Show of force: President Trump is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest warship, to the Middle East, along with a huge fleet of aerial refueling tankers and F-22 and F-35 strike fighters, according to reports. The massive … Continue reading →
Economics 101, according to Mamdani: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced his $127 billion preliminary budget plan on Tuesday. … Mamdani threatened to raise property taxes by 9.5% and raid the rainy day fund if Gov. Kathy Hochul does … Continue reading →
… despite her abominable performance at the Munich Security Conference, her first big appearance on a foreign policy stage. From Ace, who does not pull his punches: If you took the day off yesterday, unlike me, you may have missed … Continue reading →
(1) RIP Jesse Jackson, 84. Here’s an article that goes into the many facets of Jackson’s life: He was a con artist and a “race pimp.” He was an opportunist, a race hustler, and a corporate shakedown expert who enriched … Continue reading →
Duvall was the character actor par excellence. For a while there, it seemed he was in every movie, usually as some sort of tough guy. The list of his works is long, and most people would cite The Godfather as … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Today is Presidents’ Day or Washington’s Birthday – or both – and this is a repeat of a previous post.] I’m not that old, but pedagogical practices in my youth seem absolutely archaic compared to whatever passes for education … Continue reading →
Trump deregulates climate change policy: This last week, the Trump administration reversed a 2009, Obama-era finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, thus effectively ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that, so the … Continue reading →
Commenter “Niketas Choniates” makes a valid point: … [T]he Epstein correspondence has shown that our “elites” are morally bankrupt clowns who exploit their connections. They don’t have to be in a pedo ring to be unfit for what they are … Continue reading →
I’ve long tried to understand the upper reaches of scientific thought, often to no avail. Even as a very young child, I tried reading books about cosmology or higher-level physics, and although every now and then I managed to absorb … Continue reading →