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…
Natural gas prices are expected to spike to the highest levels seen in more than fifteen years this winter and prices at the pump are already making more than our tires squeal. Astonishingly, President Joe Biden and a cohort of…
The power has gone out in my building. I feel like St. Thomas Aquinas, writing in the light of a candle. The neighbor on the third floor, who spends her days reading moronic newspapers and watching even more moronic TV…
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…
Energy prices are up 18 percent. Is that high enough to be called “inflation”? Why do things like this happen? Why do such bad things happen to good people? It is not about theology or philosophy. Rather, idiots sometimes need…
As the UN’s climate conference approaches, one notable vacancy at the world leaders’ table will be President Vladimir Putin. The Russian statesman has declined to attend the summit, citing concerns over COVID. But it’s more likely that Putin doesn’t wish…
Washington — Remember the days when — pre-presidency! — Joe Biden used to be given to uttering gaffes? He would utter a lot of them. I remember him in debate with the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin. In fact, he made so…
Economists are predicting that Europe and Asia will face a cataclysmic energy crisis when winter weather collides with drastically higher energy prices and shortages of oil, natural gas, and coal. There are warnings about widespread blackouts in Europe, factory shutdowns…
Europe is careening towards a dire electricity crisis. In Spain, to cite one example, average wholesale power prices have tripled in six months to reach $204 per megawatt hour, according to Politico, and Spanish households are paying roughly 40 percent more…
