Dear friends and loyal readers,Thank you for your patronage and interest in the blog Beyond the Cusp. This is to inform you that the time has come to put Beyond the Cusp to bed. There were times in the past where taking a couple of weeks off were enough, not this time. What I see coming would not make for good reading and I would be writing articles while praying that I be wrong, not a comfortable position. The e-mail address will remain for some time for any who wish to continue contact with... Read Full Story

Pakistan is quantitatively and qualitatively stepping up production of fissile material in preparation of upgrading and enlarging their nuclear arsenal. When considering their record of proliferation and security breaches in their past nuclear dealings makes this all the more menacing. Now add into the mix the very possibility of imminent control of these armaments by al-Queda and the Taliban and you get a very nervous India. This is exactly what sparked India's Prime Minister Manmohan Si... Read Full Story

Money is sometimes called dough. This begs the question of which will soon be worth more, dough as in money or dough as in doughnut. The way things are shaping up it is quite likely that dough for making bread will be worth more than dough and the slang bread meaning money. The problem for most people is that the combinations of macro and micro economics that go to making up the entire economy is oft well beyond the average person’s understanding. We all have a basic understanding when it com... Read Full Story

The past few weeks have been full of articles decrying the coming demise of the Israel-American alliance in favor of a troika of Europe, the Arab/Muslim States, and America. The virtually universal phrase has been the “Throw Israel under the bus” phrase that caught on during the campaign as candidate Obama disposed of those who became a liability during his run for the Presidency. Truth be told, there have been numerous warnings and ominous threats reported to have come from different White H... Read Full Story

There is a word beginning with ‘F’ that everybody appears to be afraid to use. Many of them know it is the truth but just cannot bring themselves to speak the dreaded word. They have watched as the Federal Government has moved to take the reigns of our financial sector and the automobile industry starting with the deceitful use of TARP Funds by the Bush Administration. Bush and his minions came to Congress and asked for billions of dollars to buy up the toxic debts that were bringing many fin... Read Full Story

President Obama will soon be revealing a nominee for the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land and the one court that is the final arbitrator on justice and the interpretations of our Constitution. So, one has to wonder what kind of person will President Obama seek out? Will he seek a devout jurist who will interpret the written law and only the written law thus preserving the much-valued blind justice mode we have come to revere in this land? Unfortunately, no. President Obama has sta... Read Full Story

This article deserves a disclaimer before reading. I admit that at times I go off the deep end and write crazy stuff. This is the most dire and extreme of any crazies I have ever written. Take with large grain of rock salt. End of warning. Remember, crazy does not necessarily equal not true. The worst-case scenario just over the horizon for the United States, as well as Europe and much of the world, is financial instability and worsening economic outlooks. Despite the reputed signs of a recov... Read Full Story

One thing that can be said about President Obama’s first 100 days, he appeared put the Bush Presidency completely to rest. Almost nothing of the Bush agenda remains intact after Obama has had everybody working overtime to bury every vestige of the Bush Presidency. There is one little problem though. President Obama has no sooner buried everything Bush than he has started to dig much of it back up as he has found a need for them. President Obama is now considering reforming the Military Tribun... Read Full Story

Though President Obama received an overwhelming percentage of the Jewish vote, despite this fact and the claims of many of the paleocons, their vote was not what caused McCain’s loss. McCain lost because, as is always the case, when the Republican candidate is almost indistinguishable from his Democrat opponent on many of the most important issues, he loses the support of most types of true conservatives and is unable to gather sufficient Democrat voters to make up the difference. There are i... Read Full Story

Some in the Republican Party today are morning the passing of Pennsylvania Senator Specter from the ranks of the Republicans to the ranks of the Democrats. Others are celebrating the change and it seems as if the vast majority could not care less. Personally, I am gleeful and dancing a jig at his finally joining the Democrats officially, something he seemed to have done unofficially many many years ago. I had lived in Pennsylvania while he was a Senator. By having this left-wing-nut run as a ... Read Full Story