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From the mouth of an American leader whom the world was prone to take more seriously, a comment that Putin shouldn’t be in power would have significant consequences. It’s probably a good thing that no one, from Moscow to London to Paris to Berlin, and parts beyond, cares what Biden thinks on the matter. Not since…

1. Ramadan and the period around it is often a time of escalating Islamic terrorism. 2. Even so this is one of the worst terror death tolls in Israel within such a limited time frame in quite a long time. 3. The wave of terror coincides with Secretary of State Blinken’s visit, the visits of…

Venezuela is not just another socialist Latin American dictatorship. In the last 5 years, law enforcement and the justice system have identified its regime as the leadership of an international drug cartel. Narcosocialism and narcoterrorism are not unusual phenomena in the region, but the failure to remove Maduro, who heads the regime and a drug…

Ineptitude and corruption are not a new phenomenon for Russia’s military which has always made up for in sheer numbers, ruthlessness, and firepower what it lacked in strategic and logistic areas, not to mention morale. Russia’s military has combined aspirational First World equipment with Third World people. But there’s no reason to gloat. It’s not at…

More green follies from a budget that is happy to spend the green while kicking inflation up another notch. Increases Demand for American Made, Zero-Emission Vehicles through Federal Procurement.  The Budget invests $757 million for zero-emission fleet vehicles and supporting charging or fueling infrastructure in the individual budgets of 19 Federal agencies to provide an…

We’re starting to get more inside baseball stories about the Hunter Biden investigation. The last one was in the New York Times. This one is in the Wall Street Journal. Pieces providing insight into what’s going inside appearing in prestigious papers is not, as I warned previously, a good thing. The ground is being seeded for…

Considering that equity is shorthand for affirmative action and other forms of legalized racial and other kinds of discrimination, this should be fiercely rejected. Worse still, the Biden administration declares that “equity” drives all of its decisions. The 2023 budget contains a paragraph titled, “Advancing Equity as a Core Part of Government Management and Decision…