Robert Mueller died last week at age 81 of Parkinson's disease. After he graduated from Princeton University, a friend of his was killed in Vietnam. Mueller set aside his career goals and enlisted. Among his military awards were a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. President Clinton appointed ...
For the better part of three weeks, our President’s foray into Iran has been scrutinized by people around the world. Allow me to pile on. The President, who usually doesn’t choose his words carefully as he does his worst caricature of Archie Bunker’s malapropisms, has labeled the U.S. ...
Following reports that Bill Maher will receive the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to believe it. "This is fake news," she told CNN. "Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award." Ah, guess again. On Thursday, the center ...
The Gallup World Poll recently released its latest rankings of the happiest countries, based on survey data collected from 2022 to 2024, and Finland landed in the No. 1 spot for the ninth year in a row. One definitely has to wonder what it is about the Finns that causes many of them to enjoy ...
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting old men's power games. It is ...
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.” Alexander Pope obviously never knew Donald Trump when he wrote this famous quote in his poem “An Essay on Criticism” in the early Eighteenth Century, but he was obviously familiar with the type of person who is currently residing in ...