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Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
2/5/2025 Rant of the Day (A Reprise): We can put a man on the moon; we can build cars that drive themselves; we can put artificial intelligence in computers; so…
1/30/2025 There is a sort of life-cycle factor at play. Ukraine started the war with a smaller army that was better trained and much more motivated, the Russians started with…
1/30/2025 Joe Biden has faced much criticism for the preemptive pardons he issued in his final days in office to family and other people threatened by Donald Trump. The first…
1/29/2025 There is an argument made that it was the temperance movement, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition), that ended the Progressive Movement, the wave of reform that…
1/28/2025 Does what is happening in Washington, DC at the moment more closely resemble: a) A new administration settling into office and attempting to implement its agenda? b) The leaders…
4/6/2024 Political Science Thought for the Day: I have been reading (in John Dickerson’s _The Hardest Job in the World_ most recently, and in many other places over the years)…
2/35/2025 Some people are excited that long-serving former Republican Majority and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and so seemed to show some…
1/23/2025 There seems to be a widespread belief that the courts will stop Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. No matter what the lower…
12/14/2012 After Sandy Hook What is worse, if anything could possibly be worse than the shootings, is that we already know so much of the story. The shooter is almost…
11/26/2023 Poll of the Week, What Group of Nuts has Done the Most Damage to the United States: a) Free Market Nuts, who believe that capitalism is the answer…
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