‘Twas on a grey, damp and dismal day in January that, together with a couple of my ‘dementia friends’, I headed off to Fort Nelson, one of Palmerston’s Follies. This particular Fort is not quite [more…]
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was sunny and a little warmer when I went out this morning. Yesterday, I popped into the office to see if the Sunday crew were slacking with no Legohead [more…]
The history of relations between Jews (and later Israel) and Persians (later Iran) stretches back over two and a half millennia and is more than a simple narrative of continuous hostility. For much of that [more…]
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose of reality. Consider the UK. [more…]
Americans know Somalia from the film “Black Hawk Down” based on the U.S. intervention of 1993. The U.S. had armed Somalia’s strong man, Siad Barre, as a counter to Ethiopia’s Marxist government, but with the [more…]
Three years later, on December 23, 1913, with Congress half-empty and senators racing home for Christmas, their manuscript — renamed the Federal Reserve Act, cosmetically altered, and attributed to a different political faction — was [more…]
US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has introduced a federal spending restraint bill, called the “Six Penny Plan” that may actually work. The basic concept is simple. Each year for the next five years Congress [more…]
Monday Good morning, my friends. It’s quite nice out this morning, with high cloud and watery sunshine. The forecast says the really good weather has gone for a bit. What a pity, I was enjoying [more…]
The US is ignorant of how to achieve two major goals: security and prosperity. Due to this ignorance, it has engaged in an undeclared war in the Middle East and has instituted protective tariffs at [more…]
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