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Daily Archives: June 10th, 2013

Attention Deficit Disorder at Work

Speaking of Iran-Contra, to which I alluded in my previous post, it looks like Obama is now the beneficiary of a phenomenon that I, at least, first noticed at the time of that affair. The geezers among us remember that at first, the scandal consisted of the fact that Reagan secretly sold weapons to Iran. […]

One conspiracy theory we always knew was true

We are all familiar with the term “October Surprise”. It refers to an action taken shortly before an election, usually by the party in power, designed to affect the election’s outcome. The term was first used, I think history would show, in 1980, when Republicans loudly proclaimed their certainty that Jimmy Carter would somehow, likely […]