It could be extended by two weeks immediately. I admit that this article is time-sensitive and could make me look like an idiot in less than a day — a practice not recommended on Medium — but recently I made the apparently hopeless suggestion that the current Cease-Fire in Gaza…

He started young. Mary Trump writes about how her father, Fred Trump Jr, died of problems relating to alcoholism in 1981, at the age of 42. “As my father lay dying alone,” she writes, “Donald went to the movies.” Trump’s offhand callousness ran the spectrum from family to obscure contact…

East-West storm collides with North-South system to create a ‘Perfect Storm’ Two storm systems — one centred on the war in Ukraine and the other on the war in Gaza — were already threatening to damage the democracies, and they have just gotten worse. The storm’s intensity accelerated with Joe…

Sorry to post twice in one day, but I just noticed something interesting about this gathering of commentators and readers. Here are the top four subjects that you have been following most this month: Truth: The reason for 9/11; Peace (Champion) : Yitzhak Rabin, Israel; Freedom (Ukraine): AKA Putin is…

Why that’s BS and why it doesn’t matter anyway. One in three women in America will have an abortion in her lifetime. This is an important thing to know in an article on economic leadership, because although we are assured by the polls that the economy is the number one…

The cease-fire in Gaza is about two kinds of people: There is the mother of an 18-year-old Palestinian youth who is baking his favorite foods in anticipation of his return, and her counterpart the Israeli grandfather who is wondering if his three-year-old granddaughter will be among those released. Then there…

The revolts against Rome were among the worst decisions ever made…and have lessons now. A “Hamas Moment” is a decision that rebounds with crushing consequences. Netanyahu once pledged: “Gamla will not fall a second time.” He is missing the motivation for its collapse. And despite his recent ceasefire with Hamas…

Racing car or terrorists blast? Pardon this premature note, but a vehicle has exploded on a bridge I used to travel over frequently. Now all four bridges over the Niagara River have been closed. Fox News has reported that “high-level police sources” have confirmed that the explosion was an attempted…

and BTW the polls suck and a revolution is needed thereafter Biden’s chances of winning against Trump in 2024 boil down to the conflicting weight of two issues: Reproductive rights (ROE) on his side, minus the Gaza War (not popular). The Democrats also have to prep for the next election…