[Amman, 7/14/25] Like I said, much of Amman outside Al Balad is deadening, but today, I forced myself to leave it. Getting into a yellow taxi, I said, “US Embassy,” but the Jordanian driver didn’t understand, so I tried, “American Embassy.” Wouldn’t I rather go to…
The idea of Elon Musk creating a new party called the “America Party” is by no means doomed to failure. Everything Musk sets his mind to, he achieves. In many ways, it was he who helped bring Trump to power under slogans radically opposed to the establishment. Musk…
The “major statement” on Russia that Trump earlier hyped up turned out to be a clumsy attempt to thread the needle between radically escalating US involvement in the Ukrainian Conflict and walking away from it. His new three-pronged approach includes: 1) the rapid dispatch of up to 17 Patriot missile…
From the moment cinema was born, humanity slowly shifted—from imaginative readers who shaped the world with their minds, to passive watchers mesmerized by giant screens. Heroes once born of paper and thought became three-dimensional spectacles: hyper-masculine men, impossibly beautiful women, shaping the modern psyche with illusion and desire.
John was a shrew. He knew that ten years ago, when the Covid insanity started and everyone wanted him to get jabbed. But he just felt odd about it. It just didn’t seem right. So, he didn’t do it, and wow, did he get hell for that.
In 1883, when the Pendleton Act was passed, creating the US civil service, it must have seemed like no big deal. The forgotten Chester A. Arthur was the president. The fear of being assassinated like his predecessor James Garfield convinced him to back the legislation. The case for passage:…
In June “Texas Patriot,” a prominent anonymous account supportive of President Trump, announced during the height of tensions with Iran, “F*ck it. If Trump takes us to war, I’m done with him and his administration. I voted for: NO WARS No taxes Cheap gas…
In times of trouble, everyone needs a little toxic masculinity. In the wake of the devastating floods in Texas over the July 4 weekend, a Coast Guard member named Scott Ruskan and his heroic aircrew are responsible for saving 165 lives. Ruskan himself physically carried…
As Peter Schweizer noted in a short report for the Hoover Institution on Christmas Day 2000, twenty-five years ago the United States was “spending less on defense as a percentage of GNP than anytime since the Great Depression.” That all changed nine months later when the so-called…
Major plot twist just unfolded in the long-running “Is Brigitte Macron actually a man?” saga. It’s a doozy, and something not a lot of people saw coming. As you likely know, for years now, rumors have swirled that France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron, was actually born male,…
