Category Archive: POLITICS
Charlie Kirk
14 October, 1993 – 10 September, 2025 Charlie Kirk was called a lot of nasty names during his life as a political activist, and that continued after he was shot and killed at an outdoor event on the campus of Utah Valley University on 10/9/2025. The New York Times reported that “it was easy to find left-wing posters reveling in Mr. Kirk’s death and suggesting he got what he deserved.” He was a Christian conservative, a supporter of Donald Trump’s re-election, and argued against abortion, overreaching gun-controls, open borders and trans-gender irrationality. He did not cancel or mock those with…
Continue Reading →Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
(By Henry A. Kissinger, 1957) Kissinger spent most of his adult life dealing with a revelation and a revolution; the discovery of nuclear fission. He recognised that nuclear weapons changed how nations would conduct foreign policy. Ever the realist, Kissinger knew that nuclear weapons would slow but not stop war, and he grappled with the two-sides of the coin thereby tossed: that possession of nuclear weapons, no longer held in monopoly, would either prevent all war, or lead to global catastrophe. He also thought, presciently, that neither arms limitations agreements, exchanges of information such as sharing of flight plans or…
Continue Reading →Prizes All Around
Good friends sent this news clipping from Norway recently (see main image). We can’t read Norwegian, but think we get the message… We infer the obvious reference to Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu writing to the Nobel Peace Committee, nominating Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Our friends regard that as risible. So do we, perhaps for different reasons. What we don’t get is that the Norwegians fear the Nobel Peace Prize might be trashed. Surely, it’s been a joke for ages. It wasn’t always that way: evidenced by the awards to Nelson Mandela and Elie Wiesel, for example. But…
Continue Reading →The Windmills of His Mind
In the northern Summer of 2025, we learned that former President Joe Biden is writing a memoir of his Presidency. He also mentioned that a number of European leaders have kept in contact with him, seeking his advice and continuing participation in affairs of the World. We have commented (almost) enough on the Biden Imbroglio, and don’t want (too much) to kick a man when he’s on the ground, so instead let’s hum a little tune, with apologies to Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and Noel Harrison: “Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a…
Continue Reading →Bidengate
“The cover-up is usually worse than the crime.” Richard Nixon was neither involved nor apprised-of the break-in at the Watergate, but in participating in the cover-up, he strayed over the political line into an area of illegality, leading to a threat of impeachment and his resignation. If he had shopped his staff at, for example, the tense and heated press conference on the evening of 26 October 1973 (see main image), he probably would have survived. Now let us consider what may rival the Watergate scandal: what looks more and more like a massive gaslighting operation to convince America, and…
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