Tough Trump Needs to Stay Tough on Self
Walter Mead’s “Napoleon’s Lessons for Trump” to not let his successful strategies go to his head are well-taken.


Hi-Crime DC Gets Taste of Trump’s Grapeshot?
President Trump deployed the National Guard, then, took control of Metro Police to restore order in DC. He’ll be villified by the left & Democrat judges may enjoin him. But, missed by most isn’t whether a war like “crisis” exists, but reality that criminals abound while police can’t be found...


Socialists & Killer Bacteria Never Die
Socialism never dies to those wanting free stuff but history shows Marx’s generous promises always fail to deliver. WSJ explains NYC Mayoral candidate Mamdadi’s rise via Camus’s bacterial allegory in “The Plague,” i.e., proponents “never disappear for good” & simply lie dormant...


Soul Food: Week of August 10, 2025
Compromise in life as well as politics is akin to the human need for air, food & water. It’s the mix of stuff like needs, desires & rights that makes heaven on earth a possibility instead of a pipe dream...


Did Matthew & Judas Change The Chosen?
Did Jesus “test” ex-tax collector Matthew, then, ex-thief Judas by trusting the one to record history & the other with the disciples’ treasury? If so, how revealing was a changed Matthew’s flight to his new job & Judas’s foolish embracing his old one unto the Great Betrayal? Will the “Chosen” finale say?


ABC’s of America’s Reading Crisis
“If you can read you can learn anything about everything & everything about anything”? Yet, studies unfailingly show Americans are failing in their reading tests, suggesting they can’t learn anything about everything...


Dems Enraged Texas Out-Gerrymanders ‘Em
WSJ tells nation’s liberal pols “Please spare us the sanctimony that the Texas gerrymander is a unique threat to democratic competition, especially when blue states like Illinois, NY & California redistrict GOP voters off the map...


Illegal Alien A “Slave” by Any Other Name?
Broaddrick posted that no one today “hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart [but] to work them harder, pay them less & undercut the competition.” If so (and it usually is), what’s the difference between 2025’s businesses & 1860’s slave owners?


Depopulation Bomb vs Population Explosion
Some might do a double take at two economists who argue as global fertility rates drop at an alarming rate, more not fewer humans is key to the species’ ability to fight its decline...


Soul Food: Week of August 3, 2025
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years that do...
























