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Zelensky seeking more aid A year ago this month, President Volodymyr Zelensky came to Washington. He was seeking additional US aid to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s genocidal aggression. He addressed a Joint Session of Congress, where members hailed him as a hero. They viewed him as a beacon of democratic resilience. I duly commented on the Churchillian… Read more.
Which makes one wonder why so many are so eager to join Washington’s do-nothing Congress. But I trust you will appreciate why these cartoons inspired me to write this derivative take on T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land: The Burial of the Dead”: AUGUST is the slowest month, leaving Cities like concrete deserts, granting Vacation and… Read more.
I have had cause on far too many occasions to denounce the presumptuous way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted, variously, to challenge Obama’s presidential authority or dictate how Obama should exercise it. What is most troubling, however, is that congressional Republicans have invariably enabled him. In fact, while doing all they could to… Read more.
Evidently, for those who voted against this bailout bill just days ago, putting lipstick on a pig can be quite appealing. Because all it took for them to compromise their born-again fiscal virtue were billions of dollars in pork-barrel spending that have been larded onto this $700 billion bill. This includes new earmarks for a… Read more.
