At The American Conservative, Barbara Slavin, director and non-resident senior fellow of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, adroitly puts the Trump administration’s recent actions regarding Iran into perspective. Slavin writes (abridged): Pulling back from the brink of a military strike on Iran last week, President Donald Trump announced yet more sanctions on Monday […]
Archives for June 2019
The Dawn of a New Kind of War – Trump Orders a Cyber Attack
In retaliation to Iran attacking a U.S. drone last week, President Trump ordered a cyber attack that disabled Iran’s military weapons. No lives were lost, writes David Marcus in The Federalist. Many observers seem to think that President Trump backed down by not bombing a few military installations in Iran. But this cyber attack is […]
Tucker Explains: America Doesn’t Need Another War
It’s been widely reported that President Trump went beyond his inner circle of advisors to discuss the consequences of a conflict with Iran. One of those advisors was Tucker Carlson who explains here the last thing Mr. Trump needs on his hands is another war. And yet National Security Adviser John Bolton and the neocons […]
John Bolton the National Security Liar?
At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison points out the continued lies about Iran being told by National Security Adviser John Bolton. Larison writes (abridged): John Bolton is in Israel this weekend, and he continues to lie brazenly about Iran and its nuclear program: “Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, its threats to exceed the limits set in […]
Boston’s Seaport District: Expensive Drinks, Outrageously Loud Restaurants
I have been part of Boston for nearly sixty years. Debbie and I met on Beacon Hill. Today, however, we spend far more time in Paris than in Boston. And after a number of unpleasant experiences will not be returning to the Seaport District. The following explanation from Matthew Robare, a freelance journalist based in […]
RIP NOLA R&B Legend Dave Bartholomew
It’s hard to overstate the impact Dave Bartholomew had not only on the New Orleans R&B scene, but on rock and roll itself. The Times-Picayune obituary memorializes Bartholomew: Dave Bartholomew, a trumpeter, composer and bandleader whose uncanny ability to spot and nurture promising performers, most notably Fats Domino, helped stamp New Orleans’ imprint on the […]
Best June in 80 Years for the Dow?
President Trump has given American business owners and IRA participants the best economy they have seen in some time. Any of Trump’s progressive-socialist opponents in the Democrat primary would absolutely kill the jobs market, business environment and retirement savings structure, negatively affecting every single American. There would be no winners with the progressive socialists in […]
Dianne Feinstein Attacks AR-15 Owners
Grant Stinchfield of NRATV explains: “Dianne Feinstein, the anti-gun senator from California, took to Twitter to show just how clueless she really is on guns. She went down the road that every anti-gunner does and went after the always vilified AR-15.”
Leftist Western Women Push for Less Family Structure
Originally posted on May 23, 2019. Libby Emmons, writing in The Federalist, suggests that “everyone should acknowledge motherhood’s importance to society.” Women, explains Emmons, “should stop demanding liberation from motherhood,” only then will those feminists in Western countries, and the global underclass of women in domestic service overseas, be able to care for their own […]
Democrats’ Pie-in-the-Sky Proposals
Originally posted May 1, 2019. As Democrat presidential candidates vie for voters’ attention, they are suggesting a potpourri of giveaways, including Medicare-for-All and greater Social Security benefits. How to pay for these proposals? Finance new taxes. But, warns the WSJ, there are certain lessons not to be forgotten: The Medicare Hospital Trust Fund is expected […]
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