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Trump; North Korea; The Risk of Mission Creep; 3-28-2017

My last post on North Korea warned against “mission creep” requiring Trump to solve more than the North Korean nuclear weapons program.  Bret…

President Trump; Pat Buchanan: North Korea Again 3-10-17

North Korea is a story that will not go away. Pat Buchanan’s March 10, 2017 column on President Trump’s derision…

Trump; North Korea and Wall Street Journal: All Stick No Carrot; 2-26-2017

So here we are. Again.  The title of the Journal’s editorial of February 24, 2017.carries the message: North Korean Terror…

Trump, Elaine Scarry, Thermonuclear Monarchy, 5-5-2016

 True story. A single young mother was having a party with her druggie boyfriend. No problem. I try not to…

Rubio, Trump: North Korean Hydrogen Bomb? 01-17-2016

In the past few years I have presented as number of posts on North Korea: North Korea’s Nuclear Hatchet: 12-12-12 Remember…

Trump: What about Syria?

The population of Syria has grown from a few million to about 23 million in the past 100 years. As…

Rubio’s Trillion Dollar Defense Increase,The Middle East and nuclear possibilities

The rational behind Rubio’s  spectacular increase in defense spending, an additional $1 Trillion over the next ten years,  rests on…

Ann Coulter, Trump, War

For half a century ethnicity  has been blurred, misrepresented and sometimes obliterated by the enormous ideological shadow of communism.  Probably the states that were most…

IQ of Italian Americans: Implications for Nuclear Weapons

IQ of Italian Americans: Implications for Nuclear Weapons The following letter is an addition to three of my original chapters, …

Trump: The Wall Street Journal; China and Russia

The Wall Street Journal dreads the idea of a Donald Trump presidency. Maybe even more than the possibility of a Hillary…

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