Eccentric and Idiosyncratic Commentary on Current and Military Affairs
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…
11/20/2024 Liberals and Democrats are trapped in the world of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Trump and Republicans are running wild in the world of Thomas Hobbes and Friedrich Nietzsche.
11/18/2024 (I sent this into the _New York Times_, of course they didn’t print it — too bitter. I believe what I said, however.) As we come up on two…
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