I remember watching Walt Disney’s film Dumbo’s Feather as a kid. Released in 1941 the story is about a cute baby elephant born with huge ears and forced to perform as a Circus clown. Dumbo is befriended by a mouse who confidently proclaims Dumbo can use his big ears to fly if he will only hold a magic feather in his trunk. Leaping off the high-dive platform with his magic feather Dumbo indeed flies! But he soon discovers the feather isn’t magic at all because he could fly without it. So what...
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Obama: ‘I Don’t Want to be Iraq’s Air Force…’
A friend pointed out to me that in this White House interview Obama told Thomas Friedman (paraphrasing) that during the process of ISIS overrunning much of northern Iraq he...
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A Speech that Would Have Made Waves at AIPAC
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In Syria, Assad Liberates Palmyra While CIA Battles the Pentagon
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Media’s Blind Spot on War’s Victims and Blowback
Over at The Intercept, journalist Glenn Greenwald has written a powerful and insightful examination of how media provides Americans with many details regarding the deaths and...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Cuban Cigars, Prohibitionist States, Stopping Trump, Cruz Hypocrisy, DEA Danger
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted Thursday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher,...
Breaking: Heckuva Job, Merkel – ISIS Terror Squads Swarm Europe
Here's the big -- really big -- story of the day: AP is reporting that ISIS has sent at least 400 fighters into Europe in semi-autonomous cells to rain down a wave of terror that...
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