Politics

Everyone agrees – other than ISIS and a handful of crazies – that we have to stop the epidemic of mass shootings  (mass shootings have skyrocketed under Obama; 5 of the 12 deadliest mass shootings in history took place during Obama’s first term alone).

President Obama plans to introduce – through executive action – a gun ban on those on no-fly lists.   So does the governor of Connecticut.

Sound like a no-brainer … stopping terrorists from having guns?

One of Donald Trump's recurring refrains ever since the San Bernardino shooting, ostensibly the one which prompted him to declare he would bar Muslims from entering the country - an announcement which has unleashed an unprecedented media scandal - is that the "US is at war." Whether or not that is the case remains to be seen (we expect tens of thousands of US troops to be deployed soon, this time  without the protective cloak of CIA "covert ops") but what is certain is that Trump is merely proposing to do what Democrat Jimmy Carter did back on April 7, 1980, when he banned Iranians from the

I wish I could get inside the heads of the three-quarters of military-age people in this survey who support the IDEA of a war enthusiastically enough to send OTHERS off to potentially die or return minus limbs or with traumatic brain injuries, but not enough to risk those things themselves.

Who could have known - the worst terror attack in a decade was "not" a buying opportunity after all...

Only The Dow (blue) and Nasdaq (black) remain positive (for now...)

At a time when Europe needs a solution to the refugee crisis, and wants to focus its firepower on the organization the killed 130 people in Paris, NATO cannot be happy that the Turks are dragging them into a confrontation with the Russians, and making the whole situation a lot more dangerous than it was before the Nov. 24 incident.