Author: CBD

At the risk of violating the low standards of this weekly post, I am going to discuss something that while it is unarguably a first-world problem, it is also an issue in our current social and economic predicament. Recently I ate at an excellent restaurant that is also quite popular, so they manage their reservations…

Unpredictability is a tremendous advantage in wartime, as any study of the greatest generals in history will quickly reveal. But is it equally effective as a tool in the geopolitical machinations of sovereign countries? Yes, and President Trump demonstrated that in his four years in office, as did President Reagan in his eight years. Never…

Yeah, yeah…I often rant and rave about the destruction of language and its co-option by the left for purposes of political power. How they use language is insidious and chilling, because their goal is the destruction of Judaeo-Christian social morality and ethics. Look no further than the blurring of the formerly clear lines between Man…

Childish, vindictive, irrationally angry and prone to illogical outbursts…no, that’s not a description of a difficult five-year-old…it’s a fair description of the Democrats and their never-ending quest to destroy President Trump and scrub his name from history. de Blasio of course is in his last months of rule of NYC*, so of course he is…

What a shock! A couple of leftists figure out a way to make a lot of money (how very socialist of them!) by selling ice cream along with a large dose of agrarian leftist bullshit (no rBGH in our ice cream!). They then cashed out 20 years later and sold their company to Unilever for…

America has fought many wars, and many hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans have fallen in countless battles across the centuries and across the world. But Veterans Day honors all who served, and it is an unalloyed good thing. We often focus on the men who saw combat, and their stories are an amazing…

Niche economies within the larger context of the world economy (heavy industry and other energy-intensive categories) are certainly possible. Singapore and Israel come to mind, and of course within countries there are areas that are focused on things other than industry, manufacturing, and other traditional drivers of growth and wealth. But somebody has to make…

That Gavin Newsom is a sleazy, scummy, authoritarian functionary who failed upward to become the governor of California is not news. And his political philosophy: cronyism combined with heavy-handed nanny-state intrusions is similarly well known. But here he demonstrates a relatively new and profoundly disgusting tactic. Instead of recognizing that as governor he could easily…

Our military is rapidly devolving into a European-style pseudo-tough armed force that is more interested in post-modern lunacy than actually learning how to fight and win wars. No matter what obfuscation emerges from the slimy maws of the current leaders of our military, our readiness is pathetic, our focus is on everything other than fighting,…