State of the Superpower

Despite Senator Clinton winning the March 4 Texas Primary popular vote, Senator Obama will emerge from the state with more delegates. Only two-thirds of Texas’ pledge delegates are awarded by popular vote, the remaining third are allocated by caucuses.
It’s funny how Mr. Obama believes that party “superdelegate” votes should mirror the popular vote, but has […]

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I’m on a Detroit rift today.
An Education Week study reports the dropout rate for Detroit at 75%. That means only 25 out of every 100 students graduate. Of course Detroit Public Schools disputes that number, claiming that 67% of students actually graduate.
What both numbers show is that Detroit’s Public Schools are a disgrace.

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It’s bad enough Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (Democrat) refuses to step down following a series of crippling scandals, but the District Court Judge randomly picked to conduct the preliminary examination turns out to be a campaign donor. Judge Ronald Giles contributed at least $300 to Kilpatrick’s 2006 campaign fund. Despite being asked by prosecutors […]

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There is a lot of excitement today over Mr. Bush’s proposed financial regulation reforms. Exactly what does Mr. Bush, as free market, anti-regulatory, and laissez faire a president as we’ve seen in recent times, intend to do?
Paulson lays out blueprint for Wall Street overhaul

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President Bush will visit Kiev to help make the case for Ukraine joining NATO. Since the collapse of the USSR, ten former Soviet client states, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia, have joined NATO.
For those familiar with NATO, is it still relevant in the 21st century?

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Hey America, you’re whining and crying over nothing. Our economic downturn is really a media generated conspiracy to get a Democrat elected president. Don’t believe me, just ask Fox News pundit Neal Cavuto.
The media’s focus on the negative side of everything surely helps explain people’s pessimism. In a recent interview Fox’s Neil Cavuto claimed this […]

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Rush Limbaugh is again trying to derail the democratic process. He is now encouraging Republican-leaning Independents in Pennsylvania to vote for Hilary Clinton with the goal of prolonging the nominating process and “weakening” the eventual Democratic candidate. So this is what democracy has degenerated into, “tactical “voting to weaken the opposition.
Why doesn’t Rush just come […]

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Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut compared Republican Presidential nominee John McCain to John Kennedy. No, this is not a misprint. Lieberman, the 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, vigorous supporter of the Iraq War, and holder of an educational deferment for the Vietnam War, is now in the poor comparison business.
I guess Mr. Lieberman will do […]

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I really love the Ron Howard film, Apollo 13. There are so many great scenes, my favorite being just after the command/service module is damaged by an electrical fire. The NASA ground personnel are panicked, argumentative, and completely clueless about what needs to be done to save the crew.
Flight Director Gene Kranz, played by Ed […]

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In this piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Deborah Solomon asks deposed secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neil “how the subprime mortgage crisis . . . triggered a financial crisis of global proportions.”
His response:
“If you have 10 bottles of water, and one bottle had poison in it, and you didn’t know which one, […]

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