RELIGION AND THE UNITED STATES
Religion and the United States is a topic I have written about several times in past blogs. In particular, I have discussed the fact that …
RE-EVALUATING ROAD COLLISIONS
Re-evaluating Road collisions: Almost 30 years ago, a revolutionary idea changed the way Europe regarded road collisions. It has probably saved countless lives, but it’s …
CONGRESSIONAL MORONIC SOCIETY
The Congressional Moronic Society spectacle last week of showing up outside the courthouse in Manhattan where Donald Trump was on trial, has to go down …
ALAN LICHTMAN
Alan Lichtman has been called the Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections. He has correctly predicted the result of nine of the past 10, and even …
PYONGYANG
Pyongyang: A major missile supplier? In January 2024, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Krystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into …
TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE
I don’t often publish, verbatim, an article from somewhere else, but a Time Magazine article this week is so poignant and direct that it needs …
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT BLACKMAIL
Israeli Government blackmail sounds plausible under many scenarios, including the way that I mean it here. The Israeli government has, for many years, successfully played …
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
I have been a fan of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program for many years. It was founded in Geneva in 1968, to provide a high-level …
AUSTRALIA’S SPY CHIEF
We all know that Vladimir Putin is engaged in a massive effort to undermine western democracies, whether through the obvious war in Ukraine which threatens …
FLAT TAX RATE
I read two reports recently that made me resurrect my previous thoughts about a flat tax rate for the United States. The concept of …