Obama Shows Strength

President Obama came out swinging, saying, We have to act fast. We cannot dawdle on this one. We have to move with force – but he wasn’t talking about ISIS, he was talking about the Ebola virus and sending 3000 soldiers (putting boots on the ground) to Africa.   Each of us looks at villains…

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Not a Combat Mission

It turns out not having ‘boots on the ground’ isn’t quite what it seems.   The other day when the President said he was sending 425 more soldiers to Iraq he added, These American forces will not have a combat mission – we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq.   That…

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A Safe Bet?

 Not long after President Obama pressed the go-button Kay Hagan chimed in, “The President and our military leadership have now developed a plan to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels and defeat ISIS with a sustained campaign of airstrikes.”   Moderate Syrian rebels? Do you reckon such a creature really exists?   Basing a military…

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Be Calm, Don’t Worry

Back in 1939 (when a varmint was on the loose) there was hardly a mother, father or wife around who felt enough fear or saw any good reason to send their sons or husbands to Europe to fight what looked like a modern version of the bubonic plague – which left Franklin Roosevelt facing a…

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The Next Big Issue?

When the pollster asked voters, Who should pay for the coal ash cleanup, Duke Energy or consumers? the answer came back loud and clear: Voters had no doubt. Almost to a man they said Duke Energy.   Now that didn’t mean that was the right – or fair – answer.   But it did mean…

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Thin Ice

According to the Census Bureau, back in the fall of 2011 without knowing it we crossed a kind of Rubicon.   Back then – during the last quarter of 2011 – 101,716,000 people had full time jobs while 108,592,000 people were receiving payments from welfare programs and, if that sounds like skating across thin ice,…

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The Peculiar Issue Isn’t…

About one minute after sitting down Sean launched off into a tirade saying the border children ought to all be shipped home – then he stopped and was asked, Suppose one of those children fled El Salvador (or wherever) because she’d been repeatedly gang-raped – would you send her home too?   He said, Absolutely.…

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Foreign Policy?

  Thirteen years ago the terrorists blew up the World Trade Center and, since the terrorists lived in Afghanistan, we attacked Afghanistan.   The terrorists then moved to Pakistan but we kept right on attacking Afghanistan.   A decade later we killed the lead terrorist in Pakistan but we’re still fighting in Afghanistan.   In…

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Day Two, But Still Part One

Governor McCrory’s blast at The N&O got him another day of the “blaring, top-of-the-fold” headlines he blasted. But this is just the beginning of the Coal Ash Saga. We soon will have a U.S. Attorney’s investigation and a fight over who pays: McCrory’s former boss, Duke Energy, or his current boss, the People of North…

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Inclusive

Our President praised the President of Iraq and urged Iraq’s new Prime Minister-to-be to bring Iraqis together and ‘form an inclusive new government.’   Which sure sounds fine.   Except for one hitch.   In New York City ‘inclusive’ means bringing together diverse ethnic groups and minorities in homogenized harmony, but in Iraq it means…

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