The boldest foreign policy vision in a hundred years or more, bar none

If nine out of ten people in the Gaza Strip have lost their homes, and some of those homes might not be rebuilt for more than a decade, even forgetting the rest of the infrastructure required to support a community, where are these people supposed to live in the interim?  In tents?  In the rubble?… Continue reading The boldest foreign policy vision in a hundred years or more, bar none

Are we nothing more than massive colonies of self-replicating viruses traveling through time?

The legendary biologist Richard Dawkins returns to evolutionary theory with his third and fourth big idea, ushering in a true paradigm shift in how we view ourselves, the world, and the DNA that builds bodies to interact between the two. Imagine if you can, extracting the DNA of an ancient eukaryotic cell, the earliest complex… Continue reading Are we nothing more than massive colonies of self-replicating viruses traveling through time?

Advise and consent or rave and rant?  There was no decency or sanity to be had at the Senate’s confirmation hearings

Previously, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh’s hearings in September 2018 were a high, or perhaps, I should say, low water mark in this regard, but we have to give the good Senators credit for outdoing themselves at least. Over the past several decades, Senate confirmation hearings have transformed from staid, boring, if-not-banal formalities into a… Continue reading Advise and consent or rave and rant?  There was no decency or sanity to be had at the Senate’s confirmation hearings

Democrats and the media are spreading more fear and confusion than anyone else

They also revealed the reality that not a penny of spending is wasted in their eyes, no cuts are possible, and any cut will be deemed a catastrophe.  Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily pausing federal grants to third parties including non-governmental organizations, as part of what I have been… Continue reading Democrats and the media are spreading more fear and confusion than anyone else

Stuck on Nazi stupid

Democrats and their media allies have decided that President Trump is, at least for now, untouchable, having already survived the onslaught and prospered, but for some reason they believe the same overheated rhetoric, rhetoric that clearly devalues the Holocaust as they claim others are doing, will take down Elon Musk.  If you needed any more… Continue reading Stuck on Nazi stupid

The Full Trump from Day One

Before the inauguration speech was even over, President Trump declared it was a new Golden Age in America, promised to take back the Panama Canal and reinvigorated the much maligned phrase, Manifest Destiny, this time applying it to our quest to conquer the stars, and he was just getting warmed up. Love him or hate… Continue reading The Full Trump from Day One

David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

Mr. Lynch was a director’s director, an artist who operated well outside the mainstream, sometimes far outside of it, but whose appeal occasionally crossed over in both classic films such as The Elephant Man and the birth of prestige TV with Twin Peaks.  David Lynch as had a career perhaps as strange as the film’s… Continue reading David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

Washington will never be the same…

Whether you love him or hate him, President Trump is far more than a politician, having become a cultural figure that represents perhaps better than anyone else the key issues of our time, and his retaking the Presidency marks a clear before and after. When President Joe Biden was set to take office in 2021,… Continue reading Washington will never be the same…

If only Democrats had a time machine, they could go back and defeat President-elect Donald Trump or could they?

Between Trump’s sentencing, Biden claiming he could win the election, and the release of the Special Counsel report, it’s like we’re stuck in a time loop, repeating the same thing and expecting a difficult result, or progressives are hoping for a time machine to go back and replay events to generate a different result. As… Continue reading If only Democrats had a time machine, they could go back and defeat President-elect Donald Trump or could they?

The LA fires and the reality that not all politics is bad, though not all arguments are equal

We should condemn those who would make sport of anyone’s suffering for any reason, but in a world where everything is political, there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion on what led to the destruction and what could have done better once it was unleashed. The fires in Los Angeles have prompted a range… Continue reading The LA fires and the reality that not all politics is bad, though not all arguments are equal