Perhaps this is the first of the few early Trump victories. I don’t know. Some of you may think you do.

While reading The Economist in flight I learned that only Syria sends more immigrants to Quebec than France – interesting.

“This episode is a small symptom of America’s weakened Navy. Today, as in the 1920s and ‘30s, Washington has forgotten Teddy Roosevelt’s advice to speak softly and carry a big stick.

Few people in Okinawa think open hostilities with China are imminent, or perhaps even likely.

Connecticut’s top tax rate rate is now higher than the 5.1% flat rate in the state formerly known as as Taxachusetts.

Cuba is a communist dictatorship in a time warp. For some, that lends it a rebellious allure. They talk id seeing old Havana before its charm is ‘spoiled’ by visible signs of prosperity, such as anike and Starbucks.

Will they work with him?

The U.S. still imports oil (for now), but net imports have declined by half. America is now the world’s biggest natural-gas producer and has become a net exporter.

“Simply put, I do not believe that the preferential option for the poor means a preferential option for big government.”

‘Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof.’