There is no reason that America should have any serious conflict with the new Russia. They have tolerated the many provocations that our government has thrown at them in hope of eventual understanding. But there are powerful people pushing hostility against Russia…
Today marks the twelfth day of hearings in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where a Hollywood film star – the “Bad” of my title – is suing News Group Newspapers, publishers of the lowbrow and bestselling Sun, for libel.
A Biden victory would mean our guns would be taken, leaving us to be devoured be the rioters and the terrorists.
Apparently there is a neurological disorder called prosopagnosia, also known as facial agnosia or “face blindness,” affecting to greater or lesser extent some two percent of the world’s population.
One of FDR’s many mercenary writers penned a line that is quoted often but perhaps not enough: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That’s obviously not true in any literal sense. As the tornado comes barreling down the street and is about to slam into my house and take us all to Oz,. fear is not the main problem, but in responding to the twin panics, ginned up by government and their media, fear is the greatest problem. A friend recently posted something someone wrote him, comparing our current problems with the Holocaust and used as...
The barbarians are near, we feel their corrosive breath on our necks, and unlike their predecessors these new ones cannot be absorbed…
I arrived back in Paris the day before lockdown in March of this year. I had cut short a business/ski trip in Bulgaria under advice from friends, though by Monday night, as I arrived back into Paris with all the shops in the airport already closed, it looked like wisdom.
I am not just angry. No, “angry” does not begin to describe my outrage. For 400 years, my people have been oppressed and living in fear. And this injustice has been virtually ignored while we continue to suffer torment and mistreatment.
It is curious that Theodore Roosevelt’s phrase about speaking softly and carrying a big stick is the progenitor of “big stick foreign policy,” though in fairness it should really have given us a totally opposite doctrine, “speak softly foreign policy.”
A friend wrote that he had been lent a sailboat and would be moored in Venice over the weekend, and would I want to dine in his company? With the insouciance born of longstanding habit I replied that I would with pleasure, if only he coughs up the money I need to get there
