Greece as Destiny

Unaltered on our current path, we can see the future that awaits us in the social, economic and political disintegration spreading through Greece and, slowly but surely, much of the rest of Europe.

Our problem will be that, unlike Greece, who are we to turn to for a bailout when that day of reckoning comes?

'Spiking the Football'

Not only is President Obama's OBL ad blatantly hypocritical -- having so righteously stressed the importance of not "spiking the football" after his death -- and absurd (who wouldn't have given the order to take out bin Laden?), but it raises a question that not many will ask and whose answer is obvious: What would be the political fallout if a Republican president had questioned his Democratic opponent in that way? I get a headache just thinking about the hyperventilating outrage about questioned patriotism and using national security for political gain.