Like most of what the government tries to do, the goal is never what you see on the surface. The patina is meant to suggest compassion, but at the end of the day, the government’s role has become a question of how it survives on a dwindling resource (you or your labor). It robs you … Read more
First, and more importantly, no one was injured after a fire in a fire station destroyed over 20 million Euros worth of equipment, including a dozen vehicles. The cause is known—lithium batteries connected to a charger. AN EV emergency vehicle on charge achieved thermal runaway and took out an entire fire station. Did I mention … Read more
For the past eight years, the two major political parties have been gripped by a messy and ongoing realignment. It began with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, which was a major repudiation of the neoconservative-establishment coalition that had dominated the Republican Party since the presidency of George W. Bush. Trump’s condemnation of the … Read more
Will Rogers famously said: “The problem in America isn’t so much what people don’t know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain’t so,” Reminds me of what wannabe dictators and bureaucrats think about how blind the American people have become and, perhaps, how easy it will be to steal the rest … Read more
Kirk is adrift, Leslie is lost, and Invest 97L is a hair west of Cape Verde and likely to follow them around the central Atlantic. Milton burned out fast after a CAT 3 landing (Sorry, climateers – no Cat 6 superstorm), making a mess, but that’s what hurricanes do, and a lot less often than … Read more
The socialists in the UK National Health Service keep lots of data. They do research. That doesn’t make up for the long wait times that may exceed the window for required care or the outcomes; they do collect the data. The UK has been a gold mine, especially since the COVID era to which we … Read more
Nothing warms the heart on a chilly Autumn morning than some October surprise scuttlebutt. Today’s tidbit comes from longtime White House stenographer Mike McCormick. He wrote The Case to Impeach Joe Biden before the blob realized bumblin’ Joe couldn’t get them across another finish line. Mike served at least three presidents, so he knows things … Read more
Over the weekend, the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel to “coordinate” with the Israeli military and plan a military strike against Iran. Think about that for a moment: one of the highest-ranking officers in the US military is planning a war in a foreign country against another … Read more
On Thursday, I wrote about the testimony of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at a Tuesday meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Assange’s testimony provided an informative overview of his persecution for helping expose disturbing government secrets. In his testimony, Assange stepped back at … Read more
While that line is from John Wick Chapter 2 (which is one of the very few movie series that I’ll sit and watch over and over again – I generally don’t “do” movies EVER), I think that is the longer version of the Jewish rally cry of “Never again!” The Jewish nation will never accede … Read more
The world was a dangerous place on September 11, 2001, and is now even more so. Freedom is shaken by terrorism, and terrorism neither fears nor respects complacent joy. Eleanor Hodgman Porter was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1868. She wrote several novels with little notice, but at the start of World War One, … Read more
We’ve no shortage of debunking on these pages when it comes to the hyperbolic prognostications of climate cultists. These are people whose gambling advice you’d best not take unless you know your bet is backstopped by endless federal grants to friends and family, who then fund their re-election campaigns to keep the cycle of fiscal … Read more
Of the innumerable Satanic evils the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has perpetrated on humanity, the murder of members of Falon Gong (and I suspect Christians) for purposes of organ transplantation to prolong the life of the CCP ruling elite is horrific. Apparently, the CCP has struck a Faustian deal with Mephistopheles: “All the organs you … Read more
For those old enough to remember, one of the early “climate” fearmongering campaigns was the hole in the ozone. Long story short, if “we” didn’t do something, we would all fry. The problem wasn’t so much ozone as technology. Science has discovered a way to see ozone concentration, typically less dense at the poles. The … Read more
Yeah. So. Newsflash. The response to COVID may have been a bit over the top. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England told the Covid Inquiry that the Government potentially “overdid” the warnings at the start of the pandemic as lockdowns were introduced and the vulnerable told to “shield”. He said that the balance in communicating the … Read more
The Pink Peach Tree was painted in 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh. One of the first books I purchased in my teens was a large, leather-bound coffee table book featuring works of art by Van Gogh. I came across this book in a basement bookshop on Canal Street in New York City. This was the same … Read more
Some people claiming to be scientists unexpectedly discovered that the temperature history of planet Earth is like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. It is all over the place and mostly hotter than today. This is not a discovery. Eighth graders used to know this until recently (not sure there is time for it with all the … Read more
One of the earliest memorable advertising campaigns for robbing you blind to “fix” the climate depicted a polar bear perched on a sliver of sea ice. The tiny island getaway was getting away from where we were told it belonged and taking the polar bears with it. The bears have outlasted that narrative, as they … Read more
Joe Biden gave his last address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, and his legacy would have been better served if he passed on the invitation. The speech was long, disjointed, and a shot at Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East. Joe also tried to reinvent the botched Afghanistan withdrawal and … Read more
A centrally controlled digital currency is a red flag to anyone devoted to privacy and individual liberty. ‘Grok friend Aaron Day ran for president as a platform to warn people about CBDC and the threat it represents to liberty. Once your money can be monitored, controlled, and censored by the government, that ties into social … Read more