Sep 3, 2025 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Trump is considering declaring a national housing emergency to address the growing affordability crisis that is keeping home ownership out of reach for millions of Americans.Bessent told the Washington Examiner that the announcement could come as early as this fall in an “all...

Sep 3, 2025 – River crossings during the American Revolution were common events. Historians, patriotic organizations and living history enthusiasts focus on several of these crossings with commemorations and reenactments. The most celebrated of all crossings is Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware on December 25, 1776. State parks, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, recognize...

Sep 3, 2025 – On July 14th, President Donald Trump set a deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine – 50 days. The war’s death toll and the Russian leader’s bad faith negotiating tactics had exceeded the president’s patience threshold and it was time for the Trump Administration to weigh...

Aug 28, 2025 – Dirty hydraulic fluid and freezing weather led to the loss of an F-35 stealth fighter in Alaska this winter when its landing gear froze and convinced the aircraft’s computer that it was on the ground rather than in-flight.The pilot lost control of the aircraft, ejected, and walked to an ambulance...

Aug 27, 2025 – If there's one thing you can say about Democrats lately, it is that they are consistent in their dogged adherence to their peculiar madness.I'm truly baffled why this is so, but damned if they don't have an opening to scoot safely through as big as a train tunnel to mitigate...

Aug 27, 2025 – Oh, there is some great skullduggery afoot here, and not at all what I was going to write about initially, but all very much connected.A plot! A plot has supposedly been uncovered and is being feverishly dissected and digested in the press at the moment.WAS TRUMP PLANNING A MILITARY INVASION...

Aug 28, 2025 – Or at least ruminations on some potential futures, and the dangers and opportunities that await within them. In many respects, I am more optimistic about our future in this country than I have been in many decades. That said, things can go south in a heartbeat, and not necessarily because...

Aug 27, 2025 – Wow.I can't even with this pinhead.A reporter asked Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago's own Bear of Little Brains, if he wasn't the teensiest bit worried that all the mouth pushback would goad President Trump into sending federal troops to Chicago.And instead of being a good bear, taking a deep breath and...

Aug 27, 2025 – The Grok headline summary of all the news on this particular story used the word 'siezed.' Pretty aggressive, I thought, but then Grok tends to be a bit left-leaning as it aggregates all the available information for its little AI info-paragraphs.JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump seizes control of Washington's Union...

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Sep 2, 2025 – Ah, 'fweedom,' as a once-upon-a-time future Vice-President supposedly breathed to her mother from her baby stroller.It's a fuzzy concept to many in the world from birth, having never known what it is.But to those steeped in its mythos, aware of freedom's power and the natural rights of man accorded with...

Sep 2, 2025 – OMG DIS GUYNow I will concede that while whatever problems Brandon Johnson has are entirely the result of his own making, there is no gainsaying that he had an absolutely miserable week last week.From getting upstaged by the porcine potentate with presidential pretensions who is running the state, spinning lunatic conspiracies...

Sep 3, 2025 – It has been a while since I did a monkeypox update, so I thought it was time to review what’s new with this virus.However, the biggest news doesn’t involve the pathogen, but rather one of Biden’s former monkeypox czars appointed during the global outbreak of 2022. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis had...

Aug 29, 2025 – A little over a week ago, after tens of thousands of ladies in pink and hordes of grandparents carrying flags had descended upon the sidewalks and curbs of the streets outside of the so-called 'migrant hotels' in their communities into which Keir Starmer had dropped his ever increasingly boatloads of...

Aug 30, 2025 – You have probably seen that last week an appellate court in New York (Appellate Division, First Department) reversed the civil judgment against President Trump where he had been ordered to pay a fine in excess of $450 million to the state of New York.  This case originated during Trump’s first...

Aug 30, 2025 – Well, I’m old now. There are some polls showing that people think middle age continues through age 65 or even beyond, but who are they kidding? First, nobody lives to 130. Second, can you be both middle-aged and also Medicare-eligible? Seems like a stretch.Of course, people may feel that way because...

Aug 29, 2025 – It's the Friday before a holiday weekend.I mean, Ed hasn't said anything yet to us here at the saltmines, but we're thinking we're not playin' Monday, so it'll be a peasant revolt in effect.(And then he'll whip out his Mel Brooks Louis XIV skeet shooting gif like the tough guy...

Aug 31, 2025 – A group of researchers is stunned to find a 20-year slowdown in the melting of Arctic sea ice.However, as the scientists used computer modelling and are inclined to support the pseudoscience of man-caused climate change, they also assert that the melting will speed up once “natural climate variations” end.Scientists say this...

Aug 31, 2025 – A longtime Democratic donor publicly displayed his support for Republican Virginia gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign following a racist attack on the black GOP candidate during a protest outside a school board meeting on Aug. 21.Robert Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and chairman of asset manager RLJ Companies,...

Aug 31, 2025 – In a bold push to overhaul the U.S. public health system, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has initiated sweeping reforms at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including firing top officials, pledging the first comprehensive scientific review of the childhood vaccine schedule, and launching investigations...

Aug 31, 2025 – I recently returned from holiday. The segue from hot dry days oiled with rosé and factor 30 to a best-of-British grey rainy day was harsh. But as I took myself out for provisions, slapping my sandals through puddles under a leaden sky, my mood lifted. The high street was lined...

Aug 31, 2025 – In the glorious, lefty-infuriating weeks since President Trump signed into law the Big, Beautiful Bill, all we’ve heard from Democrats and the media (OK, same thing) is how Evil Trump and all us Bible-thumping troglodytes with the audacity to pray about things are going to kill millions in rural America...

Aug 31, 2025 – Barack Obama didn’t like Hillary Clinton.  Barack Obama didn’t even care about Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign.  Barack Obama would have liked nothing more than to watch Hillary Clinton go down in a ball of flames, until something happened in 2016 that changed the dynamic.Suddenly, Barack Obama needed Hillary...

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Sep 1, 2025 – My big brother Paul died last August, just shy of his 89th birthday. He was the oldest of my five brothers, all of them now dead. It’s just me and my sister Mary now, and God love her, it just ain’t the same.No more brothers in my life. I am...