If you’re trying to digest the recent disasters, both natural and human, then you know it’s nearly impossible to live free without vulnerabilities. Instead of making this political (who doesn’t believe they have the answers?) what we have learned is that sometimes help isn’t coming. No doubt there is most likely a desire to help […]
Archives for October 2017
Shocking: America’s Five Worst Presidents
In a series I am doing on America’s worst presidents, which covers various government functions, this first in the series is easy. It is based directly on theamericanconservative.com post here, written by Akhilesh Pillalamarri . It best summarizes my own specific thinking on the worst five foreign policy presidents. In coming posts, I will expand on my […]
If Stephen Paddock Had Been Part of Al-Qaeda, He Would Have Been Stopped
Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins asks if wider use of technological surveillance, of the kind that is used against terrorists like al-Qaeda, might have done a better job in preventing the massacre allegedly perpetrated by Stephen Paddock. He writes: This column has always been partial to Dean Martin’s theory of gun control. The […]
What Happens After ISIS?
With Russia and the United States slowly dismantling the hold of ISIS over Syria and Iraq, the question can now be asked, what’s next? Once ISIS is expelled, the various forces on the ground, including the independence-seeking Kurds, Syrian rebel forces, and government forces in both Syria and Iraq will be fighting for the scraps. […]
Greetings from Paris
Is America’s Moment of Unity Fleeting?
Despite a brief moment of national unity following the terrible massacre in Las Vegas, Pat Buchanan questions whether or not the country can hold onto that for very long. Pat says that with a focus on identity issues like “race, religion, ethnicity, culture, history and politics,” America is being pulled apart. He writes: We Americans […]
“President Trump , Enough is Enough”
Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, says that enough is enough. Trump should eject the neocon generals from his White House and proceed with the America First policy he campaigned on. Scheuer writes: A necessary war — one in which America’s survival is at stake — requires the relentless annihilation of […]
Can Bannon’s Christian Coalition Fight Islamic Fascism?
Steve Bannon has called for binding together to contain the conflict with Islamic fascism. Here, The Atlantic’s Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Brittany Pheiffer Noble explain Bannon’s approach to thinking about the threat of Islamic fascism and what can be done by ‘Christendom’ about it. “If we do not bind together as partners with others in other […]
Let’s all Learn from Beatrice LaMonte
The Wall Street Journal’s Clare Ansberry talked to a number of people about what makes them feel old. The best answer came from a 101 year old reverend from Pennsylvania. Ansberry writes: Rev. Beatrice LaMonte, who turns 101 in October, continues to preach at the small church she founded in North Versailles, Pa. She traveled […]
Paris, The Palace Hotels: Part II
Recently I was on a boots on the ground research day as I checked out the current status of four Palace-designated hotels. Here are my initial thoughts on three of the group. My research of the Paris Palace hotels is an effort in its seventh year. Debbie and I travel to Paris twice each year, […]
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