NEW ROME DC Part I or “Rulers, Sex, Generals, and National Security”

By: jamesmpratt (Diary)  |  November 14th at 10:55 PM  | 

  “The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool: come and see.” Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1   ROME BC Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra opens with a line from Philo who is lamenting the transformation of Rome’s greatest general, Marc Antony, into a fool because of the allure of Cleopatra and the opiate she had become to him. Thus ended the constitutional | Read More »

COLIN POWELL ENDORSEMENT, NATIONAL SECURITY or “Endorsing White House Failure and Cover Ups?”

By: jamesmpratt (Diary)  |  October 26th at 06:23 PM  | 

LEADERS, REPUTATIONS and ENDORSEMENT!  Leaders act. Pretenders talk. Heroes run to the fire and cowards walk. Republican, Four Star General, former Secretary of State, and former National Security Adviser Colin Powell is a proven leader. He endorsed the sitting President on October 25, 2012; this the second time in four years. As a private citizen this great man has rolled the dice on transparent Presidential failure and | Read More »