Nothing changed due to yesterday’s meetings. Ukraine offers $100bn weapons deal to Trump to win security guarantees (archived) – Financial Times, Aug 19 2025 Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe in a bid to obtain US guarantees for its security after a peace…
Knoxville’s IndiaFest last weekend thrilled Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett. He sent out not one, but two X posts declaring he had a great time at the event. The posts drew fierce criticism from the denizens of the Online Right. They couldn’t believe a conservative congressman would celebrate Indian migrants. But Burchett doubled-down…
When Kanye West, more popularly known as “Ye,” recently released a song titled “Heil Hitler,” it was not the first time a hip-hop artist’s rhetoric strained Black-Jewish relations. In 1989, Professor Griff of Public Enemy made antisemitic claims in an interview that set off a media firestorm and…
Marta gets up at 3:45 a.m. each morning to ride a combination of buses and metros to get to her job in the cafeteria in the building where I work. Breakfast begins at 6:45 and she’s always there, ready to ring up my coffee and oatmeal. She’s the face…
Some observers in the lead-up to last week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska hoped that a dialogue might be established where the broader issue of creating a new European security model that would reduce tensions and make it unlikely that a…
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool. Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and…
Federal officials, in public and in federal courtrooms, are lying about the existence of video footage from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue believes his brother was interrogated and tortured to death in August 1995 because federal authorities mistakenly thought he was “John Doe #2” in…
The Financial Times just reported that the nation’s tech titans are spending record sums on personal security. Zuckerberg shelled out $27 million last year to keep himself and his family safe. Elon Musk reportedly travels with 20 bodyguards like some Bond villain or on-stage hip hop performer. Even Nvidia’s Jensen…
Hello Sodom and Gomorrah. Christianity has always emphasized the severity of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Catholic Church defined them as pride, greed, envy, wrath, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Looking around at America 2.0, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Deadly Sinning comes as naturally to us as…
The fine art of flattering the Orange Caesar. Trump entered the hall like Caesar at the Capitol, his hair glowing with its own golden standard, the air charged as if Jupiter himself had descended in Manhattan attire. Before him, the vassals of the European Union shuffled and bowed, their…
