More so than perhaps any story in my adult lifetime, there is now an astonishing amount of disinformation pertaining to Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine. Russian disinformation and Russian propaganda, by now infamous for any American with even…
Two antiquarian books lie before me. The first is a copy of George Wharton Edwards’ Vanished Halls & Cathedrals of France, published in 1917 after the author, an American impressionist painter, traveled through the battle-scarred cities and villages along the…
Many observers are questioning the mental health of Vladimir Putin, including here at this publication, and for very good reason. After all, what kind of leader engages in such brute activity toward the people of a neighboring country who have…
Monday — Hey! What the hell happened? Life was going along peacefully aside from some race riots and the collapse of education and culture as the country got crushed under the iron heel of “diversity” and then, “Boom,” Comrade Putin pushed…
The Biden White House, facing withering scrutiny over its Ukraine failures, now is characterizing Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as “mentally imbalanced.” We remember this Democrat playbook in the way they portrayed President Trump. Just throw mud at others and see…
My paternal grandfather was a glassblower who, in the years before World War I, left his hometown of Brody forever. Brody was in Galicia, the northernmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Populated mostly by ethnic Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, it also…
The lasting symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began last Thursday should be the tank flying a big red hammer and sickle flag of the Soviet Union as it crossed the Russian border into Ukraine. It was no…
President Joe Biden has continuously stated that “climate change” is the highest priority of his administration, fueled by Build Back Better spending. We are witnessing the disastrous impacts that establishing the wrong priorities can have. On the day Biden became…
In February 2014, Russian kingpin Vladimir Putin invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula, which had been under Ukrainian jurisdiction. The timing was no accident, coming as it did only a handful of months after then-President Barack Obama reneged upon…
