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April 2, 2025
The gift that keeps on givingThe joy that the new Trump administration has given to me has not yet abated. Last week, Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in which a slack-jawed, dumb-founded Sen. Angus King of Maine noted that the 2025 annual threat ...
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March 21, 2025
NATO and the German straitjacketLord Ismay, the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reportedly observed that the purpose of the Alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Russians out, and the Germans down. A majority unde...
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March 20, 2025
Greenpeace takes a hitFor over fifty years, environmental groups, like Greenpeace, have hounded companies that they wished to demonize. They would try to make it costly for companies to continue practices that they deemed were environmentally unsound. They had no problem ...
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March 10, 2025
Crisis fatigue catches up with the DemocratsOne of the main reasons that Democrats have been recently sidelined is that the electorate is experiencing crisis fatigue. The fearmongering from Democrats on COVID, Climate, and Russia has finally exhausted the voting public. The Democrats are findi...
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March 4, 2025
NOAA meet DOGEIt has always been my contention that many government agencies, like universities, are hotbeds of political activism. This has been quite apparent for years within the corridors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Many scientists at ...
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March 3, 2025
Another lesson in Great Power PoliticsAfter the recent Oval Office flare up, it is obvious that Zelensky still believes that his allies in entertainment/media, the Democrat party, and the EU will come to his rescue and derail the Trump train. Maybe it was all those fawning celebrities ma...
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February 25, 2025
A lesson in great power politicsI want to transport the reader back to a different place and time. It’s the early 1960s and the darling of Western intelligentsia, Fidel Castro, has recently taken power in a Marxist revolution in Cuba. Many see him as just another garden varie...
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February 13, 2025
All you need to know about atmospheric physicsI feel a little uneasy about the title of this essay. Atmospheric physics is a subject that I have learned to appreciate later in life. I would have probably not spent much time studying it were it not for the need to construct a framework to grapple...
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February 12, 2025
Our Conservative Climate CaucusThe Conservative Climate Caucus provides proof that bad ideas can flourish on both sides of the political divide. Senator John Curtis (R-Utah), who was its originator and first chairman, professes free market tenets, but has a strange interpretation ...
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February 3, 2025
How they stopped worrying and learned to ignore the bombSince at least the 1960s, environmentalists have manufactured scary stories about the planet being in peril. However, for me their narratives don’t seem very frightening, especially their latest version of climate catastrophism. If you are a re...
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January 24, 2025
Imaginary birthrightOn Tuesday, California AG, Rob Bonta, along with 18 other state attorneys general challenged in court an executive order signed by President Trump ending birthright citizenship. Bonta asserted that birthright citizenship, a situation in which a child...
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January 23, 2025
As Los Angeles (still) burnsI think most observers of the Los Angeles fires are being too polite in not pointing out that the residents in the upscale neighborhoods devastated by the fires are reaping what they have sown. Like most affluent white elites in LA, they possess a se...
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January 23, 2025
How extreme weather came to rule the climate change roostIn the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires and North Carolina floods, the phrase “extreme weather” has been brandished widely by the Left and their allies in mainstream media as an explanation for the severity of these catastrophes. It has...
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January 13, 2025
Systemic risk in the modern eraIn the wake of an event like the California wildfires, insurance companies are often demonized. They get portrayed as insensitive or even evil, while in reality they are no more cold-hearted than Las Vegas casinos. If they are successful at their ...
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January 9, 2025
As Los Angeles burnsDiffering opinions on the fires raging in Los Angeles point to a great political and philosophical divide in our society. Essentially, it is a division over how one views man’s relationship with nature. One side holds the traditional masculi...
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January 7, 2025
‘Hands off our Democracy’ say the German elitists to the people“Hands off our Democracy” has now become the rallying cry of the German ruling establishment and press. In a recent interview with the German magazine, Spiegel, Green chancellor candidate Robert Habeck was asked if he believed Musk to be ...
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January 3, 2025
Musk, battery salesman or American hero?It is difficult to pigeonhole Elon Musk. He has surprised me in the last several years. First, by purchasing and liberating Twitter, and later by offering Trump his whole-hearted support. My impression of him has favorably changed over time, much as ...
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December 23, 2024
Musk backs the AfDIn a prior article, “Whining Euro-weenies on full display”, I suggested that after Elon and Vivek are done transforming the federal government, they can tackle the liberation of Europe—Elon may be undertaking that process earlier th...
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December 16, 2024
Reaping the harvest of seeds sownRecently, some of the pervasive net zero happy talk in the media has been replaced with sober voices raising alarm that public utilities may not be able to deliver the electricity to meet demand over the next decade. They often cite unanticipated ene...
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December 6, 2024
Nuns and climate catastrophismLooking back at my days in Catholic grade school, I can only imagine that the nuns must have thought of me as a precocious child. Unlike most of my peers who were bored in religion class, I took an interest. However, the nuns did not appreciate it. T...
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November 26, 2024
The Wisdom of NATO entry for Poland and UkraineImage: Public domain. In May ’23, the Polish parliament’s upper house — the Senate — unanimously adopted a resolution on Ukraine’s membership in NATO as a key link in Europe’s defense. The resolution reads, ...
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November 21, 2024
Standoff in UkraineDetractors of Putin have described him as someone holding Ukraine and Russia hostage. For the sake of argument, let’s say that is the case. Then what is the best course of action for the West? To answer that question, let’s an...
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November 20, 2024
Whining Euro-weenies on full displayWatching the meltdowns on social media after Trump’s election was mildly amusing until I got to the fourth clip of some hysterical woman cursing at her phone, and then it just reminded me of my ex-wife. However, the recent wave of Euro-weenie w...
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November 14, 2024
The ebb of the Church Lady’s influenceIf anyone comes close to being a contemporary version of Dana Carvey’s Church Lady, it is leftist journalist, Anne Applebaum. The spectacle of Trump’s campaign rally in Madison Square Garden had her clutching her pearls, aghast at the display. People...
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November 12, 2024
Europe wants to take the reinsLike clockwork, The Atlantic magazine rolled out an article by Phillips Payson O’Brien, adding to the chorus of voices in Europe saying that if President Trump does not want to pursue the war in Ukraine, then Europe ought to take up the sl...
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November 9, 2024
In the wake of Trump’s return, the EU refuses to compromise on Ukrainian war aimsIn the wake of the U.S. presidential election, which saw a return to power of Donald Trump, European leaders at the Political Community summit in Budapest this week reiterated their stance that the EU must stand with Ukraine for as long as it t...
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October 21, 2024
The Harris campaign word-salad generatorIf you’ve ever wondered how those delightful word salads emerge from the lips of Kamala Harris, wonder no more. After running an experiment with artificial intelligence (AI), I’ve surmised that the Harris campaign might be employing the l...
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October 3, 2024
Was Am I Racist? a one-off?With his new movie Am I Racist?, Matt Walsh has pulled off an impressive coup in getting several prominent DEI thought leaders to consent to interviews. Going into the exchange, they were under the impression that Matt was a DEI ally who was creating...