Aug 27, 2026 – Apocalyptic fiction is meant to be a warning, you know. And it can be explosive and unnerving in its admonishments, urging you to take action to avoid the forecast disaster. The fire and brimstone that are headed in your direction are vividly described as a horrifying certainty if you don't...

Aug 28, 2026 – Unless someone coughs up a red, spotty corpse pretty quickly, power-mad Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is going to have some serious 'splainin' to do.Even more than he does already.I've had two posts on the governor and aspiring presidential candidate this week. The first was about the revelation of a terrifying...

Aug 24, 2026 – The world right now is in a bit of a precarious energy pinch. There is lots of what we need available. Getting it delivered is currently the biggest problem.If oil isn't moving at its usual volume through the Strait of Hormuz, it has to be rerouted in a different direction,...

Aug 24, 2026 – September 6th is fast approaching, and depending on what side of the cordon sanitaire you are on, you are either dreading it or giddy with anticipation.That is the day the Germans living in Saxony-Anhalt, in the former East Germany, go to the polls to elect their next state government, and...

Aug 24, 2026 – Back in January, as border crossings dropped to near-unbelievable and infinitesimal numbers considering what they had been merely 12 months before, the Trump administration was already on the hunt, looking for the next way to tighten up on illegal aliens in the country.One obvious starting point was visa overstays. There...

Aug 24, 2026 – Holy SMOKES!Who would have ever seen this coming? I mean, everything's a crapshoot nowadays, honestly.6-3, baby. The states, if I read this correctly, had no standing to challenge Trump's executive order.The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Monday in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in...

Aug 26, 2026 – It's sort of ironic that one of my posts yesterday was about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's use of a health department regulatory rewrite to do an end run around a state constitutional amendment that truncated his emergency dictatorial powers.One of the new additions to the list of justifications for invoking...

Aug 26, 2026 – Two days ago, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States gave the Trump administration the okay to begin implementing an executive order regarding how the Post Office would handle mail-in ballots.First things first - let's clarify exactly what all the fuss is about with these ballots...

Aug 26, 2026 – It seems like only yesterday. But it's been five years since the unthinkable, unforgivable, and entirely predictable happened to thirteen of our finest.Thirteen individual, precious pieces of American treasure.Lordy.Ed's posting during that ghastly day is replete with examples of the chaos unfolding, and then the horrible news as word of American casualties began...

Aug 26, 2026 – If there is something that is causing only slightly less angst in the general public's equilibrium than the current wars over data centers, I would have to guess it's the ongoing battle against the proliferation of these Flock cameras. The supposed 'license plate' readers that are capable of doing so...

Aug 28, 2026 – Once upon a time, during my misspent youth, I actually had a good time entering a couple of the local beauty pageants. Not being one blessed with a lot of natural grace, it was a good experience to have to stand up straight and try to walk 'gracefully,' instead of...

Aug 28, 2026 – Four days ago, Sec. Treasury Scott Bessent held a press conference to announce that he would be going after the funding mechanisms that the Iranian Republic is still using to try to stay afloat.The Sec. Treas. laid out in no uncertain terms that this would be a merciless economic 'onslaught'...

Aug 28, 2026 – Venezuela.Bringing that country back into the Monroe Doctrine fold looks as if it's about to pay off spectacularly. And just as the entire region, with only a few snarling commie holdouts hanging on, turns to the United States, freedom, and capitalism after decades of communist and Marxist insurgencies, drug cartel...

Jun 16, 2026 – What is it with Chicago and the horse poopy stories?Just wanted to get the word out that they'd arrested someone after an intensive search.So, lemme set the stage here in case you hadn't heard about this latest racist outrage and been shocked and horrified.Someone, in broad daylight, dragged a seven-foot...

Jun 23, 2026 – Some of these uber-progressive federal district court judges certainly love getting out over their skis, rewriting or completely disallowing every last tenet of the rules and regulations the Trump administration has put in place to try to cut waste, fraud, and abuse across all aspects of the federal bureaucracy.I realize...

Jun 23, 2026 – This is SO on-brand for California, and Newsom's peculiar trademark, laidback incompetence, it just blows the mind.It's been six long years since COVID, masks, six feet separation in line, social distancing, mandated vaxxes, and the oleaginous governor arresting solitary surfers on deserted beaches.You know what he hasn't done in all...

Jun 19, 2026 – Rugged good looksUnruly single curl that occasionally escapes his dark, lush locks to fall across his foreheadCleft chinDancing, humor-filled eyesLong, tall sip o' waterMarried, with childrenWickedly sharp and rapier quick with itGraham Platner, right?      Democrats can only fever dream and try to wishcast their lumpy, testosterone-challenged assortment of 'male' specimens into...

Jun 22, 2026 – This morning, it became official - the rumours swirling from this weekend, the air of speculation and inevitability, the 'would he, could he' questions, the sudden frantic jostling for position in the wings, and the hope for change at whatever cost were all answered.The United Kingdom's two-year national nightmare was...

Jun 24, 2026 – With fond memories of the last time Germany ramped up its war machine, you might think that's okay. Any sane person would in normal circumstances.But these days, with Trump on NATO's and the European allies' backs about carrying their own weight, coupled with all their empty smacktalk about how they...

Jun 24, 2026 – Gustavo Petro, who just 24 hours ago was still whining about stolen elections, and Romania...En Rumania la simple ingerencia extranjera facultó a la Corte Europea a anular las elecciones. De Ruma¿A quien se le demanda que las elecciones en Colombia que tuvieron una clara y confesa intervención extranjera se anulen?Qué...

Jun 25, 2026 – Ah, this New York thing, the City in particular.Man.The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) scored themselves the trifecta in the Democratic primaries on Tuesday, as most everyone knows by now. The poster boy and current mayor of New York City set some teeth on edge early in campaigns by dissing...

Jun 25, 2026 – There have been plenty of stories I wish I could have followed up on, and sometimes I'm lucky enough to get additional information later that gives me a chance to flesh out or expand on whatever the subject had been.And then there are mornings like this, where there is a...

Jun 25, 2026 – Yesterday, my VIP piece was on the emergence of the latest excuse for an inexcusable act - 'the COVID made me do it.'It all revolved around one of those silly 'youths' who already had a litany of baked-in excuses for his truly abysmal life choices - drug baby, supposedly abandoned,...

Jun 17, 2026 – Has it really only been twenty years since the great bloviating charlatan started his Gorebal Warmering hoax (as Bingley and I affectionately called it two decades ago on The Swilling)?Gosh, I guess it has. And somehow, in spite of ourselves and his blustering grift, we have survived. A little beaten...

Jun 17, 2026 – Well, howdy, doody, what have we here?There has been an odd kind of divergence in the reactions to Patel's announcement about the arrest of five men who had, according to the indictments, devised a pretty involved plan to blow up President Trump's UFC Freedom 250 fight at the White House.@CBSNews...