
Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the habits of successful crisis management by presidents. I studied four presidents who faced serious foreign policy crises and resolved them…
Scientists recently discovered what they believe to be the oldest common an ancestor of today’s octopus and other cephalopods. It lacked a backbone, was slimy, and is now a fossil. Without any apparent irony, they named it after Joe Biden….
I was taking my daily trot along Highway A1A in Florida the other day when I ran into a walking instance of the utter insanity that has overtaken pandemic-ridden America since the winter of 2020. I passed a guy with…
I do not think Russia will invade Ukraine. That does not mean that President Joe Biden’s lily-livered attempt at deterrence has succeeded; it is more a result of a cost-benefit analysis on the part of Russian President Vladimir Putin. I…
Whoopi Goldberg did not actually say that “all white people look alike to me,” but she implied it during her enlightening comments concerning the Holocaust on the ABC’s The View program recently. The tenor of her remarks was that the…
I had a junior high social studies teacher who was fond of saying that if it reached its logical conclusion, liberalism would eventually become fascism. He was long dead before Ilhan Omar hit the scene, but he would be gratified…
President Biden’s conduct of foreign policy reminds me of the 1960s television show Get Smart. Bumbling Secret Agent 86 — Maxwell Smart – stumbles through his battles with the evil crime syndicate KAOS. When cornered, he issues hollow threats that…
Joe Biden may find that Leon Trotsky’s observation that, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you” to be true regarding Afghanistan. Mr. Biden believed in August of last year that he had ended the…
“Jingle Bells” got canceled in the Brighton, New York School District’s curriculum of songs taught to students. The offensive tune was wiped from the curriculum of the Council Rock Elementary School when it was deemed by its principal, Matt Tappon,…
Our Creampuff-in-Chief has done it again. After the disgusting humiliation of Kabul in August, failing to gain concessions from the Iranians on their nuclear program, stirring the fires of inflation, and hopelessly mucking up the war on COVID, Joe Biden…