John T. Reed’s news blog

What happened to the Wall Street Journal? In today’s issue, I saw article after article pushing a liberal Democrat view of Trump..Janet Hook, Kristina Peterson, and Reid J. Epstein said Trump was stoking a war with Dems and creating unease with Republicans dimming chances for cross party compromise and limiting what he can get done..Losing politicians are big on compromise and reaching across the aisle and all that. It is their substitute for victory. Trying to con the winners into letting the losers have their way. Be nice to your bitter opponents and you’ll get more accomplished. There could be...

Here are my thoughts on U.S. policy toward Israel: Israel is not a strategic country. A strategic country is one that can take an action or refuse to take an action and thereby hurt or help other countries. Examples include closing canals or straits like the Panama, Hormuz, or Suez; ceasing to sell oil, attacking other countries with a powerful military Israel is a small country in terms of GDP, population, and geographic size. In terms of GDP adjusted for cost of living, Israel ranks 56th, just below Kuwait and just above Greece. In terms of population, Israel ranks 98th,...

There are some who believe the Senate with its undemocratic rules like the filibuster and it long six-year terms is needed to have a more slow-moving, thoughtful, less emotional and therefore superior house of Congress that produces better legislative decisions than the more mob-like House. So raise the percentage needed to make a law Folks, if that sort of thing is what you want, switch to national binding referendums and a citizen congress and adjust the percentage needed to make a law. 50% is not sacrosanct.We can make it 52% or 58% or 60% or 66%—whatever we want. Amendments to...

I just did something no one else in America has done apparently. I read the UN Security Council Resolution most Americans and Israelis are in a road rage about. Here it is: http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/SRES2334-2016.pdf Most readers will probably find it easier to read the Wikipedia synopsis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2334 This is a non-binding censure of Israel for deliberately moving over 100,000 Israelis just since Obama’s 2008 inauguration and a total of 570,000 Israelis since 1967 into territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. That flagrantly violates international law, namely the Fourth Geneva Convention, Part III, Article III, Section 49 which prohibits...

If you pay any attention to NCAA football, you know that some teams have thrown one hell of a lot of passes in recent years. It’s called the “Air Raid” offense. Two guys were mainly behind that: Hal Mumme and Rick Leach. Leach never played college football. He was a lawyer. He just helped revolutionize it. I knew Hal and Rick. I was a columnist on Football Clock Management for a new magazine called American Football Quarterly in 1998 and 1999. My book Football Clock Management came out in 1997. AFQ had two conventions. I was a speaker at both. So were Hal and...