Gregg Field worked with the legendary singer for the last few years of Sinatra's professional career. In honor of Ol’ Blue Eyes’s 100th birthday, Field reflects back on both the good and the bad.

Realized my original posting of this got switched with an article on marijuana.

As I said at the time: the article notes even her opponents don't know the awful screwup of hers and Obama's policy in Libya. How can we get better with such denial and incomprehension of past mistakes?

Caroline Glick may be an avatar of the Angel of Death, but she writes well and convincingly.  This article is a good example of the incredulity and scorn that US policy arouses in the outside world.

"Perhaps the shooters in San Bernadino were just mad at their boss. Maybe Farooq suffered from clinical depression or ADD, or PTSD, or something.

And maybe Islamic State, with its new colony Sirte in “liberated” Libya, just 400 miles from Italy, is on the run. Maybe as well, Turkey is just a patsy and Russia is really Islamic State’s largest trading partner, or maybe Israel is, or Ireland."

Kurdish and Turkish smugglers are transporting oil from ISIS controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and selling it to Israel, according to several reports in the Arab and Russian media. An estimated 20,000-40,000 barrels of oil are produced daily in ISIS controlled territory generating $1-1.5 million daily profit for the terrorist organization.

This isn't good.  It will probably be worse then last weeks. 

AN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Police on Wednesday confirmed there had been a shooting incident at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, a city of more than 215,000 people about an hour east of Los Angeles. Officials initially reported there were up to 20 victims and that up to three shooters were at large.

20 or more people shot in San Bernardino.

I just ran into this catastrophe.

Guns, guns and more guns!

Will the NRA blame THESE VICTIMS?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-respond-report-shooting-san-bernardino-california-n472976

Not a guest Op-Ed, the NYT Editorial Board: He was an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy....The overwhelming weight of the evidence argues for rescinding the honor that (Princeton University) bestowed decades ago on an unrepentant racist.

ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets....shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West. The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations, his office said in a statement, without elaborating. NATO announced that it would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Brussels.....Turkey released a map that it said showed that the plane, flying east, was shot down as it transited a narrow finger of Turkish land less than two miles wide..

What did police do before they had the keys to your house? Law enforcement is tuff.

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