Kristen Gillibrand is now hearing noise about running for President. Ms Gillibrand is presidentially attractive, intelligent and a clever speaker but she just doesn’t have the gravitas to make this run now. I’ve seen her in two instances get her
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A really important question was being debated on TV last Sunday. Has the president lost the American people and will he recover from this very bad year. Of course Bill Kristol and the Right were loaded for bear, championing the
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Michael Hayden is one very smart cookie. He makes the best defense of the security establishments egregious invasions of American privacy imaginable but even Hayden can’t make me believe that NSA isn’t more interested in power than they are in security.
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There was big news last week about a bunch of archeologists digging up some old bones in Europe that seem to have changed the known history of how man has developed. Actually this shouldn’t be big news at all because it
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately but there is a lot of weird stuff happening in the world and a great deal of it is coming from the propagators of religion and the religious right. But it’s not just
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Being as it’s New Years Day, and all the bowl action is taking up most of the viewing space on the tube, I thought that this was an apt subject to explore. There’s been a lot of noise made lately about
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