Sounds like some sort of convoluted riddle, doesn’t it? A riddle Joe Biden had trouble solving: ‘The first lady’s husband contacted COVID,’ President Biden said during an Equal Pay Day celebration for Women’s history month. Someone off to the side … Continue reading →
Predators prey on the weak, and the US is now weak and clearly perceived as weak. It’s not just Biden or Harris themselves. They are merely the current manifestation of a long decline. We’ve reached a state in which people … Continue reading →
I wrote “postponed” because I believe that the Biden administration has not given up on this pernicious endeavor. But here’s the news: For the last several weeks, reports of a new JCPOA “nuclear” deal with Iran being imminent have surfaced. … Continue reading →
Here’s another recommended aritcle, this one on the parallels between cancel culture and what’s happening to Russia right now in terms of sanctions by private companies or private groups in particular. The excesses have been piling up. Don’t play Tchaikovsky? … Continue reading →
As Obama himself reportedly said: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to F*** things up.” And yet Joe’s ability in that regard is so prodigious that it’s hard not to underestimate it. And Biden’s Iran deal is so astoundingly awful that it’s … Continue reading →
I know; I know – the jokes write themselves. Biden’s mind? What’s that? But I continue to think that Biden has more input into all of this than most people believe. And of course, whether he does or doesn’t, the … Continue reading →
…that I haven’t made many specific predictions about what will happen in the war in Ukraine, or about details such as bombings and casualties and the like. I leave that to others, and there’s plenty of it to go around … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” managed to watch the speech and has this summary. I haven’t watched the speech, have only read a few excerpts, and find I’m not even interested in commentary about it. That’s a new low point of interest for … Continue reading →
(1) For sanctions to work, they should not necessarily be considered a deterrence or a punishment. I suppose they would be a deterrence if the leader or leaders involved could be deterred that easily, but that sort of leader isn’t … Continue reading →
Here’s a thread to talk about Biden’s speech. I’ll probably discuss it further this evening.
Continue reading →When Obama was elected I suspected that I knew what we were in for concerning foreign policy: withdrawing from Iraq, empowering Iran, weakening our military, and general movement towards the leftist position. When Trump was elected, I was worried that … Continue reading →
The money angle on Putin and Ukraine: Before Biden became President, the U.S. was energy independent and an exporter of energy. [Biden lowered] American production and remov[ed] Trump’s restrictions on the Nordstream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. His … Continue reading →