In the Yes, We’re Still Losing Department: Chris Matthews had this brief tete de tete with Reince Priebus, the GOP’s already lamented new chief. What the GOP leadership is good at, always been good at, is dodging easy questions, mistakenly…
Picking at Scabs on the Ship of Fools
The political killing season gets earlier and earlier, it seems. So does finding ways to make voters stay home…and I’m not speaking of Democrats here. Full disclosure In full disclosure, I’m one week older than Herman Cain. So, I’m old…
Baathist Syria vs. the Muslim Brotherhood, Part II
The Baathist Party of Syria, under Hafez al-Assad took power in Syria in 1970. The are an old style dictatorial regime ruling with an iron fist. The Baathists, while paying lip service to Islam was/is essentially a secular political regime,…