While channel surfing over the weekend, I chanced upon the John Frankenheimer tour-de-force The Manchurian Candidate (1964), the story of Raymond Shaw, a Korean War medal of honor winner whose story of heroism is a cover after having been captured and programmed by his Chinese handlers to become an assassin. The communists’ end game is to create … Read more
Pundits on both sides are having a field day with the release of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. Many, including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, claim it adds to what he and others had been hearing from Trump’s inner circle and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Trump allies have attacked the book as “fiction” or “garbage,” but most have … Read more
Thanks to Michael Wolff we now know one more major topic of disagreement in the Trump White House. Donald’s inner circle cannot decide what is the appropriate nomenclature for their boss’ intellectual aptitude. Idiot? Moron? Bleeping moron? Unfit? Child? As Wolff tells it, most of these descriptions are expressed following policy discussions be it … Read more
As hard as one might try, it is next to impossible to forget the exchange between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the foreign policy debate (October 2016), when each accused the other of being a puppet. As we approach the first anniversary of this national nightmare, it’s clear the evidence is on Clinton’s … Read more
Charles Kettering (1876-1958), an American inventor who among other things was responsible for the electric self-starter in automobiles, once said, “A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” In other words, if you ask the right question, your chances of finding the right answer increase. At the end of a tumultuous year, we still … Read more