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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — James Joyce, “Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man”
The United States rightfully celebrated the death of the Islamic State (ISIS) leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on Oct. 27. The killing of this de…
When American presidents make claims about their economic achievements, and when they are criticized for their alleged failures, words of caut…
I have to admit that I was not particularly impressed with Mitt Romney when he was running for president in 2012. He’d done a great job on the…
In a press release Sen. Jim Risch asked us all to go along with Trump's newfound policy to allow Turkey's autocrat to attack the Kurds, our al…
Breaking with some Republican leaders, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declined to say outrig…
After American forces defeated Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority did not have the foggiest idea of how to f…
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have broken out in a happy dance when President Donald Trump announced over the Easter weekend that the …
