I taught mathematics at the Universidad Simon Bolivar (USB) near Caracas from 1973 to 1975 and returned to teach summer classes in 2005 and again in 2008. My wife and I honeymooned in Venezuela in 1977. That doesn’t make me…
Crucial elections in Venezuela this Sunday are being conducted against a backdrop of increased Russian military activity in the Caribbean as another naval task force sails into Cuba, and Moscow ally, President Nicolás Maduro threatens to submerge the region in…
It’s no secret that Iran has been steering Hezbollah’s operations in Southern Lebanon, overseeing Hamas’s (now dwindling) presence in Gaza, and funneling arms and aid to a slew of terrorist agents across the Middle East. Through such covert maneuvers, Tehran…
When the Washington Times were considering an investigative piece I wrote from Venezuela in 2002 on the leftist power grab by president Hugo Chavez they were hesitant at first. There was going to be a coup and Chavez would soon…
Sacramento If the June 7 top-two primary results are any indication, California continues along its merry path of electing and reelecting progressive Democrats to every statewide office no matter what political crises swirl around the state. All the usual suspects…
On her Fox show Sunday Morning Futures, Fox host Maria Bartiromo featured what she termed “explosive” news from her guests, Trump legal team leaders Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, the latter also the lawyer for Gen. Michael Flynn. You can…
The World Economic Forum is a bunch of guys who travel in private jet planes all the way to Switzerland to tell people that they should ride their bikes to work. I’ve already bought one. I carry it in the…
In the politics of envy that permeated the Senate Judiciary hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s lament that “I might have thought someday I’d be sitting in that chair” was the most revealing of all. Spoken half…
I find the possible death of Kim Jong-un intriguing, but I’m more concerned about confirming the death of his hairdresser. That guy could still be out there leaving people’s hair like parallelopipedons. Trump needs to stop spying on North Korea’s…
