Still crazy after all these years

                              The 'burgh was not another Ferguson   Last night, looking for something to watch after the Pirates game, I ran into a program on one of the stations used by the NBC affiliate (39) in Pittsburgh. On this program, two lawyers  were discussing with a host the arrests of two Pittsburgh Steeler doofuses who were nailed last Thursday for possession of marijuana, with one glassy-eyed player arrested for a DUI.  The one lawyer was trying to argue that the police had no reason to stop the two doofuses and their female companion. He argued that the doofuses were stopped because they were black.  That does take place, but in this case, if the lawyers and the host had expended any energy scouring the Internet -- as I did -- they would have discovered why this had occurred, and that the police officer indeed had probable cause to make a stop. I thought the same thing when I first read about the arrest on Thursday. How would a policeman in a cruise

                                                     Democrats need more than one candidate for '16 The Democrats must realize something that is vital for the 2016 presidential election: They need more than one candidate for president. Ironically, Hillary Clinton herself has given Democrats a reason to rethink their one-candidate strategy. Clinton criticized Obama's foreign policy today, which means that she is now charting a path that is closer to John McCain than to Barack Obama. http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/hillary-clinton-steps-away-from-obama-on-foreign-policy-20140317 Many Democrats have been clamoring for Sen. Elizabeth Warren to enter the race, and one reason that they favor Warren is how close Clinton is to Wall Street. Warren is a Harvard professor who has Wall Street running scared. If Hillary runs against Mitt Romney in 2016 -- or any other right-wing candidate -- will there really be any difference in terms of financial policy? Rememb

                                           Use of military should be the last resort                                                       Obama read the wrong book I have written previously that President Barack Obama chose the wrong reading list when deciding upon how he should govern in the White House. While Doris Kearns Goodwin's treatise on Abraham Lincoln, "Team of Rivals," is an excellent work, Obama should have studied a 20th Century leader who had a spine of steel as he faced down his most significant opponent in the Cold War. When America U-2 planes discovered that the Soviet Union was placing missiles in Cuba that could carry nuclear weapons in 1963, President John F. Kennedy put together a group to advise him that on the confrontation. It was later dubbed Ex-Comm. These included some cabinet members and military and national security advisers. These men were advisors, and the one with whom JFK felt the least affinity was Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was c