FROM MY CORNER The leader of a tiny country is still living in a mental time frame of about 200 years ago. He is frightened that the planet’s largest military nation, with some 1500 nuclear warheads, may pounce on his land militarily– as it has on others elsewhere. He thinks of Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan…. continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER Rising Defense stock prices are the news of the day. Northrop Grumman, United Technologies, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell International are all hitting new highs. Media news attributes this substantially to all the military fuss about North Korea’s insistent nuclear experimentation as it strives to join the atomic bomb club. Simultaneously, however,… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER How to make any sense at all from the many thousands of comments broadcast day and night over Internet, TV, Newspapers, and Magazines has become almost impossible. Daily, I check dozens of news websites worldwide: BBC for instance; and in the U.S, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, plus many allegedly “alternative” sources…. continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER Who, I wonder, are the 35 million Americans so passionately antagonistic toward immigrants? One thing is certain: they are the descendants of immigrants. Other than Native American Indians, all of us are the descendants of immigrants, and even they immigrated originally from Asiatic lands. So if you think about it, it is… continue reading »
FROM MY CORNER The inconsistencies of this president and his cartwheeling politics of palace intrigue are enough to drive one to despair. A good old boy right-wing acquaintance of mine still sees Mr. Trump as the savior of our country. He, like Trump, is a basher of media, sees conspiracies in every shadowy corner, and… continue reading »
