on Iran as a response to this weeks missile attack on oil process facilities in Saudi Arabia. They are seen in the US as ...Read More
Brexit is a Portmanteau of British and Exit and it explains it all. The UK voted to leave the EU and the decision is causing much angst in the EU and in the UK. I have always thought that Brexit was, ...Read More
Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker This is one of my favorite books from this summers reading. Pinker sees the flow of history and writes about what has worked and what hasn’t. He ends up about ...Read More
What Was I Thinking About Israel Nowadays most of our politics is about what outrage President Trump has perpetrated this week. The national press has shown itself to be extremely biased against the p...Read More
WWIT What Was I Thinking About Mass Shootings Last week there were two shooting incidents in the US that made headlines, and required political responses. The shootings were horrible young white men u...Read More
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman It is rare that a literate man is sent to prison for a long time and survives to write about it. I read this memoir to better understand the effect ...Read More
A waterfall makes noise but its power comes from its moving water. Likewise the noise coming from Washington is entertaining but the power is in the tax code. Photo of an old mill in Bayeux, France....Read More