Thursday Reads: Human Evolution, Snowden Leaks, and Other News
Good Morning!! I seem to have caught a little cold, nothing serious; but I’m a little slow this morning. Anyway, I have a few interesting stories for you, beginning with an amazing discovery that has...
View ArticleIndependence Day Reads
by Middleton Manigault – The Rocket (1909) Happy Independence Day Team USA! Here’s how the Kennedy family is spending their 4th of July! “Kennedy family BASHES Trump over Fourth of July weekend with a...
View ArticleYou just can’t keep (or put) those Evil NeoCons down
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy advisers are like the who is who of the Rummy/Cheney NeoCon War Club. They may have been driven underground by public opinion after the failed wars of Dubya Bush but they...
View ArticleFriday Reads: Make Love not War
Good Morning! We certainly have created a lot of ways to destroy each other haven’t we? We also seem to breed a lot of individuals that are capable of doing great harm without reservation. This week...
View ArticleTuesday Reads: Dreaming a Life; Obama and Putin; NSA and Snowden
Good Morning!! I’m going to begin with an article I came across yesterday while reading the Guardian. It’s about a story from 2006 that I remembered and sometimes think about–a woman whose...
View ArticleTuesday Reads: The Agony of Glenn Greenwald, The Ickiness of Ted Cruz, &...
Good Morning!! As of yesterday, we’ve reached the point with the NSA leaks story that the entire focus is on Glenn Greenwald and his martyrdom. Even Edward Snowden has now faded into the background....
View ArticleTuesday Reads: U.S. Spies on Foreign Countries and Other “Blockbuster” News
Good Morning!! In the weeks since Edward Snowden absconded with thousands of top secret National Security Agency (NSA) files and traveled to Hong Kong and then Moscow and handed over the documents to...
View ArticleTuesday Reads: Liberals, Libertarians, and Concern Trolls
Good Morning!! Between the Red Sox being in the World Series and having to have a root canal on Saturday, I’ve been a little bit disconnected from politics. The Sox won again last night in St. Louis,...
View ArticleSaturday Reads
Good Morning!! Amid all the bad news, there’s apparently progress in the negotiations with Iran. The LA Times reported yesterday that a “nuclear deal appears imminent.” Secretary of State John Kerry...
View ArticleSaturday Reads
Good Morning!! There’s a little breaking news this morning. The Guardian reports: China scrambles fighter jets towards US and Japan planes in disputed air zone. China scrambled fighter jets to...
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