A political blog
Good morning kids. It’s Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I’m going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding. And away we go. I don’t claim to be an expert…
Good morning kids. Let’s start off with a couple of positive items that surprisingly come from a judiciary that over the years, and especially during and as a direct result of the dawning of the Donald Trump era has devolved into a direct threat to the very foundations of American government and the stability and security…
Good morning kids. Not to toot my own horn but am I good or what?! In yesterday’s Morning Report, I wrote: we have two separate shootings on two of the nation’s top campuses, Brown University and at MIT. . .Are these incidents all connected somehow. Given the assassination of Charlie Kirk and several failed attempts on President…
Inflation is a cold-hearted bitch. It steals our paychecks, and we will never recover the loss. Sure, compensation eventually catches up (mostly), but the gap between rising prices and rising wages is significant. And inflation destroys any possibility of planning for many companies. How do you budget for next year or next quarter if you…
Good morning kids. First we have reports of wildfires with near hurricane force winds spreading in the high plains. Prayers for the safety of all of those affected as well as for the firefighting crews and first responders who will hopefully be able to get the situation under control as rapidly as possible. Elsewhere in…
Will Ukraine be a flashpoint for a Korean conflict, Trump’s intemperate Reiner comments, it’s the economy stupid! the Monroe/Trump Doctrine, Bondi, Brown, MIT, and more!
Good morning kids. From friend and co-blogger CBD’s excellent Morning Rant essay yesterday on potential US involvement in Ukraine. Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy. I read that and then…
Repeat after me: “We are not the world’s policeman.” To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, “Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine.” So the idea of some security agreement with Ukraine that mirrors NATO’s Article 5 is essentially allowing Ukraine into NATO without all of that pesky cooperation and standardization and…
Good morning kids. Frankly, the less said about a certain celebrity, who along with his wife was brutally slain at the hands of their own son, the better. Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim and, despite his not being in the wrong in his opinion, was this really appropriate, or beneficial…
Good morning kids. I’m absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah,…