The Romney Election Strategy
Presidential possibility Mitt Romney has a 59 point economic plan to implement his vow to crackdown on China's trade policy. What is unusual is that Romney’s business experience has identified him with...
View ArticleWhy Romney - Ryan Will Fail
In picking Paul Ryan to be his vice presidential nominee, Romney has surrendered the possibilities of expansion of his party into new areas that might deepen its appeal to the non-conservative voters...
View ArticleOur wars are not a factor at the political conventions
Some voters and foreign-policy experts tried to make the 2012 presidential campaign a referendum on foreign policy. They are failing: they can't get the candidates to focus on Afghanistan, Iran, or...
View ArticleThe Real Reagan Lesson for Romney/Ryan
President Ronald Reagan has become the patron saint of political Republicans, an inspiration and a model for their few glory days since Abraham Lincoln. He has a lesson for the Romney/ Ryan ticket, a...
View ArticleObama Will Win in a Landslide
President Barack Obama leads Republican challenger Mitt Romney by significant margins in virtually every political category. Worse for Romney, his campaign lacks the plan and focus to reverse his...
View ArticleThe US and Israel get closer on Iran Policy
Ever since Barack Obama became President of the United States, American relations with Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu have deteriorated over relations with Iran. Netanyahu insists on harsh threatening...
View ArticleThe Drones: Cowboy Behavior
Iran’s defense minister confirmed that Iran fired on a US drone unmanned aircraft that had entered Iranian airspace. US says it was a routine surveillance mission using international airspace over the...
View ArticleThe Struggle against Poverty & Inequality
The popular movements in the 1960’s, women’s reproductive rights, civil rights, sexual rights and so forth left us unprepared for the slowdown in growth and the rise in inequality in the current...
View ArticleInequality is the Real Financial Crisis
The reelection of President Obama is subject to many interpretations. Each side debated issues that affect a long malaise into which the economy seems to be settling, and the growing divide between the...
View ArticleJohn Kerry's First Campaign
On October 15, 1969, popular protests against the Vietnam War peaked when 10 million people in thousands of communities in all fifty states, students, non-students, the middle-aged and the middle...
View ArticleThe Windfall of Immigration Reform
The Democrats have demographic dreams. Liberals are counting on population and voting trends to doom Republicans to minority status that will last for a long time. This expectation is at the heart of...
View ArticleOur Tax Crisis
Wealthy investors felt that the 14,000 level of the DOW was worrisome, even dangerous because it might be the result of the money the Federal Reserve has put into the financial system. They worried...
View ArticleCome Home, America
Everyone talks about getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about Germany and Japan where our military has been in force since the 1940s? Now, Secretary of State John Kerry is expanding...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Nuclear Arsenal
The leader of North Korea, Kim John Un says he will expand his nuclear weapons arsenal sharply, raising the stakes in the standoff with the United States and its allies. He ordered his underlings to...
View ArticleWe May Never Know Why
We may never know why the brothers Tsarnaev performed their murderous actions at the Boston Marathon. These men, we imagine were sick and distant but before the murders they seemed to be one of us....
View ArticleUS Intervention in Syria
Pressures are increasing on President Barack Obama to intervene militarily in the Civil War in Syria, a war that seeks to topple the dynasty that has ruled Syria for generations with brutal and...
View ArticleThe USA and China Maintain World Peace
International security in the post-Cold War era is driven by the deadly mix of nuclear proliferation, rogue states, and international terrorists. The second concern the potentially disruptive impact...
View ArticleProtect Our Civilization from Destruction
US intervention in the civil war in Syria has been promoted by a propaganda campaign between the Russians and the USA accusing dictator Assad of using poison gas against the rebels. The accusation has...
View ArticleMoney Will Find a Way
Fifty years ago some investment bonds were less a piece of clever financial engineering than elaborate tax dodges. The increasing movement of money into speculative trading activities by the big...
View ArticleA World Without Work
A World Without WorkBy Jerome Grossman Our society may soon be rich enough that fewer and fewer people will need to work, where leisure becomes universally accessible, where part time jobs replace the...
View ArticleHow the Syria Crisis was Defused
President Barack Obama's handling of the Syria crisis had little resonance with his primary audiences. His Arab audiences puzzled over his focus on death by chemical weapons much more than the deaths...
View ArticleWar Weary
War WearyBy Jerome Grossman The Wall Street Journal reports in its survey of popular opinion polls that Americans across the board think the US is doing too much abroad, a shift from eight years ago....
View ArticleSaving America’s Healthcare
Under no circumstances can the Democrats or President Obama cave in to Republican demands to undo or delay Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Healthcare Act. Republican politicians and their...
View ArticlePolitical Turmoil
Political turmoil at home has undercut a plan by the United States to focus more on Asia as a growing and dynamic factor in world affairs. White House energies and strategies had “pivoted” in...
View ArticleJerome Grossman Eulogy
John Isaacs December 22, 2013 Jerome Grossman funeral JEROME GROSSMAN A LOVE AFFAIR WITH POLITICS AND ISSUES Jerry Grossman’s love affair with politics and issues almost matched his love affair with...
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