Job of dignified branch to win the people the efficient branch to run the country

Walter Bagehot would have loathed government by referendum is archived here because its good.

Trump's dumb ass government at work caused deaths of four military advisers in Niger

President of Chad Idriss Deby is an Authoritarian, but he leads a very good military keeping order in Mali, Niger and Nigeria as well as in his own country.  Its gotten so that both the French and U. S.  base their military outpost for the region in Chad. Rachel Maddow last night uncovered a really interesting point that the recent declaring of Chad as a North Korea and Venezuela outlaw state from which no visa will be issued caused the retrenching of Chad forces  and made possible the recent ambush and deaths of four American military advisers on what was thought to be a no conflict patrol in Niger.

The power struggle in Raqqa among Sunni rebels will mutate into another ISIS

Inside Raqqa With Fighters Who Faced ISIS shows the defeat of the Sunni Arab Caliphate by a coalition of Syrian Kurdish pesh merga and Sunni rebels to the Bashar al Assad Shiite regime. It's a conquest that has no hand off toward a moderate politic.  The Kurdish retrieval of the Kurdish city of Kobani East of Raqqa from the Caliphate was sustainable because of the Kurd's moderate politic, but Raqqa is not Kurdish nor are they welcome to govern the city.  The political power struggle among the various Sunni rebels to govern Raqqa is sure to mutate into another terrorist group.    

Kurdish nationhood would take out a big swath of instability in the region

Supporting Kurdish nationhood goes beyond fairness to understanding that they have the political unity to pacify the region. Their pesh merga militia independently took back the Syrian city of Kobani from ISIS in 2015.  Kobani is a Kurdish city and was a difficult hold for a Sunni Arab overlord trying to govern a population of non brethrens fighting for nationhood.  It was an example of a moderate politic defeating an extreme one.  It caught the eye of the U.S. military as the weapon to defeat radical Islamists.  As usual with our military interventions is the lack of thought given to what happens after winning the battle.  Conquest leave a political vacuum. While diplomatically inconvenient Kurdish nationhood brings a moderate self sustaining politic to fill the void in large parts of Iraq and Syria. Now that the bonds of those whose enemy is my enemy dissolve with the vanquishing of the common enemy the region will once again go back to tribal factions. Kurdish nationhood would take out a big swath of instability in the region.

Propose joint tour by Ross & Mattis promoting U.S. location and opening armory

Its depressing to watch Congressman Ron DeSantis of Florida on CNBC SQUAWK BOX this morning reaffirming a policy of direct North Korean confrontation rather than looking at Southeast Asia region and China's contention that it is in their sphere of influence. The question is, influence to do what?  Logically it would be to secure the regions tech logistics chain that draws in raw materials and finished components fueling China's economic growth.  Apparently the logic that Kim Jong Un is an existential threat to their prosperity is not understood by General Secretary Xi Jinping so the best U.S. policy would be to make it clear.
Have Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Defense James Mattis make a joint Southeast Asia tour through Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and others.  One promoting the U.S. as a safe place for production and assembly for those country's tech companies to have up and running should a nuclear holocaust breakout disrupting any source within a thousand mile radius of Pyongyang.  The other opening the door to America's armory so that those nations can protect themselves from the rogue bully that China won't take out,        

Foxconn should push more clients to assemble and produce in U.S. away from Rocketman

Despite its admirable democratic evolution, Taiwan receives precious little recognition. With Xi Jinping's failure to take out the rogue neighborhood bully playing with nuclear matchsticks putting the region in existential jeopardy, the U.S. should forget the one China it agreed to back in the Nixon era. We should open up our arsenal to Taiwan so it can protect itself and since the kid is putting the region's tech logistics chain in jeopardy, Company's such as Foxconn should push more of their clients to produce and assemble tech item in the U.S. and away  from the North Korean danger  zone, one that has a thousand mile radius from Pyongyang.  

Connecticut in a Greek like debt corner it can't get out of

Connecticut has painted itself into a debt corner leaving it with no option but to raise taxes and cut services for the next generation.