John T. Reed’s news blog

During World War II, we and the British in separate incidents captured German submarines, more particularly, their code machines and books. This success was treated as an ultra secret. The resulting POWs were hidden and the Red Cross and other rules that we tell their home country about them were violated.Nowadays, Whether the president is Obama, Bush, or even Trump, they brag about the great “treasure trove” of intelligence they got. We saw it with bin Laden and recently wit a SEAL operation in Yemen. This is insane, the 180-degree opposite of the correct course.When the enemy knows or even...

The first case always cited by enemies of the Ninth Circuit Appear court to prove it’s too liberal is their saying the words “under God” should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.   Notwithstanding that the Supreme Court overruled them, the Ninth Circuit’s decision was correct.   Do you know who put those words INTO the Pledge? The Knights of Columbus, the men’s auxiliary to your local Catholic church.   It’s obviously unconstitutional and always has been. The Supreme Court treated the First Amendment words “establish a religion” as if they said CHOOSE a religion. At West Point we had...

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...