Collecting My Thoughts

The new War on Terror is against President Trump, his lawyers, his donors, and all the voters who voted for him. The Republican leadership i...

I was watching Israeli TV this morning while cycling in place (my office). They are loving the snow in Jerusalem--a new event for many. Wait...

Why now, Cuba? First, when Castro took over they were propped up by the USSR. Then when it collapsed they turned to Venezuela which Cuba had...

Our book club (on Zoom these days) will be discussing "The Candy Bombers" by Andrei Cherny this Monday. It's an absorbing book...

I'm older than my Facebook friend Michael Smith, but we have some shared memories, except mine would begin with the Hungarian Revolution...

“For anyone wondering about corporate socialism and what I mean by it, it's very simple: State socialism is socialist only "on the ...

The city council (Democrats) of Minneapolis is announcing to the world not to come there to invest, to do business, to be a tourist, to send...

"Senator Sanders points to the Scandinavian model as an example of what it means to have health care as a right. Senator Sanders has tr...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has pushed Democrats out of the closet--they are finally honest about who they are. Elizabeth Warren wants to...

“Eighty years ago (November 17, 1938) Stalin ended the Great Terror, citing “local excesses” that had come to his attention. It wasn’t until...

I'm reading "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles for September book club. It's a great read, and I admit to being thrill...

Not that the organizers of today's women's march will tell the snowflakes the significance of March 8, 1917, or the color red, but ...

Last night on TVO (Ontario public TV) we watched a riveting and scary documentary, “ The Man who saved the World.”   It was like a reality s...

70 years ago. Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. There aren't many survivors left--and most were chil...

Mitt Romney was so right; Obama ridiculed him and the main stream press yukked it up.  Palin was right in 2008 and the press ridiculed her. ...

                     Perhaps not many noticed (it seems a record low are watching), but NBC in the Sochi opening glossed over the 70 years...

From the east side of the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama gave an extraordinary speech today sketching out his plans for a new global orde...

The old Soviet Union had a solution for our shrinking supply of doctors which is coming our way.  Feldshars with a few years of medical trai...

From Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over...

That's what the Libyan rebels have been shouting into the TV cameras. Sorry fellas, that's what they said in Eastern Europe and the...