An Embarrassment of Embarrassments
What's more screwed up in the White House--personnel or policy? There's virtually no senior advisor to the President who hasn't left or been rumored to be on their way out. (With the exception of Tr...
6 Mar 201840min
The Road Not Taken
Max Boot's great new book "The Road Not Taken" about American intelligence officer Edward Lansdale not only offers great insights into an intriguing character and a pivotal moment in American and mode...
1 Mar 201838min
This Country Was Built on Laundered Money
It is impossible to prove that Trump role model Tony Montana was actually speaking about former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort when he said, "this country was built on laundered money" but he m...
27 Feb 201844min
A Crisis of Character
America's problems extend far beyond Russiagate. In fact, they extend far beyond porn stars and having half the cabinet under investigation, failures in Puerto Rico and near nuclear war with North Ko...
22 Feb 201846min
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
The Mueller indictment charging 13 Russians for their efforts to illegally influence America's 2016 presidential election rocked Washington and sent shockwaves worldwide. The President of the U.S. tri...
20 Feb 201843min
Olympic Update: What’s More Boring—Curling or Mike Pence?
America has an unrealistic Korea policy (denuclearization) that it is not really pursuing that hard (what with not having an ambassador to South Korea, gutting the State Department and leaving it to M...
15 Feb 201847min
No Kittens Were Harmed In the Making of this Episode
We’ve had nuclear weapons for more than 70 years. But we have never had a president quite as deranged as Donald Trump before and the result has made more people pay much closer attention to U.S. nucl...
13 Feb 201849min
Olympic Torches are Fine As Long as You Keep Them Away from Fuses
The Olympics in Korea have prompted a temporary thaw in North-South relations on the Korean peninsula and plenty of political theater including some from the mummified human remains known to the world...
8 Feb 201842min
