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Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
2/24/2025 Donald Trump has already quoted Napoleon, declaring that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Up next? Perhaps Louis XIV “L’etat c’est moi?”
2/21/2025 Purge among the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior military leadership. When do we stop talking about being on the verge of a constitutional crisis and admit we…
2/17/2025 I am awestruck: I thought it would take Trump a couple of years to destroy the United States, but Trump has already made an impressive start in his first…
2/13/2025 Apparently Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vladimir Putin, President of Russia are to meet and end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not invited. I would…
2/12/2025 There is an old story, well known and beloved by most in the military and by military historians, and almost certainly legendary, that goes like this: Supposedly, the old…
2//9/2025 Big Thought of the Moment: We are not, as Senator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, has suggest, “on the cusp of a Constitutional crisis.” It is rather that…
2/7/2025 There has been a lot of confusion over how to describe the role of Elon Musk in the Donald Trump presidency. Some, pointing up the power the Musk wields…
What the Fuck! Are you out of your mind? That’s batshit crazy! No! Not just no but hell no! What you are suggesting and doing is either illegal or a…
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…
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