It’s called the Switzerland of South America. Its citizens are mostly of European stock. It is a Social Democracy that offers free education, legal marijuana, abortion, and same-sex marriage, and …
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Situational Awareness: Warren Dodges Questions, Sterling Fights Back, Obama Punts on Ukraine
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringWelcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future. ALAS, POOR HILLARY: Big Chief Elizabeth Warren, she …
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Clippers owner Donald Sterling shouldn’t be worried that his life is over. Sure, he’s now holed up in the penthouse of a Beverly Hills office building, subsisting on pizza and …
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Every so often an idea comes along, that combines familiar technologies in a new way that seems totally obvious after you see it for the first time. The kind of …
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About 10 years ago I worked with a young Polish gentleman, and one day I caught him wistfully reminiscing about the Communists. He was only a young child when the Solidarność …
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While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama …
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Those of us waiting for North Korea’s fourth big underground nuclear test, to be timed to coincide with Barack Obama’s trip last week to Seoul, were disappointed this weekend when …
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The fiscal cliff battles in Congress seem to have calmed down, but we shouldn’t be lulled into thinking though that the problem has gone away. We remain a nation that …
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Fiction is Stranger Than Truth — 5 Weird Things Americans Believe
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringA recent Associated Press poll revealed that a majority of Americans aren’t sure whether the Big Bang Theory, which postulates that everything was created in a massive expansion at the …
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Situational Awareness: American Wins Boston Marathon, SCOTUS Slaps Down Affirmative Action
by Bruce Haringby Bruce HaringWelcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future. SOMALIA OR BUST: A Hawaii-based ground crew …