It appears that the Democrat Party is only interested in power and chaos. Today’s Democrat leadership is controlled by Leftist factions angrily pushing issues that lack support from a majority of Americans: open borders, COVID lockdowns, defunding the police, refusing
Category: Politics
Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline?
The continuing saga of economic decline in western democracies… Is Greece the “Canary in the Coal Mine” for how these events unfold? This is a cumulative posting that began in 2012. Update I haven’t updated progress on the economy in
Do US Tech Companies Have Too Much Influence?
This cumulative posting started in February 2018, and I will continue posting articles below on this topic for the foreseeable future…. If you want to review business and political fireworks that will become front-page news, then take a look at
The Age of the Endarkenment
Update Simple commentary from James Kunstler about the wacky age in which we are living and the likelihood that the craziness must stop: And the answer is the things Western Civ is doing in its attempted suicide: inciting war, recklessly
Is Ohio State an Embarrassment?
No, I’m not talking about their team sports. I’m talking about their educational departments (If the Universities didn’t have teams in football and basketball, there would be less than half the interest in these “educational” institutions). Ohio State is recruiting
Journalists Suggest Abandoning Objectivity
According to a journalism professor at Arizona State University, the media is too neutral and values “objectivity” too highly (really!?): Professor Leonard Downie, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, recently wrote that “newsrooms are debating whether traditional objectivity should
Harvard, Affirmative Action, & Wokeness
Update I discovered a commentary today from a Harvard alum, which contains much more information about the incoming president of the university: “The new president is Claudine Gay, currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences… we should take
What is Chanukah?
Update It’s time to dust-off the old reliable article that I first wrote during my youth… December 25, 2019 Happy Chanukah! This is a year that the lunar calendar (the basis for the ancient Jewish method of tracking dates)
Defending Democracy?
Am I the only one hearing this Democrat pitch line and cringing incredulously? Doesn’t anyone find it ironic that the political party that openly embraces the virtues of Socialism is claiming that they are “defending democracy”? The same people that
Deceptive Democrat US Senate Candidate in Ohio
Update Here is the icing on the cake: An elected Democratic official in Ohio penned an op-ed Friday calling Democratic senatorial candidate Tim Ryan “a fraud.” The op-ed, published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, was written by Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes