The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7…
Turkiye sees an opportunity to turbocharge its rise as a Eurasian Great Power along Russia’s entire southern periphery in ways that autonomously align with American grand strategic interests. Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns the recent police raid against suspected ethnic Azeri…
One of the most popular journalists and bloggers in the US, Candace Owens, shared a wild story. About nine months ago, she started investigating claims that Macron’s wife, Brigitte, is not a woman but a man. Anything’s possible these days. veryone saw that Brigitte allegedly hits Macron. That wasn’t…
A warning to New York City. The unthinkable has happened. In last week’s Democratic primary, New York City—America’s financial capital and largest metropolis—chose Zohran Mamdani as its mayoral nominee. A 33-year-old socialist who promises to implement Marx’s economic theories in a city of 8.3 million people now stands…
The ‘long war’ to subvert Iran, weaken Russia, BRICS and China is on hold. It is not over. At one level, Iran plainly ‘won’. Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid ‘Victory’. Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump…
The demographic most eager for socialism comes from the thwarted middle class. Zohran Mamdani’s victory last week continues to generate takes. Some conservatives view him as the candidate of affluent whites against the “anti-socialist” elements of the multiracial working class. Other conservatives, such as Stephen Miller, argued that “unchecked migration…
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. I always think of the above lines from T.S. Eliot’s “The…
Our country barely exists because the FBI was never an honest law enforcement organization. It has been corrupt since its inception more than 100 years ago (part of the Coup of 1913). I first came in contact with the FBI about 70 years ago as a State Trooper, when…
I propose that we accompany physical detox with a verbal detox: we need to purge our bloated vocabulary of several concepts that are poisoning our understanding of ourselves and the world. These concepts have been elaborated by people who would describe themselves as “self-aware,” “progressive,” and “liberated,” but they are actually…
There’s a reason most liberals avoid Joe Rogan’s podcast like it’s radioactive. And that’s because when they can’t hide behind scripted questions and friendly hosts, they literally fall apart. And this week, it was Bernie Sanders who walked straight into the fire and got himself torched. Bernie thought he…
