December 8, 2021

Breaking the Maritime Shipping Impasse

Two new laws in California have degraded the air quality in the Los Angeles area. One is Assembly Bill 5 and a new California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulation banning older diesel trucks from operating in the state. Assembly Bill 5 has basically...

March 27, 2020

The case for accusing China of crimes against humanity

In the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, crimes against humanity are well defined.  With respect to China's handling of the Wuhan Coronavirus, there is sufficient evidence that the Communist Party of China is guilty of c...

February 3, 2020

Is the Coronavirus Outbreak China's Chernobyl?

To refresh our memories, it was in 1986 when the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and was burning as the solid fuel rods of Uranium melted down. The smoke and steam from the fire and firefighting spread across North...

December 30, 2019

Before there was an FBI there was the U.S. Marshals Service

It has been said often that a fish rots from the head. This pearl of wisdom holds as true for fish as it does for politics. The recent I.G. Horowitz report on the DoJ and the FBI has a refrain that is repeated often in the report; “the highest ...

December 29, 2019

The death of decorum

This might be considered a very late obituary concerning the death of decorum in our political system. Pinning down the exact time of death is a difficult task since the erosion of decorum has been ongoing for some decades now. Perhaps the first indi...

April 30, 2019

Is Spygate a recycled 1970s plot?

There is a long forgotten plot, which brought down a world leader back in the 1970s, that has an eerily similar storyline to the current failed attempt to bring down President Trump.  There were Deep State intelligence operatives actively w...

February 27, 2019

Politicians are not innovators

The exceptions that prove the rule are Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.  Franklin is well known as the inventor of the Franklin stove and Jefferson for the swivel chair, among other innovations. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Gree...

January 9, 2019

What Trump should have said in his border speech

It is said that there are no ribbons for the family members who are related to lung cancer victims because it was a personal choice that the individual could have avoided.  Is that why there are no ribbons for the family members who have lo...

September 23, 2018

The cure for air pollution?

Eighty-seven days of continuous poor air quality in Los Angeles County and the surrounding areas are now over.  This is the longest stretch of uninterrupted heavy smog for the L.A. area in twenty years.  As with all things environ...

January 13, 2018

Cryptocurrency and Fiat Money

There is a rumor swirling on Wall Street that China may be reversing its decades-old policy of buying U.S. Treasury Bills (T-Bills), which is giving bond-traders a case of nerves.  If China does not buy T-Bills, then the Federal Reserv...

August 14, 2017

The Tao of crisis diplomacy

In the written Chinese language, the ideogram character for "crisis" is made up of two Chinese words that are "danger" and "opportunity."  When dealing with Asian counties, it is wise to remember that small but impo...

February 16, 2017

The Sununu gambit counter-move

General Michael Flynn's resignation was a predictable outcome in Washington politics.  This type of political assassination goes back as far as Julius Caesar, only in modern-day Washington, they use the media and not daggers.  Usually, ...

February 1, 2017

Time for Bretton Woods 2.0

It is rumored that the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, is reading everything she can to try to understand President Trump. One suggestion for her reading list would be The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival by Sir John Glubb. In his short ...

December 6, 2016

A Great Flood of Information

In the wake of the 2016 election, there have been efforts at soul searching by politicians on both left and right. But neither side has been able to focus on the fact that the river of history is at a flood stage and is washing away the banks on both...

December 6, 2015

Islam and human sacrifice

As the mainstream media continues to bend over backwards to avoid the mention of the words "radical Islamic terrorism" in the wake of the San Bernardino, California attack, other more thoughtful individuals are beginning to ponder: what is ...

June 19, 2013

Impeach Eric Holder

As the Washington media continues to trip over the stumbling blocks of administration scandals and echoes of Watergate bounce off the buildings across the Potomac River, the question comes to mind: Will there be impeachment hearings this summer as th...

December 11, 2012

A Constitutional Credit Limit

As the clock ticks away on the national debt limit, some folks on the left are suggesting that we take advice from Buzz Lightyear and raise the debt limit "to infinity and beyond." They may have a point. If every time the government reaches the maxim...

November 24, 2012

The New National Emblem; The Ostrich

As we approach the "fiscal cliff" of punitive taxation and draconian spending cuts it might be time to suggest that Congress consider that we change our National Emblem to the Ostrich. Shortly after World War II, Churchill and Truman were riding a ...

November 22, 2012

A Toast to Socialist Countries

Many on the left, when arguing the superiority of socialism, often point to the Scandinavian countries of Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as examples of the perfect socialist utopia.  What the left either fails to consider or chooses to ign...

November 9, 2012

The Nullification Movement

One thing overlooked in the uproar surrounding the election is the nullification of federal narcotics law in Washington state and Colorado. If these laws are allowed to stand without challenge from Eric Holder's Justice Department, then the green lig...

September 6, 2012

Drowning in Red Ink

This week the national debt topped out at over $16,000,000,000,000. I guess that is why the official logo of the Democratic National Convention looks as if the Obama "O" has people drowning in red ink. If the logo is viewed upside down it resembles t...

July 25, 2012

How to Abolish the Department of Energy

It has been said by almost every conservative candidate running for office this year that they would like to abolish the Jimmy Carter government legacy, the Department of Energy (DOE). Back in the 1970s when the Department of Energy was created the C...

July 20, 2012

Yes, Mr. President we owe our success to others... in the energy industry

This past week the President made what seemed like an outlandish claim at the time, that those folks that are successful in this country owe their success to others. Mr. President you are right in more ways than you know. When it comes right down to ...

April 28, 2012

The Search for the 100-MPG Car

Since the 1970s, it has been the quest of the United States to achieve energy-independence.  To that end, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Energy so that the federal government could write checks to companies like Solyndra --...

May 15, 2010

The American Power Act: A Bitter Pill

Bad things are said to happen on Friday the thirteenth. This year the thirteenth fell on a Thursday in May but that did not stop the gremlins on Capital Hill from creating mischief. The two gremlins hardest at work are Senators Lieberman and Kerry. T...

May 3, 2010

European Socialism is Bleeding like Stuck PIGS

Over that past several months we have been watching the slow death of European Socialism due to the hemorrhage of red ink which massively inefficient social programs have caused. The countries that are bleeding the most red ink are Portugal, Ireland,...

April 29, 2010

The Climategate Investigation

Last month, while the American media were distracted by the health care vote in Congress, the British Parliament published the results of its investigation into East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that has been at the center of the a...

March 19, 2010

Global Warming on Trial

In 2005, the late Dr. Michael Crichton wrote a book of fiction called State of Fear. The plot of the storyline is the exposé of the fraudulent science behind the global warming theory in the middle of a fictitious court case. The book was a be...

February 21, 2010

Climategate: What's Wrong with this Picture?

Scientific Nobel Prizes are traditionally awarded to scientists whose work has been found to be a foundational discovery in the fields of physics, chemistry, or medicine. However the rules are different for a Nobel Peace Prize. The Peace Prize is mor...

February 5, 2010

Climategate: Is It Criminal?

The potential criminality of the Climategate scandal is exactly the issue that is being investigated by authorities in Britain. The British Parliament has convened hearings to investigate East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit to uncove...

January 24, 2010

Climategate: Just Sign on the Dotted Line

The mainstream media were convinced of global warming theory's legitimacy by the warnings supposedly signed by large numbers of the world's climate scientists. The propagandists in this effort were led by the now-discredited Dr. Phil Jones of Br...

January 18, 2010

Climategate: The Truth Hurts When It Hits You in the Head

The joke on the internet these days is "What do Tiger Woods and Phil Jones of East Anglia University in Britain have in common? They both got hit in the head by a model." In 2007, Professors David Douglass, John Christy, Benjamin Pearson, a...

January 14, 2010

Climategate: How to Hide the Sun

The Climategate crowd successfully worked to obscure the connection between solar activity and climate. The leaked CRU e-mails reveal how.In 2003, two Harvard-Smithsonian Professors, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, published a peer-reviewed paper in...

January 7, 2010

Climategate and the Migrating Arctic Tree Line

One of the more enlightening e-mails to spill out of the Climategate scandal is a report on the progress of Siberian fossilized tree ring work. The report, dated October 9, 1998, focuses on some two thousand samples of fossilized trees thirty-three n...

December 16, 2009

Climategate's Stubborn Facts

Mark Twain once said, "Get your facts first, then distort them as much as you please." By contrast, he also exclaimed, "How empty is theory in the presence of fact!" This pretty well covers the recent controversy over the altered ...

December 11, 2009

Obama didn't get his Nobel for economics

Something seems to have escaped the notice of the media during the events in Oslo, and that is that the Nobel Committee did not give President Obama the Nobel Prize in economics, and with the un-employment rate over 10% and a national debt over $12 t...

December 10, 2009

Freedom from responsibility; the Hierarchy of Needs

According to the late Professor Abraham Maslow, all humans have needs. He organized these needs in to a pyramid. This pyramid is known as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. At the bottom of the pyramid are the most basic of needs to stay alive such as air,...

December 8, 2009

The Red Sea

With the national debt topping out over $12,020,717,005,598 the Ship of State is now sailing in a sea of red ink. But is this foreign or domestic ink? According to the U.S. Treasury Department 25% of the debt is owed to foreign interests. With your s...

December 1, 2009

Sound as a dollar?

The old joke is that a man gets a check-up from his doctor and the doctor comes back with all of the results and says "You're as sound as a dollar." and the man responds "That bad!" Today the price of gold is now more than $1100 p...