WILL 2016 BE THE YEAR THE RUNAWAY TRAIN IS FINALLY STOPPED?”I think it is more important to stop the trends initiated by Obama and the increasingly radical Democrats than to attempt any serious foreign policy initiative,” Michael Kennedy writes at the Chicago Boyz econo-blog. “I have been using the analogy of pulling the cord to stop the train when it is headed for the cliff, even if you don’t know what happens next. I see that Richard Fernandez has now adopted the analogy.