Jun 6, 2024 – ...they stormed the beaches at Normandy.THE LONGEST DAYSo many were so young. And there were so many.The story of D-Day can be partly told in the numbers. Nearly 160,000 allied troops landed. Almost 7,000 allied ships and over 11,000 allied aircraft supporting operations. 4,400 allied dead. 2,400 American casualties at...

Jun 7, 2024 – It was cutting-edge, green-as-all-get-out, ahead of the curve, and wicked cool for bragging rights while it lasted, which wasn't very long. Rental car giant Hertz is still dealing with the aftermath of its badly executed 2021 decision to go all-in on an Electric Vehicle fleet....But the problem for Hertz wasn’t...

Jun 6, 2024 – This announcement out of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's office yesterday is pretty cool news. In 2021, under the benevolent eye of uber-prog Democratic black-face aficionado Gov Ralph Northam, the completely Democratic-held VA legislature decided to commit the state to follow the California emission standards, which, as everyone knows, are tougher than...

Jun 6, 2024 – I'm sure we're gonna hear this was just all a big mistake, maybe a big joke "gone wrong," right...?But ya know - somehow, it doesn't seem like it was.To get this far, oooh - stinks of something pretty darn deliberate and pretty damn vile.East Brunswick High School, NJ - the...

Jun 7, 2024 – There has to be some serious Pepto Bismol chugging going on in the hallowed halls of Brussels as European Union elites face arguably the most severe challenges to their uninterrupted rule yet. From Geert Wilders' improbable recent triumph on their own front doorstep to the unremitting rise of the populist...

Jun 7, 2024 – Yay! More jobs! Boo! No interest cut!In any event, that's the headline based on the numbers that came in this morning.The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in May, countering fears of a slowdown in the labor market and likely reducing the Federal Reserve’s impetus to lower interest...

Jun 12, 2024 – We've had some pretty spicy discussions here over the past couple of weeks concerning the direction Europe was going to take, and what seemed like most of us felt was a general sense of doom, gloom, pessimism, and panic emanating from the Brussels elite. There was an absolute flurry of...

Jun 12, 2024 – As originally planned, the wind farm project christened "Lava Ridge" was going to be built on almost 200,000 acres in southern Idaho. Most of those would federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)....The Lava Ridge Wind Project would consist of 400 turbines up to 740 feet in...

Jun 12, 2024 – Droughts come, droughts go. Some last a little longer than others. Many are part of recurring climatological patterns as evinced in the historical record in any given area documented via tree rings and sediment layers back through time immemorial.Some last nowhere near as long as the folks who make their...

May 22, 2024 – Don't think for one flaming second that there isn't any tragedy the Legion of True Believers - yesterday's Singapore Air mishap with over 30 people hurt and one life lost - won't exploit in the name of the climate cult. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: I don't care how many damn crackers you...

May 22, 2024 – In 2020, a law passed the California legislature without any really meaningful review or public comment. 'The Racial Justice Act' was authored by a state rep named Ash Kalra. ...The law prohibits bias based on race, ethnicity, or national origin in charges, convictions, and sentences issued in court. It permits a...

May 23, 2024 – Everyone is well aware that when a Johnson thinks they're right, they're gonna let you know in no uncertain terms.  There's currently no Johnson like Brandon Johnson, especially in charge of a major American city.And when hizzoner is right? By-God-wait-a-dang-minute, he's right.All you have to do to find out is question...

May 23, 2024 – That was quite the wrap-up and never once did his energy flag. I honestly didn't get any sense of even one of those Trumpian moments where he stepped on his wang going off-message. This was a pure appeal to his audience and damn if he didn't know them right down...

May 24, 2024 – It's not a laptop in first class or a cheap Chinese scooter smoking ominously in the plane's cargo hold. Nor is it a massive commercial ship packed to the gills with cars being transported across an ocean that has had one of the EVs parked onboard light off, and now...

May 24, 2024 – This is my fun Friday post. Holy smokes, I just can't resist snickering about it.He's so smug. He's so smooth. He's...a WHUT?!And I'm ded.Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, such as saying former President Obama is MuslimAre you kidding me? "Obvious error"?For example, when asked how many Muslim presidents the...

May 24, 2024 – Things are quickly reaching a boiling point in the European ruling Left versus rising right-wing political wars as the angst about upcoming European Union elections reaches a fever pitch.German Greens especially, but progressives across the EU have been throwing shade at populist parties for months now, as regional after regional...

May 27, 2024 – Memorial Day weekends are especially hard at our house. As a military family with someone in uniform for every conflict this great nation has faced going back to the Revolutionary War, we have a reverence for this land, what it takes to defend it, and those who do. We cherish...

May 31, 2024 – Until I hit a Marine Corps flightline, I had no idea what "chocks" were unless connected in a phrase to "Full O' Nuts."What can I say? I was a veritable babe in the north Jersey woods.For those who haven't been introduced to "chocks," this is what they are (watch what...

May 31, 2024 – One week ago I wrote a post about how "right wing" AfD (Alternative for Germany) party representatives in the European Parliament (called MEPs for Members of the European Parliament) had been booted from their EU coalition by Marine LePen's group. Whatever the alleged catalyst - a brouhaha over "unacceptable" remarks...

May 29, 2024 – (With apologies to Albert Hammond)Anyone with half a brain saw this coming from at least a mile away and was told either 1) they were crazy that would never happen or 2) shut up, infidel.Bad enough that the Golden State has sold everyone a bill of goods on their solar...

May 29, 2024 – Well...okay.Maybe the man didn't EXACTLY say that. I might have employed a little poetic license, but come on now - the effect is the same.He said "no" to politely worded requests for recusal in a couple kind of important cases coming up that Dems would dearly love to puncture the conservative...

May 30, 2024 – Crooked POTATUS better pray a jury convicts Trump today because the results his terrific #Bidenomics keep producing are fixin' to put paid to his wife's continued occupation of her imperial throne.Wall Street's already in a swoon this morning - 9:30 CST and the Dow's been banging around the -400 points...

May 30, 2024 – In the wake of Biden's epically disastrous Afghanistan retreat - you remember. That's the one where desperate Afghans fell to the tarmac after clinging to airplanes in bids to escape, and 13 precious American service members perished in a suicide bombing at the gates of the Kabul Airport.Biden couldn't wait...

May 30, 2024 – For all the money the Biden administration has been frantically shoveling into the wind sector - I'm praying this is a last-minute, panicked gambit on their part because November looks dicey - it's all coming to late to help out some of the biggest names in wind turbine development.Siemens Gamesa,...

May 31, 2024 – For an "international" judicial body to which the countries and individuals upon which they're rendering judgment aren't even signatories authorizing the power they believe they have the almighty authority to wield, the clowns on the International Criminal Court (ICC) sure have an outsized opinion of themselves.In the first place, who...