Russia’s space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station — a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth — will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean in 2020, …
Read More »The Confederate flag and the party of Lincoln
My Southern credentials are thus: I was born in Georgia and grew-up in the capital of the Confederacy – Richmond, Virginia. Large statues of Confederate soldiers graced Monument Avenue in the heart of downtown Richmond. General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson were recognized and honored in official state …
Read More »UN report denies Israel's right of self-defense, advocates arrest of Israelis instead
Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and any other “suspected” Israeli war criminals wherever and whenever you can get your hands on them. That is the shocking bottom line of a scandalous report released today from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report emanates from a board of inquiry the Council …
Read More »Targeting Fox News Is a Profound Political Mistake
The White House is making a profound political mistake by targeting Fox News and deliberately deciding to exclude them from interviews and access to the administration. And not only that, they are making a mistake on both a practical and a political level. Frankly, it just doesn’t make sense. On …
Read More »Why the Muslim Brotherhood Will Win
With President Hosni Mubarak vowing to stay in power through the transition of government, the central question facing the Obama administration, and indeed the world, is what will happen when Mubarak does indeed leave and Egypt transitions to Democratic elections and a new government. President Obama dramatically understated the level …
Read More »Summer movies that make scientists chuckle
It’s summer, and that can mean only one thing. Will Smith will travel back in time and come face to face with an alternate universe. And an alien vessel will land on a forbidden planet in a movie directed by Ridley Scott that involves a woman dressed in a skintight …
Read More »Gretchen's Take: GOP needs a serious lesson on messaging
Like him or not — agree with him or not — Donald Trump adds spice to the 2016 presidential campaign. Don’t you want to see what he just might say on the debate stage? I know I do. Call it good entertainment — call it whatever — the last people …
Read More »Afghanistan Hits the Jackpot
Just when you thought the Afghanistan mini-series was winding down, it’s headed for another season – turns out all those goat herders and militants are sitting on one of the world’s largest deposits of valuable minerals. It will be like “The Beverly Hillbillies” with guns and turbans. Let’s recap the …
Read More »What's at stake if Obama goes 0-3 with Egypt
So far, the Obama administration is 0-2 on Egypt. They’ve got just one more chance to get it right. And it’s all about using our aid as leverage, getting something back for our investment. The first time at bat, in the early years of his presidency, Obama missed the opportunity …
Read More »Devil’s in the details: The government is not required to display satanic statues
A false narrative is being advanced in Arkansas and elsewhere that if a government body displays a privately donated Ten Commandments monument for historical reasons, it is legally required to accept and display any and all other monuments offered by a private individual or group, even those honoring Satan. The …
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