AMERICA’S GIFT TO RUSSIAN GAS KINGS AND QUEENS

The logic is straightforward – NPR reports that the Ukraine government spends about 7.5 percent of the country’s GDP on gas through a subsidy to its citizens. Over 60 percent of Ukraine’s gas comes from Russia. Plus, Ukraine’s gas bill is overdue by more than USD 3 billion. Russia’s increases in the price of gas […]

UKRAINE CONFUSION

I won’t spend too much time writing about the military situation in Ukraine today, but as usual, I want to hit a few points that the mainstream media and American foreign policy critics seem to be silent about. First, we’re talking about UKRAINE, folks! By the turn of the century, Ukraine may not even exist […]

YES, NSA. THERE IS A BETTER WAY.

I just watched a fascinating interview with National Security Agency Director, General Keith Alexander, where he answers critics of the NSA’s counter-terrorism surveillance programs with a challenge at the 15:09 mark: “Can somebody come up with a better way of doing it?” Here’s my way: starve the terrorist beast. I admit that my way […]

WHAT DID THIS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ACCOMPLISH?

I see two things accomplished by the recent partisan-driven budget standoff between Congress and the White House. In a case of twin-irony, the Party of No Guts displayed a rare streak of courage while the Party of No Brains won something that they’ve always claimed to be viscerally against – more government regulations! (Laughing) C’mon, what […]

THE DUMP AMERICA THEME CATCHES ON

Remember when I posted last week about how the myopic budget battles between the Party of No Brains and the Party of No Guts miss the bigger picture of other nations looking at our internal beef and beginning to question America’s status as the owner of the world’s reserve currency? After all, why should […]

WHAT BUSH JR MEANT ABOUT ‘OUR WAY OF LIFE’

China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao made a statement earlier this week about President Obama and Washington’s risk of a debt default due to the current partisan battle that I found a bit unsettling: “As the world’s largest economy and the issuer of the major reserve currency in the world, it is important for […]

BOEHNER’S AN INSIDER!

It’s really, really difficult for House Speaker John Boehner to offer the appearance of being a rebel – short of him executing a coup against President Obama of course – when Boehner is the third most powerful person in America. In spite of that observation, Boehner appeared on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday […]

THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN CLOSED – BUT THERE’S WORSE NEWS.

This government shutdown is pretty friggin’ amazing in that I’ve never seen such dysfunctional behavior in large organizations. But what’s more amazing to me is how America is on its way to completing a 16-year journey to nowhere. 16…years. That’s a lot of time when you consider the rest of the world is not […]

IMMIGRATION REFORM – AN INDEPENDENT GUY’S THOUGHTS

Now that the Party of No Brains, led by master taxwriter and Congressman Dave Camp has come up with another reason why the current immigration reform bill passed by the Senate will never make it through the House, a picture very familiar to the Party of No Guts should emerge: PNBs don’t want immigration, even […]

EGYPT’S LATEST REVOLUTION

I’m not near my laptop at the moment, so I’ll post my thoughts about Mohamed Morsi’s forced departure from Egypt’s presidency and the country’s broader problems from my mobile phone. I get how Americans — with the mainstream media’s help — are pretty shocked over the idea that Egypt’s military can arrest Morsi and […]