This Blogger just finished listening to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech about the imbroglio in the Middle East, specifically between Israel and Palestine.  The speech started off as the best, most passionate speech John Kerry has ever given, and,then in typical Kerry fashion, deteriorated into mediocre tedium. As the speech never ended, this Blogger thought about the last Israeli lion, Shimon Peres, who died in this year 2016, at the age of 93. It is one of the great sins of 20 th Century History that an Israeli/Palestinian accord could not be forged when other great Israeli lions were alive: Moshe Dayan, David  Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Abba Eban. Alas, the great Arab lion of that age was Gamal Abdel Nasser; who was delusional. He threatened Israel with annihilation; then,rather than plan for an armed Israeli reaction to his threats, a preemptive strike, he spent hours discussing the future of Jews in a post Israeli, Palestinian state. With lions like D...

In 1970, Hollywood made  a film out of an old hippie slogan SUPPOSE THEY GAVE A WAR and NO ONE CAME. It was a comedy; but it was under girded by salient facts from  the Fall of the Roman Empire. In 451 AD, contemporary Roman sources state that the Roman Empire fielded an Army of 150,000 to fight Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons. Twenty five years later, in 476 AD, the Roman Empire could not field a platoon to save Rome from barbarian hordes, ergo the Fall of the Roman Empire. During World War II, the United States had a population of 132.1 million and fielded a Military of 6,000,000 men and women. In 2016, the American population is 320 million, and can barely field a Military of 2 million men and women. Why the shortfall? President Obama’s Social Engineering of the Military, highlighted by the REPEAL OF DON’T ASK/DON’T TELL, Open Service for Gays, Women in Combat, and Open Service for Transgenders. The Social Engineering drove Christian males from volunt...

This Blogger was taken with President Obama, in his 2016 STATE OF THE UNION address, proclaiming a MOONSHOT against Cancer, an attempt to eradicate the dreaded disease, with Vice President Biden as his ramrod in this effort. The American Council on Science and Health was not overly impressed “ Early on in his final State of the Union address, President  Obama advocated for a “moonshot” campaign to “cure cancer once and for all.” And now while this is an admirable and lofty goal, the plain, unadulterated truth is that completely eradicating this disease is simply unachievable. “Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer. Last month, he worked with this Congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health the strongest resources that they’ve had in over a decade,” the president said. “So tonight, I’m announcing a new national effort to get it done. And because he’s gone to the mat for all of us on so many issues over t...