Author Archives: Mike

Forty-five years ago, when I was an undergraduate, I read a book called Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers, by a fine historian named Adrienne Koch. The book was excellent, then and now, and there was one passage in Professor … Continue reading →

I have seen the first few episodes of a television drama series called “World on Fire”. Those episodes covered the second Great War’s first year and a bit more. It is a pretty interesting series, and surely worth seeing. One … Continue reading →

One of the major stories coming from the Chinese Virus drama is the dysfunction of American federalism. Woodrow Wilson’s administration began the process of accumulating power at the expense of state governments, and Franklin Roosevelt added to the theft by … Continue reading →

–Curtain Goes Up –-ACT I: Okay, many millions of Americans are unemployed. What do they need? They need jobs. Who are the biggest employers in the United States? Small businesses. Trump’s administration funded small businesses to the tune of $350 … Continue reading →

This piece is a rumination on hatred and its sources. Hatred, of course, is just one of a long list of human emotions, feelings, or thought processes that are hard-wired in all people and so are unable to be eradicated. … Continue reading →

During one of daily Chinese Virus briefing last week, a journalist working for the One American News Network (OANN), Ms. Chanel Rion, asked President Trump the following question: “2,405 Americans have died from coronavirus in the last 60 days. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

You got a lotta nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning You got a lotta nerve To say you got a helping hand to lend You just want to be on … Continue reading →

If Americans do not recognize the Democrats’ Nazi-like adoration of murdering innocents when it comes to abortion, infanticide, and pedophilia, their 22-23 March 2020 blocking of the Senate’s slate of relief measures for small businesses and American workers ought to … Continue reading →

As a retired, quickly aging intelligence officer, I am surprised that no one seems to have mentioned the indispensable contribution Mrs. Clinton and her unsecured e-mail server made to the fact that the Chinese Virus caught the U.S. government off-guard … Continue reading →

I was born in 1952, was raised by a World War II Marine, educated largely in Catholic schools and by Jesuits, before they became new-age fruit loops, and went to work at 14 washing dishes in an Italian restaurant in … Continue reading →