Mar 11, 2025 – It's getting down to crunch time for the Continuing Resolution House Speaker Mike Johnson has managed to pull together despite some pretty formidable odds within their own party - a not unusual state of affairs for us - and in the face of truly whackjob opposition.As the GOP Conference Chairwoman...

Mar 11, 2025 – Things aren't going the Democrats' way at all when it comes to Trump actions, their reactions, and what the action is on the ground.Remember all that howling about Trump and the price of eggs?I do.It was the drone of the week a while back. It still pops up every now...

Mar 11, 2025 – The nascent Trump administration is fifty-some-odd days old, so their official war on wind has just begun.But wind advocates are already seeing signs that, to borrow a phrase from doom-sayers of old, 'The end is nigh.'My hard little heart was gladdened by this sorrowful mewling.Since Trump took office, the wind...

Mar 12, 2025 – Three weeks ago, a smug, crusading lawyer-type - Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) - who also happens to be a rising progressive California state assemblyman, slipped a few proposals into a bill for changes to the CA penal code. Specifically to Section 197, which defines what circumstances constitute certain crimes like...

Mar 12, 2025 – This whole Greenland thing has been a lot of fun since the moment it started. I mean, the way it just popped out of Trump's mouth like any one of those thousands of random musings he does on any given day.Then, it took on a life of its own, as...

Mar 12, 2025 – Europe, particularly the Brussels Brahmin crowd and the over-educated British elites now at the head of their disastrous Labour government, really can't stand Donald Trump.He's worse than the stereotypical 'cowboy' - the buckaroo they have always had such fun mocking.     The part they've never bothered with is taking time to study...

Mar 12, 2025 – This was kind of a wild Xweet to read from Charlie Gasparino this afternoon.Just got stopped in the subway by a dude in a suit who said “just so ya know all the lawyers at the @EPA got laid off I’m one of them.”— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 12, 2025All...

Mar 13, 2025 – Ah, the time-honored ceremony of the Shamrock Bowl.What a beautiful way to start the day.The time-honoured tradition of the Shamrock Bowl ceremony is an important moment to reflect upon the relationship between our two countries.Our peoples have stood side by side for a long time.Irish-America has been at the heart...

Mar 13, 2025 – For the past couple of weeks, I've been able to write some pretty cheery posts about the state of the US liquid natural gas (LNG) industry. How things have been looking up in the post-POTATUS pause era, and how the US has surged back into a global leadership role....The November...

Mar 13, 2025 – In yesterday's post about the collective - and expensive - efforts the Europeans and Britain have suddenly found themselves thrust into with Trump's election and their years of neglect as far as their own defense budgets went, I basically hit two points - predominantly money (of which they need a...

Mar 13, 2025 – I have really come to like this SlingBlade guy.Ever since his stroke, he has come back more and more like an actual human being and, compared to where he was before it, can string some sentences together that are rational, pragmatic, and sometimes poetry.And don't @ me about his support...

Mar 14, 2025 – I don't know about you, but I'm guessing you were like us here at casa de major dad around Inauguration Day - waiting to see what form the anti-Trump resistance, along with their street soldier factions, would assume to express their disappointment in the election results.Protests, fiery but peaceful? Contained...

Feb 28, 2025 – Ah, those fires.Lord, are they going to be expensive. And that's in today's dollars - not in 'down the road' dollars, after the elected California officials get done doing everything they can to make the cost projections even worse.This is so grim.Last month’s Palisades and Eaton wildfires caused between $28 billion...

Feb 28, 2025 – GAH-RRRROOOWWWLLLLLLLL!I just can't even with the massive overdose of testosterone flooding the airwaves.What the hell has come over this country and THANK GOD FOR IT.It's like brother Bingley says:I mean, to be perfectly honest, you could kind of see where it got off on the wrong foot right from the...

Feb 17, 2025 – MONDAY, MONDAYHaven't these normally arrogant and smugly complacent Euro-types had themselves a heckuva wake-up weekend?First they were knocked out of the coconut trees by the announcement that the Trump team was meeting the Russian team in Saudi Arabia about Ukraine, and no - the Europeans weren't invited.WASHINGTON, D.C. — US...

Feb 18, 2025 – As most of you know, I'm a sucker for history, so when I saw this Xweet earlier this morning...well...it was well nigh irresistible.HOLY SMOKESYes, it’s a real article. 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@WaywardGreg) February 18, 2025I mean, it had VURT DA FURK written all over it, not the least of which was the...

Feb 18, 2025 – I don't know what gives with some of these European countries.It's just as well they're all anti-gun - they'd shoot themselves for real.Belgium just shut down ANOTHER nuclear reactor last night.It's all so tiring.In the dead of winter, enough cheap clean power for a million houses - gone.Europe is intentionally...

Feb 19, 2025 – There's something not quite right with the mental state of progressives. What's worse is when they're in positions of power, they tend to wield it like a cudgel and flatten everyone who disagrees with them.That's basically where the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, and the cabal of lunatics she has...

Feb 20, 2025 – [Beege adds: I know, I KNOW - that's BMW's tagline. I was traumatized at the dentist's first thing this morning. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it.]It's been hard times for the auto industry, what with interest rates going up and consumer interest in the once Golden Calf-like electric vehicle...

Feb 27, 2025 – The ongoing, ever-unfolding tale that is... SAVING DEMOCRACY FROM ITSELF...continues apace in Europe. Only instead of a heroic saga of the triumph of the people, it's more an authoritarian Keystone cops tragi-comedy flavored by the usual dark Euro-twist.We've spent the fall watching Germany convulse, react, vote, and emerge utterly betrayed by their...

Feb 27, 2025 – When I saw a blurb about the Navy returning to sanity this morning, it was pretty gratifying. 🚨 JUST IN: The US Navy will no longer ask personnel about their gender identity — "intimate spaces" such as bathrooms and living quarters will now be designated strictly as male or female.The Navy...

Feb 27, 2025 – Oh, little TedrosBring me your tears!'Cuz your sad weeping?Is so schweet to my ears...This makes me smile.It makes my heart warm and fuzzy.WHO Director Tedros is fuming over Trump’s withdrawal, claiming it left the organization on the verge of collapse and in financial turmoil.Trump cut ties over their handling of...

Feb 28, 2025 – Excuse me - I should change that in the interest of being precise. Thanks to my naturally cynical nature regarding authoritarian European governments marching towards outright fascism, I only interpret it to be a 'snitch' line.The Stas...there I go again. Dammit - it's early.The democratically elected German government is, in...

Feb 27, 2025 – Businessman John Phelan, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Navy, was at his confirmation hearing today in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee.As my friend Captain John Konrad said, it had the potential to be something different, as Mr Phelan has no previous connection to the Navy and is...

Feb 25, 2025 – We've had some interesting discussions on X lately about SNAP benefits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments formerly only low-income households received.When I worked at our local family-owned grocery store in New Jersey as a teenager, we called them 'Food Stamps,' and they came in a little rip-out ticket book...