As most of my readers know, most of the material I post on this website is original. However, every once in a while, I come across an article by another author that’s too good to resist. Recently I’ve come across two such pieces, the first of which I’ll post below. It was sent to me by a colleauge (thanks MEO)
This handsome couple from Australia were on a mission. In 2017 they began a sojourn in which they were to drive across parts of Asia and the Middle East to promote peace and understanding of other cultures. On their blog, Jolie King and Mark Firkin stated: “Our biggest motivation… is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try
Written in conjunction with guest writer LRM. “Climate change” has become quite the “bandwagon.” Anyone who’s “anyone” (as well as all those who, apparently, are “no one”!) need to jump on! For politicians, Hollywood elite, school children suing the government, and aggrieved teenagers it’s the biggest crisis facing our world. Bigger than World War II. Bigger than terrorism. Bigger than
It is amazing to me how darned clever the deep state can be. They have a knack for turning our “national conversation” 180 degrees from where it should be. The latest flap over a so called “whistle blower complaint” (“catchy” title, isn’t it?) is a perfect example. Over the weekend the Democratic leadership and the ever obedient American media carped
The current liberal answer to America’s epidemic of mass murder is to further restrict the availability of guns. Although the feasibility of such a strategy is questionable, it’s easy to see that this strategy is untenable on its face. The availability of firearms, of and by itself, simply does not explain the high frequency of mass shootings that America endures.
Time and time again America is barraged by false claims and accusations emanating from patently biased and, often, psychologically deranged individuals in both politics and the media. This has been happening so often lately that we have become partially inured to the phenomenon. We should NOT, however, let ourselves become complacent in this regard. False accusations and other misinformation, if
As readers of my website will readily attest, I don’t often credit Hillary Clinton with deep or profound thinking. As I have remarked in the past, Ms. Clinton’s intellectual modus operandi usually involves doing polling research to determine where potential voters stand on a given subject and then crafting policy statements to that end. This has lead to some surprising
(Adapted from a previous post on 9/11/16) Today is number eighteen. Eighteen Septembers. Eighteen years. Two Towers. Four jets. One flank of the Pentagon. One field in southwestern Pennsylvania. Three thousand souls. Three presidents. Two wars. Many determined enemies. Eighteen Septembers later, America has moved on. As it HAD to. We treated the few survivors lucky enough to have been
It has become common place these days to refer to generational cohorts by nick names. Those Americans born between 1925 and 1945, for example, are often called, with much justification, the “Greatest Generation.” Those between 1965 and 1980 are called “Generation X.” And 1980 to the late 1990s, “Millennials”, and so forth. My generation, 1946 to 1964, is often called
Dear readers, what follows is short commentary on a number of recent events. Having Fun With The NYPD It took FIVE separate soakings of New York City police officers to finally garner ONE arrest! Apparently NYC’s resident hoodlums were so emboldened by mayor de Blasio’s milquetoast reaction to the first incident, several more hoodlums decided to have some fun with