MYTHOLOGICAL AMERICAN COWBOY IMAGE
These days, reality is slowly undermining the political power of the mythological American Cowboy image. In the years after World War II, that image helped …
FEEDING FRENZY
The feeding frenzy of the media in the short time since Joe Biden’s debacle in the first presidential debate, only reinforces the point I have …
DONALD TRUMP’S SANITY
This piece, written by Geoffrey Goldberg, the Editor of the Atlantic magazine, focuses on Donald Trump’s sanity and his deteriorating ability to make sense, avoid …
RELIGION AND THE UNITED STATES
Religion and the United States is a topic I have written about several times in past blogs. In particular, I have discussed the fact that …
RE-EVALUATING ROAD COLLISIONS
Re-evaluating Road collisions: Almost 30 years ago, a revolutionary idea changed the way Europe regarded road collisions. It has probably saved countless lives, but it’s …
CONGRESSIONAL MORONIC SOCIETY
The Congressional Moronic Society spectacle last week of showing up outside the courthouse in Manhattan where Donald Trump was on trial, has to go down …
ALAN LICHTMAN
Alan Lichtman has been called the Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections. He has correctly predicted the result of nine of the past 10, and even …
PYONGYANG
Pyongyang: A major missile supplier? In January 2024, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Krystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into …
TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE
I don’t often publish, verbatim, an article from somewhere else, but a Time Magazine article this week is so poignant and direct that it needs …
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BLACKMAIL
Israeli Government blackmail sounds plausible under many scenarios, including the way that I mean it here. The Israeli government has, for many years, successfully played …