The conventional definition of The American Dream is anyone can achieve middle-class security if they work hard, work smart, persevere and are frugal / prudent / save and invest a healthy chunk of their earnings.I don’t consider it demeaning to call this ordinary success: the whole point of The American Dream is that…
Trump is literally taking control of U.S. foreign policy in the region and pushing back Israel’s attempts to bomb its way to peace. Was it Bill Clinton in the White House with Benjamin Netanyahu who, in a press conference, muttered those vulgar and certainly immortal words “who’s the f***…
In September 2023, the Australian government announced an independent Inquiry into the nation’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. From the outset, critics predicted a whitewash. The government had already walked back its promise to hold a Royal Commission. Instead, it settled for an ‘Inquiry’ that would lack broad powers to…
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. One might assume that, especially for those of us who hail from the United States, this would be an occasion for celebration and pride. The Second World War was the largest military conflagration in the…
Liberal democracy is supposed to be a process, not an outcome. George Soros champions an “Open Society” that moves closer to truth by dispensing with irrational, authoritarian, and closed systems of values. Instead, through open debate, tolerance for minorities and dissidents, civil rights, and cosmopolitanism, democracies can find the…
During my life, I’ve been involved with numerous marginalized groups opposed to something horrific being done by the establishment (including many that had nothing to do with medicine). Throughout that, I’ve seen those groups (many of which I deeply believed in) fragment and fracture again and again. As such,…
The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels. Of course, if there…
Here is Richard Stengel, a talking head “political analyst” at MSNBC and former blah-blah person in the Obama regime. Apparently, the Democrats are blocking white South Africans from refuge status in the United States. https://x.com/amuse/status/1922988576544858194 Stengel’s excuse, explained in the video, is that South Africa was once an apartheid…
The endgame is clear: the US losing the entire Eurasian land mass. Ukraine, under these immense geopolitical imperatives, is only a sovereign-deprived pawn in the (Great) Game. Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul –…
A major antitrust trial takes an “ancillary” detour to a chilling tour of online life. A month ago, on April 14th, one of the largest antitrust trials in recent memory commenced in the Washington, D.C. courtroom of District Chief Justice James Boasberg, now famous for finding the Trump administration…
