PUTIN'S KAMIKAZE GOVERNMENT
Around 2015, Putin ordered the destruction of all food originating from countries that had imposed economic sanctions on Russia. At the...
BUTTERFLY EFFECT OF WORDS
On this New Year's Day, it makes perfect sense to me that I reflect on the book I started in 2017 and will finish in 2018: The...
AN IDEOLOGICAL LABEL IS JUST THAT
Ideological labels are misleading. Republican, Democrat, Neo-Liberal, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Alt-Right, Socialist. The...
NIXONCARE? WHO'D A THUNK?
Before Obamacare, there was Nixoncare and Romneycare. All three proposed insurance market exchanges, mandatory participation and...
THE THIRD RAIL OF TAX REFORM
The mortgage interest deduction is a political sacred cow. Mention of abolishing it is the political equivalent of touching the...
SABOTAGE IN IRAQ
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously stated that "stuff happens" when asked about the death and destruction that followed...