US Senate Majority Swallows Spider to Catch Fly – Cat to Follow?

Although any of them who have looked at the portrait on a US ten-dollar bill have seen Alexander Hamilton, international readers of this Web log may not have heard of Aaron Burr.  We Americans, on the other hand, relish a good fight, and every single intelligent, educated, literate, well-informed one of us who recognizes the… Continue reading US Senate Majority Swallows Spider to Catch Fly – Cat to Follow?

DC Government Endures Humiliation and Injustice

Maybe there were several hundred thousand federal workers with nothing to do this week, but Gretchen and I have been as busy as one-armed paper hangers.  Apparently, there’s nothing like the economic repercussions of a government shutdown combined with the impending financial cataclysm of a US government default to increase the demand for nearly every… Continue reading DC Government Endures Humiliation and Injustice

Romney Sojourning Planet Ryan

Yet another working Saturday for Gretchen and me – and a solid nine-hour day it was, too.  I was so busy with consultations concerning aid to the Syrian rebels, terrorist attacks in the Sinai peninsula and anti-Muslim arson riots in Burma that Gretchen found it necessary to wait until my rather late lunch to tell… Continue reading Romney Sojourning Planet Ryan