Last February, Donald Trump and his surrogates began making a comparison between Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and the break-in at Democratic Headquarters and the subsequent cover-up by the committee to re-elect Richard Nixon president. Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano suggested the unavailability of every email “was far worse than an 18-and-a-half-minute … Read more
In baseball, the “dog days of summer” refers to the period from mid-July to the end of August when temperatures and humidity reach their peak. It is also the time when a team’s outcome is pretty much determined. You are either a contender or already declaring “wait ’til next year.” For politicians running for … Read more
Let me introduce you to Evelyn Farkas. In September 2015, Dr. Farkas resigned as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia after five years in the Obama administration. Previously she served as executive director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction and staff member to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Politico.com … Read more
Disclaimer: One modus operandi of the Donald Trump campaign has been the creation and distribution of conspiracy theories about his rivals. Perhaps the most infamous was linking Ted Cruz’s father to Lee Harvey Oswald. Recently the campaign has pieced together unrelated information and video clips to suggest Hillary Clinton was physically ill and incapable of fulfilling … Read more
In his award winning video Everyday Creativity, National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones suggests one key to living a creative life is by “reframing problems into opportunities.” Some people suggest Jones is merely restating the old adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” a time-tested principle which can be found in English translations of Plato’s Republic. … Read more