Why Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) says that Congress is corrupt
What this 60 Minutes CBS show featuring retiring U.S. Senator Tom Coburn. In a single sentence he says why our...
Allan Levene
Afghanistan
You may have heard on (what passes for) the news that our government is negotiating with the Afghanistan president, Mr....
Why Russia may finally invade Ukraine
President Putin, a KGB veteran, has a problem. A large part of the Russian Federation's budget is from oil and...
Why do the police need heavy machine guns and silencers?
I was somewhat disturbed with a NBC Nightly News report that the Department of Defense is providing local police forces...
New Israel, part II
Some time ago, I wrote an article with the title "New Israel." My idea was borne from the fact that...
My secret, almost, trip to North Korea
As I was sixty-four when I ran for Congress, I was keenly aware that if I wanted to represent the...
Never let a good crisis go to waste
There has been a lot of talk about the Obamacare federal healthcare website being a disaster, developed at an astonishing...
If you think that Congress makes laws, you’re wrong
If you think that congressmen and women go to Washington, vote on bills in the House and Senate, and the...
Props
You may have watched NBC Nightly News on October 29th. You can watch it below. If you jump to minute...
How to tell when a president lies
When President Obama gave a speech about how he would handle the unfolding scandal of the NSA spying revelations and...
