Author Archives: Mike

Nearly three years ago, the majority of the British electorate voted in a referendum to leave the EU. The British voters were sick of Brussels’ authoritarians strutting, preening, and acting as their masters; the EU-sanctioned flood of unwanted, diseased, unskilled, … Continue reading →

When I was a kid, our high-school classes spent several afternoons, over four years, watching films of events from the Nazis’ long list of atrocities, especially of the concentration camps as they were when liberated in the spring of 1945. … Continue reading →

In the senate career of Rand Paul, the first two months of 2019 have been revelatory. After running for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2016 – and appearing to have no reliably substantive and consistent stance on many … Continue reading →

There are so many significant events occurring that it is hard to determine which are the most important. Therefore, the following comments treat just three of the issues. –Venezuela: The ongoing U.S. intervention in Colombia is as pure a Neoconservative … Continue reading →

Decuple: A word from Middle French via Latin and meaning “an amount ten times as much or as many”. (1) A new national day of commemoration is in order, and a bill should be submitted to Congress to designate the … Continue reading →

Mr. President, why is it that we are seeing a growing squad of Neocons/Israel-Firsters in your administration? As the only thing most of us have to go on are the past performances of these men, it is hard to see … Continue reading →

In surveying a possible answers to the question “Why does Venezuela matter of the United States?”, it is difficult to come up with an answer that does not begin with the word “oil”. Because Maduro has mostly completed the ruination … Continue reading →

My preference was for President Trump to have declared a national emergency on 19 January 2019, and then ordered the U.S. military and the Corps of Engineers to immediately complete the construction of an effective wall along the entire length … Continue reading →

As if FOX’s Brian Kilmeade’s daily rant, and General Jack Keane’s periodic rants, in support of endless U.S. interventionist wars are not enough, yesterday FOX’s Dana Perino chimed in with an interview of a U.S. military veteran – I did … Continue reading →

The intense hatred of the bipartisan U.S. governing elite for the citizenry is overwhelming. It simply cannot be either overstated or over reacted to. Hatred of this sort cannot be tempered or renounced, it must be eradicated root and branch … Continue reading →