Feb 16, 2024 – Welp. Alexei Navalny is dead. According to the authorities at the Arctic Circle prison camp Putin had banished him to, he keeled over after a walk. Simple as that. Sure, they called an ambulance, but, oh well - too late.  This is awful, but who are we talking...

Feb 15, 2024 – Is it spring or something? It was 39° in balmy Pensacola yesterday morning. So chilly, major dad was scraping frost off of Eleanor the '96 Toyota so he could see driving to work. I mean, that felt really good. The house has stayed around 66° all day. Man, I...

Feb 15, 2024 – Ford CEO Jim Farley always thought that his company and the United Auto Workers UAW) rubbed along pretty well together. That is until this past summer and fall when the UAW's pugnacious new president Shawn Fain - after scoring a massive contract victory at UPS - turned his sights on...

Feb 15, 2024 – This is sure happening a lot lately. Seems everything near, dear, cuddly, and familiar is somehow being tainted by other things that aren't quite right. Disney's dead to us, beavers in children's Saturday cartoons have mastectomy scars, plant-based Kraft macaroni and cheese, and men in tuck bathing suits win...

Feb 15, 2024 – The fragile, grossly incompetent former union toadie currently finishing off what was left of the city of Chicago after being elected mayor - Brandon Johnson - has made another decision fulfilling a campaign promise: canceling the city's contract with ShotSpotter. Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Tuesday that he won’t renew...

Feb 14, 2024 – Welp...maybe later, huh? There had been some movement to the downside in rates lately, giving everyone hopeful little frissons in their extremities. It sure looked like the Good Ship USS POTATUS was going to right itself in spite of him. Mortgage Rates Are Finally Falling: See How Much...

Feb 14, 2024 – Oh, this is going to be a short one. God, I h#*e these people. Climate activists pour red powder on the case holding the original US Constitution at the National Archives in Washington DC. For now, it's unclear if the document was damaged, but they were allowed to go...

Feb 14, 2024 – Another day, another uber-blue state shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - by the audacity of the federal government (whom they normally can't get enough of) coming onto their home turf and upsetting all their carefully laid plans. Five days ago, I was writing about California, and the folks...

Feb 14, 2024 – There are protected classes, and then there are protected classes.  One of the first tells that a person feels they belong to a special group who deserve privileges not normally afforded to the peasants milling in everyday life around their feet occurs when questions arise concerning something that same...

Feb 13, 2024 – I am a firm "AYE" on this one.  Please, for the love of God, you all. GO FOR IT .@jmpalmieri: "The more Americans see him talking, the less impact those individual goofs will have." — Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) February 13, 2024 Put creepy Mr Whispering Mumbles...

Feb 13, 2024 – Bummed as I was when Ron DeSantis bowed gracefully out of the presidential scrum, it was nice to have arguably the finest chief executive in fifty states back home in Florida running things full-time. He hasn't taken a breather to recuperate from the campaigning either, plunging right back into...

Feb 13, 2024 – I'm talking about the one for the 3rd Congressional District in Long Island Jazz touched on earlier, between the registered Democrat but Republican nominee Mazi Pilip and her challenger, Democrat Tom Suozzi. Only in New York, right? Like Santos wasn't trippy enough. Throughout their campaigns for the seat,...

Feb 13, 2024 – Don't you love it when a plan comes together? Just like we drew it up. pic.twitter.com/9NBvc5nVZE — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 12, 2024 This preening group of pathetic amateurs sure think they do.  If only the tubers running our government had one. I'd even settle for any of them...

Feb 12, 2024 – I'm pretty sure you think, "Oh, here comes a lecture about Democrats and the War on Poverty."  You're safe - I'll be sparing you that. Instead, it's a look at what China's done to themselves. Their current tenuous state of affairs started with worries about overpopulation - and...

Feb 12, 2024 – When you've only got two big boats left, and the two of them are...well...busted, that's gonna leave a mark. In fact, when they break down on their way out of port, with the harbor closed to other traffic, and everyone lining the quays and roadways in anticipation of watching...

Feb 12, 2024 – What a horribly frightening time it had to be at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church near Houston yesterday afternoon. A woman who walked into a popular Texas megachurch Sunday afternoon with a long gun and a young child opened fire before she was killed by law enforcement officers on scene. The...

Feb 12, 2024 – A new year and more of the same grim news rolling in for the Greens running Germany. It's all fahrvergnügies as far as the eye can see - nary a glimmer of hope. Happy New Year, Greens - looks like you pulled it off. Germany's Days as...

Aug 27, 2024 – As the Bond villains ruling the European Union rub their hands together in conspiratorial brotherhood, testing the scope of their censorial authoritarian powers on unsuspecting international travelers who inadvertently touchdown in one of their capital airports, the 1st Amendment hamstrings United States tyrants. A pesky Constitution compels these advocates of...

Aug 27, 2024 – Hey - tell you what. Those German liberal and Green parties are pretty dang slick, even when their backs are up against an election wall.There's no quit in them, even when the pooled water that hosed blood from the murdered bodies of their fellow Germans off the sidewalk and cobblestones...

Aug 27, 2024 – Well.This is not good.Wind turbines in Schuyler County, Missouri, seem to be having problems remaining upright. This happened Sunday morning.It happened off of State Highway O in Schuyler County, about three miles east of Queen City, near the Ameren Missouri High Prairie substation.The call came into the Schuyler County Sheriff's...

Aug 28, 2024 – There have been times recently when you can about smell the panic in the air from Democrats and their toadies.I don't imagine it's been helped that Kamala couldn't even manage a dead cat bounce coming out of the DNC - surely they were counting on some little bit of spark...

Aug 28, 2024 – When they tell you who they are, believe them.That's pretty much where the New York Times was yesterday, in a dreamy, gooey little number, waxing rhapsodic over the ascendency of "former prosecutor" Sir Keir Starmer to Prime Minister of England.Could Starmer, the dewy-eyed scribblers of drivel dreamed, lead former prosecutor...

Aug 28, 2024 – On the 21st of August, an unescorted Greek oil tanker, the Sounion, came under attack from the explosive munitions happy Houthi shooty rebels in Yemen attempting a Red Sea transit. The vessel received multiple combined weapons blows from small arms and at least four explosive projectiles (no word yet if...

Aug 28, 2024 – And J.D. Vance is that guy.God bless all the moaners, groaners, and the double-belly-aching Greek chorus who cannot begin to stop with their doomcasting about Trump's vice presidential nominee pick.Go jump in a lake.This kid - and he's a kid to me - is rockin' the house.Audience member: "Where's your...

Aug 21, 2024 – I am all ears for some cackling "ROI" (return on investment) argle-bargle explaining our first item of the day.The Fed is getting ready to meet, and they've got their accounting pencils - and erasers - ready to go. To help them make a decision on the state of the economy,...