To be sure there is an election coming up today in the United States and President Joe Biden has clearly taken the low road in the lead up to it by speaking before friendly audiences and repeating over and over the bromides that cause the brain to go numb. During the past week it was... Read More

My wife and I completed a cruise recently that started in Venice, visited islands and historic sites in the Eastern Mediterranean, and concluded in Rome after stops in Valletta, Palermo and Naples. There were inevitably good things and bad things in terms of how the shore excursions were programmed, more bad than good unfortunately, and... Read More

With another unelected Prime Minister continuing the Conservative Party's forty-year destruction of the British family---sans the rich---and hyperinflation looming above a long predicted economic depression, let us examine the day’s headline on the ascent of Liz Truss. “A Drawn Out Contest” was merely a tepid daily media championship interspersed by a brief commercial break for... Read More

I have to confess a certain liking for Russian President Vladimir Putin. No, it’s not over his actions in Ukraine, nor his authoritarian tendencies domestically. It is due to the fact that he sometimes articulates the hypocrisy of foreign countries and leaders in a pithy and take-no-prisoners fashion. He has lately been brave enough to... Read More