
Michael Fumento
How does he do it? Vladimir Putin, that is. With only the world’s 11th-biggest GDP, he has the third-most powerful military, on which he spent $67 billion in 2020. With which he bullies and invades neighbors and ties down NATO as a whole and…
I fell in love with Germany, or Bavaria anyway, in December 1989. The now-defunct German GQ magazine brought me from the states for an interview over my highly controversial AIDS writings. I stayed in a first-class Munich hotel and was wined…
The news about global warming, er, global climate change (GCC), continues to worsen. It’s now turning animals into shape-shifters as they adapt by changing the size of their ears, tails, beaks and other appendages, reports a team of scientists. Maybe nobody would…
You probably know or knew one. A veteran who served in a horrible place surrounded by death inflicted upon his buddies, that he inflicted upon the enemy, who maybe suffered permanent PTSD as well as physical wounds. And yet he…
For all the twists and turns of the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps none is stranger than so-called “Long Covid,” “Long Haul Covid,” or “Chronic Covid.” With almost countless and often bizarre symptoms from which some sufferers feel they will never recover…
Many aspects of the COVID pandemic have been politicized, not least among them vaccines and specifically the issue of coercion. I know. Where I live some major municipalities including mine are requiring vaccine cards for everything from gyms to grocery…
Since Vietnam, the U.S. cannot fight a war without a syndrome of mysterious illnesses popping up, for which veterans are then given “compensation” on the basis of “presumptive exposure.” The latest is garbage burning pits from anywhere in Southwest Asia,…
Bayer announced Thursday that it will replace all residential market products using the world’s most successful herbicide with ingredients yet to be named, but inferior. Why would it do such a thing? Oh, about 10.9 billion reasons and all of…
It’s proving to be one of the greatest scandals in the century-long history of the FDA — at a time when the agency needs all the credibility it can muster. When I first wrote in The American Spectator that the…
America’s military bases across the world number in the hundreds and are located on every continent. There are perhaps close to 800 in more than 70 countries and territories. But President Biden is ensuring that none will be in what’s…