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Irony of ironies, all is irony was theme and motto of the peace THING held in Islamabad Pakistan last weekend.  The THING (given its brevity and other attributes discussed below we decline to call it a conference) came about after Trump cut and ran over the price of...

As a boomer whose early years were filled with WWII imagery and consequences, including tearful send offs of older cousins from Fort Dix to Korea and whose first ballot was cast at the peak of the colliding anti(Vietnam)war/civil rights/sexual revolution movements -...

Last week the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee sent Trump’s nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become Secretary of Homeland Security to the full Senate, replacing Kristi Noem (the heroine of HL 203 “Kristi Noem Won’t Save the Poor Little Girls, Trump Might...

During his March 6, 2026 news avail NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that his wife Rama Duwaji “is the love of my life and she’s also a private person. . . and I believe that it’s my responsibility. . . to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my...

Imminent: As per Oxford “about to happen – they were in imminent danger of being swept away.” Regretfully, these days all opinions about our war with Iran must be prefaced with an against the grain declaration that usually is “I am shedding no tears for the Ayatollah,...

As 2025 closes I am watching Ken Burns’, Sarah Botstein’s, David Schmidt’s, Geoffrey Ward’s, Buddy Squire’s and George Washington’s “The American Revolution” which frames and intensifies my belief that this year was the worst in the 250 since America broke free from...