Short Takes — revisitations Trump/Putin, newspapers & media, protests + a miracle!
The old saw that “history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” brings to mind the ribald rhyme beginning with “There was a young man from Nantucket,” in relation to the Ukraine/Russia fiasco. Hungary was to host a follow-up pas de deaux featuring your President and the sack of dung representing Russia. Actually the only.. read more →
“People are dying” — and?
The Trump administration’s do-si-do with the Russian criminal in mid-August is more than a month past. In that interim Russia has dropped a drone strike on Poland, violated airspace of the Baltics, bombarded Kyiv, advanced in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kerson and Zaporzhia. It’s rattled the nuclear saber, said that everything is on the table and threatened.. read more →
Eyes as dead as their victims: Sergey Lavrov, Dmitry Medvedev & Vladie Putin
The odious stench scheduled to descend on Alaska in mid-August carries the deaths of thousands of Russians and Ukraines to US shores. Pretending that Russian leadership is a legitimate entity is an incalculable farce. Yes, these three pieces of offal represent a society with a deranged perception of its role on the world stage. Proclamations.. read more →
9/11: Being there — 12/23: Being here
Twenty-two years ago your scribe was in Washington, DC. On a beautiful Tuesday morning, standing curbside outside the Independent Petroleum Association HQ with my fellow Government Affairs practitioners, we were hailing taxis to the Hill. Just before 9am, IPAA’s Ben Dillon walked toward us waving us back into the office, “You’ve got to see this!”.. read more →
Treaties, Accords & Agreements — Disgraceful History of Deliberate Deceit
Two “diplomatic” events early in the Biden presidency characterize the bald cynicism and deceit in diplomatic “agreements, accords and treaties.” An examination of the cancellation of the Keystone pipeline and the rejoining of the Paris Climate Accords define the U.S. decline in international standing. Both political moves are just that, nothing more. No wait, they’re.. read more →
Murderous Quartet Warming Up for Main Event
The forces employing malevolence across the globe are warming up for the Main Event — confrontation with the Animal House that is Washington, D.C. Four singleminded, cold-eyed killers are in the final stages of the big push — not to annihilate the Free World, but to neutralize it in aid of imposing their leadership and.. read more →
Part II of II — How did we get here? Presidents Trump and Biden — Good Grief!!
Past is prelude to the chaos of the Trump years and the driving into the ditch by, as Joe Biden declared to one and all, the “adults are back in charge and the competence is breathtaking.” That statement followed the 2020 defeat of Donald Trump, bringing four years of tweets, petulance, bravado and misstatements to.. read more →
Part I of II How did we get here? Prelude to an American Dream/Nightmare
The PolicySmith has observed over the decades a certain element of US society pursuing the goal of the rest of the world embracing “how right and good we are.” How the US purity of purpose should be self-evident and if only they understood us the rest of the world, including Rogue States would embrace us.. read more →
The Bravado of Weak Men — Putin Rhymes History
This is about Vladimir Putin — one in a long line of bullies, murderers, sadists and garden variety sickos that have soiled humanity with their odious presence. They prey on the weak and defenseless — those easily intimidated and with fewer resources and strength to retaliate. Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Kim Il-sung and his spawn.. read more →
Carbon Tax Follies
The PolicySmith has long admired the conservative commentariat that frequents the pages of the Wall Street Journal, National Review and the late Weekly Standard. New conservative voices, among them Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, assure conservative perspectives will be given voice long into the future. Surgical skewering of the Left by Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg,.. read more →