Mark Knows It All

Ferguson, Missouri, is ground zero for everything that is wrong in 21 st Century America.  This is progressive America.  It is a harvest of despair, hate, division, jealousy, racism, class warfare, a collapse of values, the destruction of rule of law, the militarization of our police forces, the death of an independent and neutral press….all mixed into one ugly soup.   It is sad.  It is dangerous.  It is a preview of things to come in a country that is slowly but deliberately destroying the fabric that has held it together for over two hundred years. At the heart of the matter is the tragic shooting of an unarmed black 18 year old young man by a white police officer.  At first blush, it was disturbing.  All he was doing was walking down the street when the cops told him and his friend to move to the sidewalk.  He was shot in the back.  Pictures of a cherubic young man flashed all over the news programs.  He was a gentle gi...

One only has to look at a map to understand American interests in the Mideast.  The United States had Iran surrounded with military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan thereby assuring that in those three countries terrorist mischief would be kept to tolerable levels.  Then, Barack Obama gave it away.  Mired in the muck of political ideology, he unilaterally withdrew our forces from Iraq, and is in the process of doing the same thing in Afghanistan.  Meanwhile, Iran pretends to be cooperating with the United States as it continues to run its centrifuges stockpiling weapons grade uranium.  The result is the beginning of the third Iraq war.  Terrorism from Syria has spread into central Iraq as bad guys even the Taliban find to be despicable establish an Islamist terrorist caliphate in the center of the Mideast threatening Israel, moderate Arab states like Jordan, and the United States itself.  These alleged human beings have brutalized any who oppose...