Always eager to expand its worldwide battlefields, the Pentagon recently began ordering the bombing of Islamic State targets in Libya. Sure, the ISIS is a frightening terrorist group. But why, for heaven’s sake, is America involved, still once again meddling in Middle East matters? Better to spend the money at home and avoid a killing field of Libyans and GIs. The New … [Read more...]
Volkswagen Pays $14.7 Billion for Gross Dishonesty
It’s beyond comprehension why a company like Volkswagen, long vaunted as the home of “the people’s car,” would direct a “clean diesel” advertising campaign that was utterly fraudulent. Whatever the rationale of company executives, Volkswagen paid dearly for its dishonesty: a $14.7 billion settlement with the federal government—one of the largest consumer class-action payouts … [Read more...]
‘Balanced’ Ticket no Help to Presidential Nominees
Tradition and history call for a balanced ticket in presidential elections. But the running mates chosen by presidential nominees this year may be more of a drag then a help. Democrat Hillary Clinton picked former U.S. Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her vice presidential candidate despite serious ethical problems. • Barr Pharmaceuticals gave him a ride on its private jet … [Read more...]
Vanity of Vanities
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities. All is vanity. — Ecclesiastes 1:2 (KJV) King Hollande pays extravagant fee to hairdresser Francois Hollande, so-called socialist French prime minister, acts like a capitalist. He pays his hairdresser $10,000 a month to clean, comb and brush his hair daily--at government expense. The money is about what a government … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Strikes Down Barbarous Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2015-2016 term on a triumphant note, striking down the inhumane Texas anti-abortion law. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in a concurring opinion to the 5-3 ruling: “It is beyond belief that the Texas law could really protect the health of women.” Beyond belief, certainly, but much in keeping with oppressive, unconstitutional … [Read more...]
New York Times avoids truth about Wiesel
The New York Times ran a full page, glowing obituary tribute of words to Elie Wiesel, “who the world would never forget.” Just one of 75 paragraphs of praise admitted that Wiesel “had his detractors.” Literary critic Alfred Kazin merely “wondered whether he had embellished some stories.” And, “questions were raised about whether ‘Night’ was a memoir or a novel as it was … [Read more...]
Better Trump Than Dreary Establishment Clinton
The choice for president of the United States is easy for a Man of the Left: Bernie Sanders. Sanders won most of the Democratic primaries but his opponent, Hillary Clinton, reaped the majority of delegates to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this month. Clinton had a lock on the superdelegates, those numerous Establishment figures who cling to the past rather than … [Read more...]
British Rightly Vote to Leave European Union
Despite doomsayers and forecasters of disaster if Great Britain cut ties with the European Union, the British voters wisely choose to leave the union. “One of the good things about Brexit is the rich curriculum of lessons it offers leaders and electorates in other democratic countries,” Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne wrote. “Citizens who live in the economically … [Read more...]