President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are at war. The tech CEO is sharing decade-old tweets from Trump about his professed fidelity to fiscal responsibility, and Trump in turn accuses Tesla owner Musk of going “crazy” after the president “took away his EV mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars.”…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are having a messy public spat over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which would fund mass deportations while cutting some spending elsewhere. Musk’s main concern is that the bill does not formally codify DOGE’s budget cuts and continues deficit spending at an unsustainable level. For those…
For many years the most widely read articles on my website were the ones exposing the false history of World War II with which Americans are indoctrinated. Indeed, all of the tales of America’s wars fed to us are false, including the First World War and Lincoln’s invasion of the…
Chaos erupted on Saturday evening after right-wing Colombian Presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was shot in the head during an event in Bogota, according to Colombian media. Uribe, 39, was rushed to a hospital after being shot in the head. According to Colombian media, Miguel Uribe is in serious condition.
Los Angeles is bracing for yet another day of what appears to be coordinated rioting sparked by mass arrests of illegals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unrest has involved organized elements affiliated with far-left activist cells, including Marxist-aligned nonprofits. The situation over the last two days has quickly deteriorated into looting, arson—including…
In the climate change arena, the Rockefellers call the shots. The whole thing was their idea, they took a silly but interesting theory and amped it up with hundreds and hundreds of million of dollars. They founded institutions and linked the survival of those institutions to promoting climate change…
I have stood in the late autumn chill of Niigata Prefecture, pondering the overgrown ruins of the rural house my wife’s grandmother inhabited as a child, before she immigrated to Hawaii as a teenage picture-bride.I studied the language, literature, geography and culture of Japan academically, have Japanese friends, and have…
Generally speaking, I avoid reacting to events as they occur. After all, the “value added” of this blog is not about the tumult on the surface, but deep currents beneath. The case in point is the spat between Musk and Trump, which developed literally in the last two days.
The UK has a severe structural crisis in leadership: each of the two main parties have defects that do not usually occur in tandem, but, when combined, are highly destructive. Each is oligarchic, not democratic. But, in contrast to most oligarchic regimes, each lacks the benefit of stability usually…
This is why we don’t. And how to get there. (Without the slaves.) (Or Handmaid’s Tale. Or Anti-Semitism) Whenever I need to sort out part of my house I catch up with the Global Warming ‘file’, as they called stories at Time. Why? Because inevitably I become so exercised, so…
