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I have lately been reminding myself that, if you have an unrealistic view of circumstances, then the decisions you make based on those circumstances will have a high probability of also being unrealistic. I was once told that we encounter only two… more »

In the interlude between the gloom-saying of the Republican National Convention last week and the raucous opening of the Democratic convention, I gave my brain some time off from ruminating about politics. One of my escapes is the kitchen, where I find… more »

As if in rebuttal to my previous post (“Condemned to Repeat”), the next day an op-ed by Hassan Hassan of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy appeared in the New York Times. In it, the author notes- as I and many others also have- the shift in… more »

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  - Edmund Burke The Past During World War II, the campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific theater was marked by brutal fighting. Japanese hopes for bringing the United States to the… more »

There is nothing to add as a week of senseless violence ends with the mass killing of police officers in Dallas.  As I write this, the media is reporting that this latest tragedy is work of one man. It is still too early in the investigation to know if… more »

It is evident that an irrational but palpable sense of insecurity, fueled by reductionist rants spewing forth from media outlets and the Internet, is infecting large segments of the population. The consequence of this negative information bombardment is… more »