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Is the Iranian government in its death throes or not?
There are reports of more protests and greater crackdowns on the protestors. Who will win this time?: As protests against Iran’s government swelled significantly in size on Thursday night, the regime responded in many places by opening fire. A Tehran … Continue reading →
Minnesota, hub of the left
So much news about Minnesota and especially Minneapolis these days. When I was younger, Minnesota wasn’t in the news all that much, and when it was it was either because of Hubert Humphrey or weather that could freeze you in … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/9/2026
A rehearsal of a bit of the Moiseyev’s dance “Partisans.” I saw it on stage in 1958 and it made an enormous impression on me. Still does:
Continue reading →The trade deficit is reduced
From Forbes: The trade deficit—a measurement by which the cost of a country’s imports is worth more than its exports—shrank to $29.4 billion in October, the narrowest gap since June 2009 and a 39% decrease from September ($48.1 billion), the … Continue reading →
The Russians and Chinese can’t be all that happy about the performance of their defense systems in Venezuela
This was one of the things that struck me the most about the recent US operation against Venezuela’s Maduro: … EurAsia Times, an Indian publication that is no friend of Trump, reported, “Boasting one of the strongest militaries in Latin … Continue reading →
Roundup
(1) Vance continues to serve up weak tea on the anti-Semitism among “influencers” such as Carlson: “I think we need to reject all forms of ethnic hatred, whether it’s antisemitism, anti-Black hatred, anti-white hatred,” he said. “And I think that’s … Continue reading →
Open thread 1/8/2025
ICE agent shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis
Left and right describe the incident very very differently. For example, from the right: Dramatic video purportedly shows the moment an ICE agent opened fire and killed a 37-year-old woman who attempted to barrel her SUV into the officer’s path … Continue reading →
Neves Valente – remember him?
The killings of the Brown students and the MIT professor weren’t that long ago (less than a month), but so many events have intervened that those murders may seem more distant in time. Even the killer’s name – Claudio Neves … Continue reading →
Did Rubio and Cruz change their minds about J6?
Commenter “Niketas Choniates” asks: If Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, just to name three from the top of my head, have repudiated their earlier remarks on what J6 was and what legal consequences should happen to those … Continue reading →
Venezuela is about the oil, but not in the way the left says
Here’s an article about the Venezuelan oil industry. Venezuela’s oil is very thick and needs to be mixed with thinner oil to be usable: … [T]he oil that in the past has been used for this [thinning process] is American … Continue reading →