Raven Report Wisdom is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. John McCain I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the... ...

Under the Constitution, giving ‘aid and comfort’ to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. Walter Cronkite The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define... ...

There is a major difference between China and the United States.   China is a dictatorship and the dictator is Xi Jinping.  China today resembles Rome in the year 100 BC.   That is when the Republic of Rome became a dictatorship.   Julius Caesar took control of the Roman Republic and established ...

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war ‘cool.’ As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. Noah Feldman While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the... ...

The Liberal (Democratic) Party in one which believes that, as new conditions and problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of GGovernment itselfto find new remedies with which to meet them.  The liberal part insists that the Government has the... ...

The South China Sea has been one of the political hotspots in the global geopolitical environment.  Want to examine and source of the political conflict.[i] Briefly, China has asserted that the South China Sea conveyors. It is been theirs for thousands of years.   To make the point strong they have... ...

THE USE – ABUSE – OF TARIFFS         Martin Feldstein wrote a short editorial in the Wall Street Journal that I disagree with.[i] Martin purposely misses the whole point of Donald Trump’s strategy with China.  How so?  He underlies the article with a simplifying and erroneous assumption.  He assumes... ...

  Judge Tanya Chutkin                                                                                              ... ...

  When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered. Christopher Dodd Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother... ...

China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development  Xi_Jinping. The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that... ...