Overturning 22 would open the way to Obama running. I don't think Trump could countenance the risk - likelihood, in fact - of losing to Barack Hussein Obama as he likes to call him. (View Post)

I would have thought it was obvious that preventing Russia rolling through Ukraine and abutting NATO territory is well worth any level of investment. A Russian victory won't end with Putin doing… (View Post)

Sorry, but that artless last sentence did make me smile. (Suspect the answer is, more than likely.) (View Post)

I quite like reading obituaries. Garth Hudson, late of The Band, has just passed away, aged 87. This is the penultimate line of his obit (in The Guardian) which followed a brief description of his ba… (View Post)

I remember Christopher Hitchens remarking that whenever one of these hyper-ventilating grifting pastor-types came to prominence he would quietly make a note in his dairy, and calmly wait until the in… (View Post)