POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The campaign mantra of the Clinton administration back in the 1990’s is now part of American political lore. “It’s the economy, stupid.” By the end of his presidency there was…

Just until after the election. [I have previously had much to say about this issue in these pages. See Archives nos. 2.2, 5.12, 21.2 (which is about the 2004 election), 29.1,…

Recently arrived in my email was an emotional message with many photos of the victims of the Holocaust (the one in which some 6 million Jews were victim). It had…

April 4 is Martin Luther King Day. Many writers will be penning another encomium to this great leader and visionary, with a lot of allusions to the prospect of an…

I hate morning television, in fact I hate most television. But I was up in the middle of the night with jet-lag, having flown fourteen hours to Hong Kong, so…

Years ago I did a piece on KPBS about a trip I made to the ole USSR. In it I related an encounter with a heavy, Nina Kruschev-looking, Russian woman…

OK, that’s pretty strong language and maybe offensive to some people (who prefer to use nails). But, frankly, I am sick of Iowa and New Hampshire and their honky-white, coverall,…

A friend of mine idolizes Ronald Reagan; “Dutch,” he calls him, like others call him “The Gipper,” phony sobriquets for a phony who dressed up in military uniforms, but never…

There is George Bush, looking as dumb-faced as usual, in front of the cameras last week, and telling General-President Musharraf of Pakistan that he must take off his military uniform.…

By now it should be well known by the lucky readers of these erudite pages that Dragon City Journal has little more than contempt for George W. Bush and his…