Brexit saves Britannia
Friday, January 31, 2020 at 11 PM London time, the European Union lost one of its most powerful, wealthy members. Despite machinations and setting of obstacles, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the new Prime Minister, pulled forcefully through all adversity and accomplished what he set out to do—Brexit.
Falsehoods, boredom and the rebuttal
When the most interesting article in the Wall Street Journal is a Life and Arts piece—Revelry Restored in Bruegel’s “Wedding Dance,” (Wednesday, January 1, 2020), despite the Impeachment is going on, boredom has reached a high mark. Yes, it has. I gave up listening to...
Science running amok
Not long ago we trusted scientific information because its teachings were based on facts, gathered by trustworthy individuals seeking scientific evidence to problems. Evidence that can be replicated in multiple setting in different laboratories. However, I published...
Diversity—but not if we disagree with you
Since the late Seventies/Eighties, and perhaps even before, I noticed the trend of attacking free speech in universities and other places. If you disagreed with the theories of the left—you were silenced, shamed and labeled. In 1985 a sociology professor’s TA called...
What is capitalism?
If it were not for all the Democrat candidates maligning capitalism and proposing ridiculous monetary social schemes for the population, it would never have occurred to me to write, or even think, about capitalism. We all think that we know what the word means. It is...
A quick way to ruin a good country
On September 4, 1970 the Marxist Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile by a bloc of Socialists, Communists and Radicals. Allende was a life-long Marxist/Communist who founded a socialist party at university where he studied for a medical degree in 1932. As...
Mr. Schiff’s KGB methods
Lately, whenever I meet with friends who immigrated to the U. S. and became citizens, we speak fearfully of the changes in America. We find that once again we live in a country governed by an oligarchy of tyrants. The heavy hand of the Democrat party is felt by us...
A most troublesome partner in war or peace
Perhaps you noticed the two articles about Turkey and its leader Erdogan in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, November 14, 2019, and noticed that both articles expressed troubling observation. The first article by Vivian Salma and Michael Gordon was headlined...
A letter from the “socialist” Democratic Republic of France
I try to be assiduously correct in assigning credit to the sources I use. However, I cannot do this in this publication. Both my sources live in areas where they could be subjects to abuse if their political leanings were known. I am speaking of Oregon, USA and Paris,...
Letters from the land of “ruthless capitalism”—Sweden and the Nordic countries
Sometimes interesting things arrive at my desk in a round-about way. Since I peruse the Wall Street Journal consistently and believe that I miss very little of interest, I was taken aback to receive the following report from my Swedish friend, Helle, residing in...
Erdogan is a bigger evil to the Kurds than Syria’s Al-Assad
We all remember Bashar al-Assad’s poison gas attacks on the Kurdish population during President Obama’s governance. They were the poison killings, driving Obama to draw the famous red line, which al-Assad promptly crossed and poisoned some more. The world was aghast...
Oh, ouch! The 2019 pig book just came out
Yes, Ouch—for the outlook is grim. However, I am pleased that there is someone out there keeping an eye on Washington’s Piggery. Last year, too, I wrote about the waste of taxpayer money. I believe we need to know the results presented by the committee that keeps an...