Nobody Ever Won An Election By Spitting

I Have A Range Of Scenarios. One Of Them Is A Chaos, That What Could Happen Is Congress Does Step Up A Little Bit And The Administration Is Paralyzed. And We Go Through All Kinds Of Constitutional Crises, Impeachment Or The 25th Amendment Removal Process. Another Frightening Scenario Is Donald Trump Is Steering His Way To A Series Of International Confrontations At The Same Time As He's Appeasing Russia.

Crown Prince Rupprecht, The Heir To The Throne Of Bavaria Who Commanded The Army Group Facing The British At The Somme, Was The Senior Direct Lineal Heir Of James Stuart, The Old Pretender Of 1715. Had There Been Any Jacobites Left In Britain In 1916, They Would Have Had To Regard This South German Prince As Their Rightful King.

Journalism Can Go Right Up To The Door Of The Room In Which The Decisions Are Made. A Novel Can Go Inside The Room - And Inside The Character's Heads.

A Generation Ago, Or Two, When There Were Three Channels, Plus Pbs, And When You Needed - When You Needed 15 Million People To Make A Living, The Media Could Focus On The Broad Country. And Most People Had No Choice About Getting Political Information. It Was There At 6:30 Whether You Wanted It Or Not.

One Might Almost Say, To Adapt Von Clausewitz, That Modern Warfare Is Pr By Other Means. And War-winning Strategies Mean That Modern Armies Most Stop Treating Their Communications Operations As Secondary Assignments Or (as Still Too Often Happens) Dumping Grounds For Officers Who Have Failed At Everything Else - But As Missions Absolutely Essential To Success.