Did Malia and Sasha watch?

Mike Cronin

From insidetv.ew.com State of the Union draws smallest audience in 14 years By James Hibberd on Jan 29, 2014 at 4:53PM twitter-bird-16x16.png President Obama’s State of the Union Address drew the fewest viewers of his presidency Tuesday night. In …..

No water needed here, though vodka would likely have helped a bit…

Mike Cronin

Wow. Who wrote this jumble of platitudes and decided to have Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers recite them in the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address? The good thing for the GOP is that no one …..

Conservatives and LBJ

Mike Cronin

Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the most vilified presidents. Unable to do what no other president had had to do before — exit a war without victory — LBJ kept the troops in Vietnam in what most began to …..

Iraq’s not going away

Mike Cronin

The “PBS NewsHour” lists the names and ages and displays photos of those American men and women who have lost their lives serving their country in the military. It is always deeply sad and sobering. Almost all are young, some …..

Time to exit markets?

Mike Cronin

This ultimate bear of a guy has, by his own nonenclature of “Dr. Doom”, been so much more wrong than right over the last few years. So the usually bullish better be afraid, very afraid, now. Roubini has turned optimistic. …..