Ken's Comments

The Biden Administration must not understand the situation in the Ukraine if they don't believe building the Keystone Pipeline is important.  On multiple occasions the Biden Administration has said no to reversing position on the Keystone Pipeline as a way to help reduce reliance on Russian oil.  They don't recognize that approving the pipeline provides both short term and long term value to the situation in the Ukraine.  Joe Biden, and the people around him, are so wedded to the Green New Deal that they are yielding an important tool they can use against Vladimir Putin. In response to a question about approving the Keystone Pipeline, Jen Psaki, President Biden's spokesperson, said "It would take years for that to have any impact."*   Pete Buttigieg, Biden's Secretary of Transportation, said the President does not want to implement "permanent solutions" to "short term problems," when asked if the Administration would approve the Keystone Pi...

It has only taken 60 days to see the difference in the Biden Administration's relations with China and Russia versus the Trump Administration's relations. For four years, we heard that President Trump was too nice to dictators, referring in particular to Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.  When Trump met the leaders he was cordial and friendly and did nothing to embarrass them publicly.  This was met with great criticism and, on at least one occasion, it was justified such as President Trump's fumbling of a question about Russia's interference in the 2016 election.   On the other hand, while President Trump was cordial to these leaders, the Trump Administration did things the Obama Administration didn't to curtail Russian expansionism.  The Obama Administration refused to provide military weapons to the Ukraine to help them fight the Russians invading their country, the Trump Administration delivered that aid.  Where President Obama drew a line in the sand when...

This is a series of mixed comments about the news that President Obama signed a treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons. On the positive side, it s good to see the President is trying to reduce nuclear weapons. This is a continuation of a tradition started by President Reagan. On the negative side, I find the media hype a bit ridiculous and I am sure questions about the treaty and a recent rewriting of the nuclear policy will arise. I just wish the discussions of what is, conceptually, a good idea were a bit more toned down. After all, reducing the nuclear weapons in the world is not a bad idea. Russia is a country that could take a turn, politically, for the worse. So reducing the number of nuclear weapons they have pointed at us is not a bad idea. Also, the treaty did not sell out our development of a missle defense shield in Europe - again a good thing. It is good to see that ideas started by Ronald Reagan - reducing nuclear missiles not controlling the increase and def...