February 6, 2025

Why not let the Afrikaners in?

Elon Musk seems to be at the head of a drive to allow White South Africans to immigrate to America as refugees. While the present Zeitgeist might disapprove, I say: Why Not? Only a small summary of history is needed. The Dutch East India Com...

January 29, 2025

De Gaulle Set a Pattern For Trump

I have a hero, one that is rather odd for an American like me: Charles De Gaulle. A man who rescued a dying France, which was surviving only on life support and former glory, and stabilized its deteriorating situation -- to leave his country som...

January 15, 2025

The Problem of Free Speech

In 2004, an Israeli ambassador to Sweden destroyed an artwork that depicted a Palestinian terrorist as a hero. Was that appropriate? The question posed then still troubles us. The art installation consisted of a rectangular basin filled with red...

January 4, 2025

The Forgotten Turf

There is a forgotten piece of turf — at least to us Americans — that has probably the greatest effect on history outside Jerusalem.  Yet, thanks to name changes and legends crowding out the truth — if they really be legend...

January 3, 2025

Let's Aim for Historical Accuracy

As an amateur historian -- and probably not a good one -- I go nuts when I see amateurish fictions tendered as core premises. This is no more frequently found than in Hollywood; but do not kid yourself, it is not confined to Hollywood. The followi...

December 28, 2024

6 Myths that Bedevil Our Policies

I like to study history a bit further than most people — probably not as deep as “professional” historians, but deep enough to know that much of what drives nations and foreign policies is more mythologized history than actual truth...

December 26, 2024

Ireland is not antisemitic -- it is foolish

Contrary to what many Israelis are now saying, the Irish are NOT antisemitic, but they are acting foolishly, so I cannot blame the Israeli government for pulling its embassy out of Ireland. Israel is furious that Ireland has opened up a full embas...

October 23, 2024

Religion and Politics: Not as Separate as You Would Think

One of the follies of recent Western Civilization is its exaggerated hyper-secularization, with man being the measure of all things, and religious faith being relegated to a sideshow, important only to the individual, not the society at large. Thi...

September 1, 2024

There Will Be No ‘Day After’ in Gaza

The present estimates for the rebuilding of Gaza are roughly $50 billion, and that is probably lowballing it.  That amounts to roughly $25,000 per Gazan.  There is no way that Israel will allow that much money to go into the strip...

August 4, 2024

The Root of the Mideast’s Problems

There are events that an astute student of history will ascertain as turning points.  One such event is at the root of the debacle we see now in the Mideast. In 1939, after years of Jewish-Arab fighting, the British government all but cu...

July 6, 2024

The Immigration War No One Talks About

The present world we see today can be traced back to a war that is almost unknown in America, yet had it turned out differently — and it almost did — much of the world problems were see today might not exist. The Dutch Boers (lit: farm...

May 13, 2024

What the War is About

There are times when large wars produces miniscule results, waged only to re-arrange pieces on a chessboard (War of the Spanish Succession) -- and times when small scuffles will make or break a civilization (The battle of Thermopylae). This is wha...

May 11, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu: Not such a bad guy!

In the words of Shakespeare: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  Such is Benjamin Netanyahu. Presently, the world press is tearing this man down, but he is arguably the greatest world l...

May 10, 2024

The Importance of History

George Orwell once said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'” With the idiocies seen on college campuses all over the world, this warning is more current than ever. I h...

April 1, 2024

Only an ‘Educated’ ‘Expert’ Could Give Advice This Bad

Sometimes, you see things that one cannot believe.  It is as if recent history means nothing. The National Institute of Health is considering the effectiveness of an opioid (Tramadol) for depression.  The USA is still in the mi...

March 17, 2024

In the Israeli-Palestinian fight, a doxxing arms race

A major bit of blowback against Jewish activist groups has occurred, and it bodes ill for internet liberties.  Turnabout is not always fair play. First, it is necessary to describe the pro-Jewish, pro-Israel projects that started this da...

January 23, 2024

Chile Faces a Red/Green Alliance

Chile is now essentially a first-world country.  Say what you like about General Augusto Pinochet bringing in the “Chicago Boys,” a group of free-market economists. Good or bad, the general left Chile with a major world-class economy...

January 20, 2024

Is the West Allowed to Win?

Even since World War II, the Western nations have not been allowed to win wars. Their enemies have been allowed to win, but not the West. In every conflict, war, or struggle, political forces have been marshaled to prevent a clear Western vic...

January 7, 2024

Doxxing and Counter-Doxxing

The internet has gone insane.  Divergent opinions concerning the war on Gaza have resulted not only in outrageous opinions being vented, but in questionable actions being taken. Let’s face it: the internet has become the public...

December 30, 2023

What if There’s a Real Solution in Gaza?

“War is hell,” said General Sherman.  That is what is going on.  In the case of Gaza, it will continue to go on unless some drastic actions are taken. The Palestinians and the Israelis are diametrically opposed to e...

December 26, 2023

Is censorship, doxxing, and cancel culture the answer to culling sympathy for terrorists?

The sad fact is that America’s First Amendment was more of an ideal than a reality. Everyone aspired to it, but there were times that it was tossed aside. The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (which “remain controversial to th...

December 24, 2023

For Israel, God has a backup plan from Latin America

Sometimes the deity moves in completely unexpected ways. Right now, it looks like the whole world is ganging up on Israel, except for a few Western (American and European) holdouts, and even these are starting to waffle. But the deity had a ba...

December 20, 2023

How Properly to Punish the Irish

It seems that a new wave of breast-beating mea culpas has taken over the ruling elites of Ireland.  They are apologizing for having been the beneficiaries of — get this — white privilege. Now, don’t laugh.  I ...

October 20, 2023

A solution so simple

Anybody who has gone to a supermarket or any venue where customer service is required, will notice the lack of available help. Hence people have to wait in interminable lines, or use computerized automated checkouts—which I find difficult to us...

October 16, 2023

Don’t Send Them to the West

Right now, it is starting to look as though Israel is planning to forcibly move the Gazans.  In a less politically correct era, this would have been called population transfer.  This was how a measure of stability was brought to the Greek a...

September 25, 2023

Elon Musk is no hero

Recently, for some on the right, Elon Musk has become a hero for attacking the  Anti-Defamation League (ADL), threatening to sue for loss of advertising revenue. For many conservatives, the ADL has gotten out of line. The new head, Jonathan G...

September 1, 2023

The Deep, Enduring Roots of the Mideast Conflict

Assume, if you will, that every Anglo-Saxon on the planet, even those who are now of mixed ancestry, decided that he had a natural and God-given right to return to his ancient homeland, which the Anglo-Saxons left 1,600 years ago: Denmark (and adjace...

August 28, 2023

After Abbas, the Flood

The saying, “After me, the flood,” should have been attributed to Methuselah. In French, it is attributed to Louis XV of France, who preceded the Revolution. It is certainly applicable to Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority. Mah...

August 27, 2023

A Trump fight song

The recent surprise hit success of Oliver Anthony’s song: Rich Men North of Richmond has caused me to wonder if we should consider a similar effort. Only this time, how about a song in favor of Donald Trump? Let us take a classic tune ...

August 13, 2023

Forgetting Beauty

Fifty years ago, in 1973, a cross-cultural phenomenom occurred.  A Spanish folk group from the Basque region lost the Eurovision contest to singer from Luxembourg, who sang a lesser-remembered tune: “Tu Te Reconnaitras,” thus proving...

August 5, 2023

Still Doubting the 2020 Election

NBC is reporting — with a supposed sense of shock — the results of a Monmouth poll that nearly one-third of Americans think the 2020 presidential election was rigged. And they further reiterate that there is no evidence for fraud....

July 30, 2023

RFK Jr. is not an antisemite, just a politician

RFK Jr. is NOT an antisemite … he is a politician who didn’t exercise discretion. Rather typical. He did not blame Jews for creating COVID, he merely posited that COVID might preferentially attack Caucasians and whites. His conjecture...

May 18, 2023

Argentina Is Collapsing Again...Again!

Warning: Before reading this, one should play this tango.  It will set the mood. Argentina is on the verge of economic collapse again...for the umpteenth time. How does Argentina do it?  I mean, for quite some time, I have b...

May 17, 2023

Without a Core Ethnicity, Nations Struggle for Stability

When nations are composed of divergent ethnic groups, and such ethnic groups reach a level of demographic equivalency, instability occurs. This is a rule of civil society and does not depend on race. The classic case that comes to mind is the isla...

May 12, 2023

For the Sake of Israel, Admit that a Palestinian Identity Exists

Nothing can sink a good cause in a debate faster than a bad argument. Yet, many well meaning pro-Israel advocates continue to do so, thus giving cause to Israel’s enemies. The emphatic question that many pro-Israel advocates continue to pose...

May 9, 2023

The Watchers and the Watched

Last year, there was outrage in the Jewish community about a website, the Mapping Project, that sought to link Jewish agencies, synagogues, organizations, etc. by means of Google Maps. It was a one-stop go to website for tracking down Jews. Usin...

April 13, 2023

The American Civil War: The Celts' Last Stand

In April, 1865, General Lee’s troops surrendered their arms at Appomattox. The Civil War was almost over. It is ever fascinating, and ever more horrible to look at.  Recent historians have noted that the death toll was larger than original...

April 1, 2023

Will Economic Freedom End this July?

The scene is as old as history.  An individual fleeing persecution wants to cross a border. His or her life depends on being able to bribe a border guard, with some fungible valuable item: whether gold, cash, silver, diamonds, etc. Life depends ...

March 10, 2023

The Deadly Incompetence of our Leadership

We are at a crisis point in history the likes of which has not been seen for over century. The leadership of the West has been so incompetent that we may have passed the point of no return, In 1908, the already by-then decrepit and corrupt Austro-...

February 25, 2023

Election-Rigging from Abroad? I Am Shocked, Shocked!

Forget about the stories about the Israeli judicial reforms. Its critics are exaggerating, but now we have another exaggeration about Israel floating up to the top of the news. Some Israelis – supposedly affiliated with a firm called Team Jo...

December 31, 2022

Can Greenies Do Math?

The Cross Bronx Expressway (CBE) is arguably the most detested road in America. It was cut through thriving neighborhoods, and destroyed a large part of the Bronx -- concentrating minorities in the south of the borough in neighborhoods of grinding po...

December 29, 2022

The Real Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers

The fifties seem to have been the time that New York City peaked.  By the sixties, California was on the ascent.  And the critical blow that seems to have taken the heart out of the city was moving the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Ange...

November 22, 2022

The Anti-Semitic Religion

To most Americans, there is no truly anti-Semitic religion. But this is an oversight. Once such religion exists among us in an unexpected place, proclaimed by a social rabble rouser. Many people have falsely accused Christianity of being anti-Semi...

November 10, 2022

What on Earth Happened with Brazil's Election?

Before you read this sad story, hail back to an earlier era, before transnational social media lords suppressed the truth and helped doctor elections.  It seems that the techno-leftists might have done their dirty work...again. The media...

October 23, 2022

The Growth of Jew-Hatred in the Media

There was a time when what was acceptable in media was generally policed.  This was the time of the three major networks, who were then accused of controlling public discussion. Up until the '90s, ABC, NBC, and CBS ruled the roost, a...

October 2, 2022

Why the West?

There is a strange verse in the Bible, one that may have historical meaning for us today: Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the prov...

September 30, 2022

Saving the Nation-State

At the core of human society is the family. Extend that family to cousins, and you have the tribe or clan. Extend that and you have the nation. The Book of Genesis in Chapter 10 is often called the Table of Nations. Whether taken literally or meta...

September 27, 2022

Israel Steps up to the Plate

The present imbroglio in the Eastern steppes will not be the end of things. The embargo of gas to Europe will have consequences, but not what was anticipated. A former “side-player” is stepping up to the plate: Israel. Until a few year...

September 23, 2022

Calgary Pastor Rides Again

Things are getting interesting as regards our neighbor to the north. They suffer the same creeping tyranny that America does, but handle it a bit differently. We all remember -- or should remember -- the preacher Artur Pawlowski, of Calg...

August 14, 2022

Then Comes Thermidor

When the morality of nations becomes too inverted, they collapse and reassemble under tyranny. The historical record is clear. In 1789, the French Revolution began. On paper it looked good — the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Ci...

July 31, 2022

Historical Gene Pools Reunited

Both Scottish (Highland) and Irish legends speak of an ancient homeland of mythic lore. From thence, these Gaels claim to have wandered around the Mediterranean Sea, until they landed in Ireland, with some clans later on moving up to the Highlands of...

July 28, 2022

What Islam and the Left Agree On

What is a nation?  That is the question. In the book of Genesis — whether you take it literally or metaphorically — a nation is essentially an extended family.  Genesis Chapter Ten, often referred to as the Table of...

July 19, 2022

In the Ukraine conflict, Putin is defending no Christian values

The political right in America has gotten frustrated. In the past, not only has the American Supreme Court made atrocious culture-changing rulings — until the recent turnaround with Dobbs — but the present administration has compo...

July 16, 2022

Let's Teach Joe Biden Why the Palestinians Are Not like the Irish

President Biden's recent comment at a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel — where he compared the Palestinians' situation to the Irish under British rule — could be dismissed as a simple gaffe, except that the...

June 24, 2022

Biting the Bullet on the Palestinians

The question has not changed in decades. What to do with the Palestinians? Pro-Israel advocates seem intent on sidestepping the chief issue. Their standard answers are no longer accepted, but rather than addressing the problem, they just reformula...

May 8, 2022

Abortion is Dred Scott Redux

We may be watching the breakup of the United States if Roe v Wade is overturned as indicated by the leaked draft memo of a pending Supreme Court decision. We have to go back to 1857, to the Dred Scott decision, to see how devastating a court decis...

April 20, 2022

Spare us the Bogus Holy Land History

During this season of holiness -- the Resurrection for us Christians, Passover for Jews (and the festivals are related) -- my prayer is that God may spare us from the idiotic histories that pervade the media. The chief lie is that Islam has any cl...

April 12, 2022

Why the South Lives On

It was in this month, one hundred and fifty-seven years ago, that the Civil War ended. I have seen aficionados of both sides lament what happened, while they might argue over who was right, and what was lost. I am not an aficionado of the Lost Cau...

October 31, 2021

How Did Thomas Paine Get the Colonies to Throw Off the British Monarchy?

In college, we are taught that one of the founders of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, was a deist.  Indeed, he was.  What the professors did not tell us was that Paine's masterpiece, "Common Sense" — the...

October 19, 2021

No to a Palestinian Consulate

Why is the U.S. government insisting upon reopening a U.S. consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem? The goal is to ram a two-state solution down the throats of the Israelis. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday the Biden a...

October 17, 2021

Anti-Semitic Idiocy in Ireland

In its eight-century-long desire to be free of Britain, the Irish have made some heroic efforts, but alas -- as all peoples do -- have engaged in some incredible blunders. The increase of anti-Zionism in Ireland is one such blunder.  A recent...

December 15, 2020

What are Trump's Options?

Arguably, President Trump should be winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his amazing efforts to get large sections of the Arab world to normalize relations with Israel. But that is never going to happen. Morocco follows Bahrain, Sudan and the Unite...

July 12, 2020

Hagia Sophia: An Islamic gauntlet has been thrown down

Thanks to the machinations of Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Erodgan, Turkey will be reconverting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. There was no need for this, except to assert an Islamic supremacism to his voter base. The construction of ...

July 3, 2020

A romp through the hideaway havens of Ghislaine Maxwell from our dependable free press

The arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell (July 2) as an accessory to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein provides us an opportunity to take a quick look back at the integrity and dependability of some quite recent stories. She was reportedly hiding out at an est...

June 19, 2020

The Haredim and Anti-Semitism

America is experiencing a developing crisis concerning anti-Semitism against members of the Haredic Jewish communities. It has already become big news in the northeast. These Haredic Jews (also called Hasidim) are often called Ultra-Orthodox -- th...

June 17, 2020

Strange Bedfellows: American Blacks and Arab Slavers

Politics make strange bedfellows and none could be more oddly paired than the present coordination of Black and Arab sympathizers, as is evinced in this photo of a mural of George Floyd on the Palestinian side of Israel’s security wall. For ...

May 31, 2020

Jews against the Trump Plan for Israel

It may come as a surprise to many, but a lot of the Jewish "settlers" — I know they hate the term, but there is no better one — are opposed to Trump's peace plan, which allows for Israel to annex a large portion of the dispu...

May 24, 2020

Can Israel Profit from China's Past Errors?

There is a lot of conjecture about who will profit from this coronavirus after the virus and the panic has abated. May I suggest that one winner is presently being overlooked. Some suggest that the U.S. will win the economic war, and that China wi...

April 7, 2020

How America Should Look after Corona

Whether or not the coronavirus turns out to be as deadly as stated — and I certainly think its ravages are blown horrifically out of proportion — there will have to be a cogent plan to pick the economy up after this societal shutdown....

April 5, 2020

The Dome of the Rock and History

Right now, most of the pitched battles between Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem concerns Jews trying to pray in the vicinity of the spurious Al-Aqsa. I say spurious since any competent historian, with only the must rudimentary knowledge, could dismiss M...

March 23, 2020

Is Global Tyranny Inevitable?

Maybe it is just being home, locked down because of the highly exaggerated coronavirus panic, but I have been looking at some recent documentaries and developments, and the future does not look good for humanity. Present-day technologies will impe...

March 21, 2020

This is a cold!

A variation on the theme of the cold — a cold with an attitude.  Is Western civilization going to collapse over a cold? As Newsweek stated a few months earlier:  [A] cold can also have more severe symptoms in th...

March 3, 2020

Throwing a Block onto Erdogan's Refugee Stunt

Turkey's president will no longer stop “Syrian” refugees from fleeing into Europe. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country's borders with Europe were open Saturday, making good on a longstanding threat to...

February 20, 2020

The Opioid Crisis Has Not Peaked

The opioid crisis is far from over.  It has merely morphed, and it may be getting worse in some areas.  Without diminishing President Trump's exuberance that the death rate has peaked, caution is more in order. Ahead of a...

February 17, 2020

What Really Makes Democrats and Republicans Different

The Republicans have their flaws, but a lack of unity is not one of them.  The one thing that distinguishes Republicans from Democrats is a national vision.  The Democratic Party, since its inception, has never had a national visi...

February 15, 2020

Three nations going insane

A collection of three samples of outright stupidities from the news. CHINA SACKS PARTY CHIEFS China has sacked the top political leaders of virus-stricken Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, the highest-profile figures to be removed so far ...

January 26, 2020

A Note on Coronavirus: Don't Panic

I am not suggesting that we not remain alert, nor am I suggesting that we cast caution to the winds, but this present coronavirus will probably be nowhere near as deadly as many Chicken Littles are predicting. Why? Because, quite often, it is n...

December 25, 2019

The political meaning of Christmas

Most of us, myself included, do not often reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. Christ came to earth to save flawed human beings. We tend to think of this on a personal level, but it applies to every facet of history. Some of the greatest me...

December 22, 2019

Liberals' amazing logic on abortion

  I want you to look at this graph.  It comes from the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion. Now, the Guttmacher Institute says that "lack of access to health insurance and health care plays a role, as do r...

October 29, 2019

Israel’s Political Stalemate

It looks like Israel will be heading to a third election. It seems both sides, Netanyahu’s right and Gantz’s left-center cannot get the 61 votes needed to get a majority in the Knesset. There is one villain in this, and one victor. The...

October 26, 2019

Is the US Right to Ignore Spain vs. Catalonia?

The news about Catalonia has finally started to bubble to the surface of the American press, which seems more concerned about the impeachment circus.  Europe is paying critical attention to what is going on. I suggest that in this case, ...

September 19, 2019

Why Doesn't Israel Just Reconquer Gaza?

Why doesn't Israel just go in and conquer Gaza?  To those who support Israel, such a conquest might sound simple and tidy.  Go in and take out the Hamas leadership, and the problem will be solved. Only it won't be solve...

July 31, 2019

An Alternate Explanation for Europe's Heat Wave

The news is chiming in how Europe’s present heat wave is a result of man-made climate change. This is particularly true in Europe, where it is cited on France 24 netcasts. (France 24 -- English Go to 1:05) Climate scientists warn this coul...

July 21, 2019

Let the Patient Beware

About 15 years ago,  I convinced one of my doctors to prescribe some generic Wellbutrin (bupropion XL ) for me. The product had been advertised as a game changer for depression. My doctor, at that time, was reluctant at first; but he eventually ...

June 17, 2019

The Unique and Tragic Case of Argentina

As an American, I find myself continually fascinated by Argentina.  As Simon Kuznets, the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics, once said, "[t]here are four kinds of countries in the world: developed countries, undeveloped count...

May 29, 2019

The Deal: Everything but What Will Work

I want to say it before it is released and becomes obvious: The upcoming peace plan will probably fail. Do not get me wrong. I hope that my assessment is incorrect, but I seriously doubt it will be. One problem is that while the expected peace pla...

April 1, 2019

Brooklyn the latest battlefield between supporters of Palestinians and Israelis

A brouhaha is developing in Brooklyn.  The issue of Palestinians has arisen.  It seems a Jewish city councilman, named Kamal Yeger, has said, on Twitter last Wednesday March 27, that Palestine does not exist. P...

March 31, 2019

An Apology for Mexico?

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (referred to as AMLO) has asked Spain to apologize for past colonial crimes. Spain has refused to do so. Many view this as a supreme virtue signaling, in which Spain refused to indulg...

March 30, 2019

Why the American Revolution Worked and the French Revolution Didn't

I consider myself an amateur historian, though some of my readers might place more emphasis on the amateur than historian.  One thing that has puzzled me is why different results sprang from the American and French Revolutions.  I...

March 10, 2019

PayPal and Palestinian Bitcoin

For a few years now, there has been an on-and-off controversy about PayPal's refusal to agree on operations in the Palestinian areas.  There were politely worded reasons tendered as to why this was not feasible, but anyone with half a b...

February 26, 2019

Latins, Israel, and Hezb'allah

A conservative website, TruNews, had a commentator ridicule Mike Pompeo for claiming the Hezeb’allah was in Venezuela. So Mike Pompeo, the other day -- I don’t know if you guys caught this. I had heard it, but it registered today -- ...

January 6, 2019

The Importance of Getting History Right

There is a famous quote from George Orwell's 1984: Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. The vastness of that insight cannot be overstated.  As an amateur historian, I cringe at...

December 24, 2018

Is Christmas the Signature Holiday of Christianity?

Let me start be wishing all of you a Merry Christmas, even those few of you who do not celebrate it -- and I am referring to those Christians who consider Christmas to be unbiblical in origin. Supposedly, Christmas goes back to the Roman festival ...

September 27, 2018

Does Chile Really Love the Palestinian Cause?

A recent video (May 15, 2018) about Chile has surfaced on YouTube, by Al Jazeera, concerning the welcome Chile gives Palestinians immigrants.  Supposedly, Chile takes in Palestinians with open arms and assimilates them well. The...

September 10, 2018

Why Was Disco Ever Popular? Blame Fake News.

While Donald Trump has become famous for railing on about "Fake News," the media have become quick to defend their integrity.  However, the depth of the media's lies is apparent and may be deeper than most imagine. Let'...

September 8, 2018

Media and the Rise of Homosexuality

India has just legalized gay sex. This is roughly one-sixth of the world's population. A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable. What happened? An admission about homosexual influences, by a famous documentary, does much to explain socie...

September 3, 2018

Will Getting Rid of UNRWA Fix the Palestinian Problem?

President Trump seems determined to shut down UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), the organization singularly preoccupied with caring for the Arab refugees, and their descendants, of the 1947-49 war between Jewish and Arab forces for ...

July 31, 2018

The Return of the Valkyrie

Ahed Tamimi was finally released after spending eight months in an Israeli prison for slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier.  The video of the incident became world-famous, and she became even more of a media star than she already wa...

July 11, 2018

Why There Will Be No Solution in the Mideast

The West, and the world, fools itself that there can be peace in the Mideast.  There cannot.  The chief problem is that we apply Western paradigms to two peoples who are decidedly non-Western. First, let me state that a large p...

March 31, 2018

The Resurrection of Jesus: An Inconvenient Fact

This Sunday, Christians around the world will celebrate Easter.  Some prefer to call it Resurrection Day.  Now most Christians – whether nominal or serious – just accept the holiday without much thought. But if they wo...

February 25, 2018

Kim Dotcom: The Copyright Case that Should End but Won't

It has been six years since the compound of Kim Dotcom (né Kim Schmitz), a Finnish-German dual national, was raided, north of Auckland, New Zealand.  The official reason given was that his company, Megaupload, was facilitating crimin...

February 18, 2018

An 18th-Century Hero versus the Deep State

I have always prided myself on being an amateur historian, knowing far more than most people.  So you can imagine my surprise when I found out, about ten years ago, that I knew nothing about one of the most important battles in world histor...

February 15, 2018

American Jews and Inconsistency on Immigration

This is an observation more than a critique, but it cannot help but be addressed.  The internet is making certain inconsistencies about Jewish-American politicians obvious.  It is something I have known about for decades but have ...

January 19, 2018

Facebook's Expanding Insanity

I never liked Facebook that much.  I found it a rather frustratingly difficult, counter-intuitive platform – and mind you, I am someone who knows some computer coding and used to write WordPress themes for a hobby.  I am used to techn...

December 28, 2017

Befuddlement in Catalonia

I am neither in favor of nor against Catalonia's independence.  The recent turn of elections, where the independentistas won a majority of seats in the parliament, has proven nothing.  What does remain is an absolute amazement...

December 10, 2017

After the Victory

Israel has won a major victory with Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. I am happy for Israel, though some are still upset that Trump did not make a stronger declaration declaring that Jerusalem was indivisible. [I...

December 3, 2017

It's Worse Out There for Israel Than You Think

A few decades ago, I remember a TV preacher who pointed out that once anyone left the United States, anti-Israel sentiment was rife. We in the United States had little idea of what was out there. He was right. The full extent of this insulation is no...

November 21, 2017

Stalling as Usual: Israel and the Palestinians

As usual for American presidents, Trump seems to be on the verge of recognizing a Palestinian state. As is also usual, the Israeli Right is up in arms against it. US President Donald Trump, who until now has not spoken of the two-state solution,...

November 18, 2017

The Great Folly of World War I

World War I was the greatest folly by far to befall Western civilization.  The second greatest folly was America entering the catastrophe.  The totalitarian rebounds that followed were consequences that could have been avoided. I am not ...

November 17, 2017

You decide the penalty

The accused, one Sean Thornton, a man with a record of violent behavior, responsible for the death of a least one man, did forcibly drag an unwilling woman, one Mary Kate Danaher, back into his house, wherein he forcibly kissed her and engaged i...

October 30, 2017

Why We Should Do Nothing About Catalonia

Putting aside all prejudice, and preconceptions, what is happening in Catalonia is petulance by two rather immature groups of people. I fear only tragedy may come of it. In a perfect world, the Catalans might deserve a country. Historically, they ...

October 16, 2017

Ireland's Singular Error

Apple Company will soon be building a $1 Billion data center in the West of Ireland, the supposedly most Gaelic part of that country. Ireland's High Court on Thursday ruled that a 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center planned by Apple in...

October 9, 2017

Catalonia and the Guns of October

Everybody in Europe is talking about Catalonia, chiefly because everyone is staring into the abyss of what could happen in Europe if things go wrong – copycat secessionism.  It looks as though things may go wrong.  There is a small ch...

October 7, 2017

Timeless Art

When I was in my very early teens, I remember watching All in the Family.  I thought it was the funniest show on TV at that time.  I watched reruns of it for a while, but by the end of the 1970s, I could not stand it.  Political humor ...

October 5, 2017

The Basque Solution

Like vultures, the worldwide press is starting to celebrate the anticipated disintegration of Spain. The Catalans are determined to go.  Considering that Catalonia is the richest province in Spain (by absolute numbers), Spain would suffer an ...

October 4, 2017

Confusing the Evolution Debate

Of all the Western nations, Americans are the least likely to believe in evolution, according to a recent survey. Still, some applauded when even more recent statistics apparently showed that support for creationism had dropped below 40% in America. ...

October 2, 2017

What Catalonia Tells Us

The news from Catalonia -- at the time of this writing, Sunday night in America -- is not good. There has been violent confrontation over the independence referendum. Hundreds injured in Catalonia as Spanish police crack down on referendum vote....

October 1, 2017

The Mac Mini as Portent

The Mac Mini was arguably the world's first mass popular small form factor computer.  It came out in 2005 and quickly captured a following among Apple fanboys (and girls).  It was an elegant desktop that reached its zenith in the 2012 m...

September 30, 2017

Just One Crisis Away from Cashless

Puerto Ricans presently without cash are in severe straits now that the electronic grid is down. They do not have the cash to buy supplies; and, since the electronic grid is down due to the recent hurricanes, they cannot use electronic options. Howev...

September 26, 2017

What Happened to Our Music?

I am not a musician; but about a quarter century ago in the 1990s, I was in a restaurant with a musician who gave me a dire observation. He told me that a professor had mentioned to him that a vital, vibrant culture should produce a new form of music...

September 14, 2017

What Apple Did Not Release

I am not going to go over the new hardware being brought out by Apple.  Fanboys are already cooing over the new iPhones.  But something – something that flew under the radar to all but techies – is about to substantially alter t...

September 13, 2017

Luther's Very Mixed Legacy

Next month, October 31st, will be the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. Whether one thinks Luther was right or wrong, this was one of the most important events in hist...

September 12, 2017

The Basque Have Arrived

Catalonia wants to hold a referendum this October concerning its desire for independence from Spain. The Spanish courts are using every judicial trick in the book to suppress the vote. Catalonia officially sets independence vote for October 1 ...

September 11, 2017

Birth Control and Homosexuality: Unintended Consequences

In the 1980s, I had a boss who had gotten a masters degree in psychology from New York University. He was a brilliant man; could have been a doctor. He told me a story that explains much of what we see in society today. It seems that while doing ...

September 9, 2017

Fake News and the Death of Christianity

Mark Twain, quoting Disraeli, once said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” So it has been with the recent story that White Christians are a minority, To paraphrase Twain again, the reports of Christianity...

September 4, 2017

Texting, Driving, and Technical Laziness

Two stories have recently come to my attention. Both supposedly involve texting and driving. One was in Guam, the other in Ohio. The real story is that there is a simple technical fix to this problem, and no one is seriously discussing the obvious. ...

August 12, 2017

Draining the Pontine Marshes

The pope's confidant, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, recently issued a scathing critique of American Catholics who support Donald Trump. Both Evangelical and Catholic Integralists [in the U.S.] condemn traditional ecumenism and yet promote an ecumenis...

August 7, 2017

The Dog Days Tell Us Something

The ancient Romans considered the hottest days of summer to be when the dog star Sirius appeared in the sky. Today, that would be primarily in August. This strikes us in the Western Hemisphere as very odd, since August is the month that our summer st...

July 22, 2017

Islam's Bizarre Philosophical Problem

When attacking an epistemological structure, it is a often a waste of time to attack the consequences of a belief system when one can cut it down at the root. Islam has such a bizarre problem. And Muslims avoid it, for fear it would cause the whole r...

July 20, 2017

Europe Ever Downward: Now the Bavarians Want Out

Bavarians are considering leaving Germany.  What is it with the European nations that their most productive citizens want to leave? [A] new survey looks to bolster the Bavarian Party's hopes for a true Free State of Bavaria (the state...

July 18, 2017

The Al-Aqsa Fraud

Martin Luther, in his criticism of Catholic pilgrimages, once said, “There are 12 apostles, and 18 of them are buried in Spain.” He probably would not be pleased that Protestants have resumed journeying on the Camino (Road) to Santiago (S...

July 16, 2017

In Spain, Catalonian Defiance Challenges Europe

In Spain, Catalonia is now in open rebellion against Madrid. While most Americans are unaware of what is going on, this crisis has a lot to tell us about Europe, and about ourselves. [At] the National Theatre in Barcelona ... on July 4th, the pr...

July 4, 2017

China's Hidden Debt Bubble

Most people think the United States is the nation most heavily in debt. But if one looks at per capita values, the USA is far from the worst. The worst now looks like it may be China. According to the World Atlas, the United States does not even m...

July 2, 2017

A Bridge to Nowhere in Israel

The Mideast is full of stupid ideas, each one more ridiculous than the previous.  The newest confabulation comes this time from Israel.  Israel is seriously considering building an artificial island off Gaza, which it can police, in order t...

June 27, 2017

Germany and Islam

Germany has a bizarre historical connection with Islam that lies beneath much of the present day crisis in Europe. One could argue that these connections are just the product of historical coincidences, but with Germany the coincidences seem to add u...

June 11, 2017

The Ethnic Instability of Iran

Avoiding all political correctness, there are some ancestral reasons that Iran should have been easy to deal with.  However, the last administration coddled the mullahs in Iran and let opportunity fly away.  It may be too late to do anythin...

June 10, 2017

South America's Southern Cone

As Europe succumbs to the opening waves of Islamic settler colonialism, the youth of Europe should consider their options. I am not saying that European youth should abandon their continent just yet, but if things get worse, they should have an escap...

June 8, 2017

Brazil Is Undergoing a Quiet Revolution, Changing Its Politics and Culture in a Conservative Direction

Brazil is a functioning democracy, albeit not functioning that well. Brazil's economy is still a horrific mess; and that is all we hear. But what mainstream media often ignores is a massive sea change in Brazil – and in Latin America - whic...

June 7, 2017

Portugal and Islam

In a videotape broadcast on American TV after 9-11, Osama bin Laden once referred to the tragedy of Andalusia, considered the greatest disaster in Muslim history before the re-birth of Israel. The subtitles conveniently forgot to note that Andalusia ...

June 5, 2017

Who Rules?

The recent rise in gay rights, and the rights of LBGT-LMNOP communities, evinces something more disturbing than a sexual agenda.  We are forced to ask: who is in charge of the planet? In 2008, Obama proudly proclaimed that he understood marri...

June 4, 2017

Waiting for Jobs: Can Apple Regain Its PC Edge?

Starting this Monday, Apple Computer's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC 2017) is slated to start in San Jose, Calif. The conference is held annually to discuss Apple's new technologies, and software creators are encouraged to interface ...

May 29, 2017

No-Money-Down Niche Sites

In the 1980s and 1990s, a business phenomenon arose called "no money down real estate."  Its superstar was Carleton Sheets.  Remember him?  He was on late-night TV selling get-rich-quick schemes with techniques on how to buy ...

May 22, 2017

PayPal, the Palestinians, and Problems

There is a campaign, which ironically started in the United States, but which has now spread all over the world, to have PayPal, the internet payment processing company, extend its services to Palestine. No matter what happens, this proposal is fraug...

May 12, 2017

Palestinians Running the Show...in Chile?

Chile is becoming instructive on what happens when a well coordinated minority can turn a decent republic to its own ends.  That minority is the Palestinian community in Chile, and it has completely distorted Chile's foreign policy. In ...

May 9, 2017

Kosher and Common Sense

I am not a Jew, so therefore I do not feel any moral necessity to keep kosher, but neither do I feel a necessity to forbid it. However, the issue of kosher slaughter -- the ritual killing of animals to make the meat kosher -- has come up, once again,...

April 12, 2017

It's Spring -- Time for Secession

As I have noted so many times, I am not the first American to be fascinated by Spain. And this spring is not disappointing. While the sounds of the Virgen de la Macarena may have died down a bit -- Catalonia tried to ban bullfighting -- the trumpet h...

March 21, 2017

The Real Basis of Israeli Nationhood

The Arab League, and the Palestinian Authority are seeking an apology from Britain on the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. They declare the Declaration illegal, and want Britain to admit as much. For their part, Jewish organizations ...

March 15, 2017

Transgenderism and Cancer

Pharmaceutical companies have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to test new drugs. Yet, we in America are permitting confused youth to be used as guinea pigs in medical procedures that mutilate the anatomy and flood the body with potentia...

January 18, 2017

Copyright Vultures Are At It Again!

The Copyright Industry, especially the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have suppressed every form of innovation, and technology to protect their questionable rights.  In the 80s,...

January 7, 2017

Bring Down the Facade

Most of the Israeli Right is refusing to address the chief issue in its death struggle with "Palestine." Israel trots out lawyers, historians, theoreticians, and academics to defend its control of Judea and Samaria; but that is not the cent...

January 1, 2017

Why Quebec No Longer Is Separatist

As Europe reignites with separatism, as the British exit the EU, Quebec will, in a typical example of Gallic contrarianism, do the opposite, and probably finally settle down into accepting the Canadian federation. As an American, in my youth, I wa...

December 31, 2016

A Separate Catalonia?

I am not Spanish, but I am following in the path of other Americans -- such as Washington Irving, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles -- who find Spain absolutely fascinating. Recently, Spain has revved up its always impressive offerings of Hispanic c...

December 24, 2016

Obama’s UN betrayal of Israel is only the tip of the iceberg

President Obama's been exercising a scorched earth policy as he retreats to the public sector.  Not just the U.N. vote, but he also banned oil exploration in the Atlantic and Alaskan waters. U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned...

December 4, 2016

2017: Cycles and Food for Thought

I am not one given to prognostication; I have seen too many predictions fall flat on their face. But next year, 2017, will be the anniversary of a number of major historical events concerning religion and the Mideast. That these would all converge on...

December 2, 2016

An Opportunity, Not a Crisis for Israel in French Move to Encourage Boycott

Israel is upset that France will be requiring goods and produce made by Israelis in the Judean and Samarian [West Bank] areas to be labeled as such, not as products of Israel. The Israeli government is furious, and considers the requirement to be a p...

November 13, 2016

President Trump's Realpolitik Middle East Opportunity

If there is one thing that President-elect Trump may do right, it is apply some Realpolitik to the Mideast. It may be the only possible way to deal with the matter. For far too long, the world has tried to solve the Mideast morass from a position ...

October 16, 2016

The Perils of War by Proxy

If there is one common trait among great powers, it is that they wage war by proxy.  If there is one common yet unlearned lesson from this practice, it is that such wars almost inevitably backfire.  The record of history is clear: the West,...

September 13, 2016

The Computer Industry Matures

Writing this piece on a 2011 Model desktop. Guess it is time to upgrade; but I am in a quandary. In the past five years, the technology industry has changed; but not so much in terms of innovation, but rather ossification. In 2012, I bought my des...

September 9, 2016

Woodrow Wilson and Hillary Clinton: When a President Keeps an Infirmity Hidden from the Public

Joseph Patrick Tumulty is a name that every American should know; and yet so few do. He may have helped run the country for the last two years of Woodrow Wilson's Administration. This is what a Hillary Clinton presidency portends. Joseph Tumul...

August 4, 2016

Latin America: Becoming Anti-Israel Right under Our Noses

During the past 15 years, both Israel and the United States have allowed Iran and radical Islam to infiltrate Latin America, particularly South America, while doing almost nothing to arrest it.  A rising disaster, which may soon be upon us, is a...

August 1, 2016

Fakestinians, Khazars, and Linguistic Idiocy

George Orwell rightly diagnosed that the technique of modern totalitarians is to corrupt language.  If this were solely the technique of the left, then it would be bad enough.  Unfortunately, the right has picked it up as well.  Now co...

August 1, 2016

Palestinians and Venezuela: Perfect together

Venezuela, the home of the Bolivarian Revolution, friend of Hezb’allah, and mortal fierce enemy of Israel, has recently upped the ante, and most of our Western media has ignored it. In a show of supreme solidarity, Venezuela has removed any ...

July 30, 2016

The Question of Poland and Reparations for WWII

Poland's Supreme Court recently refused to rewrite its current laws to make it easy for Holocaust victims and their descendants to make claims for lost property.  Naturally, Jewish groups are furious – but is this a wise fight? Let...

July 12, 2016

The Latinization of the West

The term seems absurd. Weren't the Latins a Western people? Yes, at one time they were. Two millennia later their culture is awash around the globe, primarily as an example of poor governance, corruption, and quasi-military rule. America and Euro...

June 4, 2016

Europe and the Phoenician Virus

At its core, Europe has abandoned its Christian heritage in favor of the Canaanite side of the family tree.  One is amazed, when one studies history, how much of human conflict originates in a family or clan feuds. The present Mideast crises ...

May 30, 2016

BDS and Free Speech

The Netherlands has just declared the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel to be free speech. Israel is furious; but for classic conservatives, there is no easy answer to this issue. “Statements or meetings conc...

May 22, 2016

Homage to FC Barcelona

The fires of separatism in Spain are reaching even more insane heights. The Spanish government has just tried to ban the 'Estelada' -- the separatist national flag of Catalonia -- from the next soccer Copa del Rey (King's Cup) match....

April 21, 2016

Call it Fascism

The difference between "leftist" and "rightist" tyranny is that the tyrants on the "right" have enough sense not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. They understand that pure socialism does not work; and so they ...

March 31, 2016

Chile’s Arabs and the Erasure Of History

One of my favorite pastimes is taking a look at South America; I am fascinated by South America's premier ethnic group: the Arabs! Yes, how many Americans know that Arabs are a major force in our southern neighbor. The Arabs are elites in Sout...

March 24, 2016

The Bankers Strike Back

Central Banks have been the bane of conspiracy theorists for centuries, with people of all political stripes taking one side or the other. One can argue whether central banks are good or bad? Have they stabilized economies or manipulated nations? Hav...

February 13, 2016

Why Bitcoin will not Save Us

Bitcoin, and the new and upcoming Z-cash, will not solve the economic problems of the world. In fact, embedded within their structures are many, if not more, of the problems they claim to solve. One should not misunderstand me. I am aware of ...

February 8, 2016

Here Comes the ‘Cashless Society’

A recent look at some headlines, all less than two months old, gives us a scary view as to what is coming: Bring On the Cashless Future - Bloomberg China buyers go virtually cashless  - The Star Norway's Biggest Bank Calls For Coun...

January 20, 2016

The End of Saudi Arabia?

A more detestable regime than Saudi Arabia could not be found.  Arguably the most repressive regime on earth.  An absolute monarchy.  A Wahhabist theocratic nightmare that arms ISIS.  Only North Korea may be worse, and North Korea...

January 17, 2016

The Recapitulation: Argentine Peronism Goes Global

Argentina made one major mistake in its history: relying on exports. It was an easy mistake for Argentines to make – vast natural resources and a population too small to absorb the produce.  Its beef exports regularly surpassed the USA,...

December 4, 2015

Spain Breaking Up Again?

Spain is once again about to fall apart. This time it may have a real problem in Catalonia, the prosperous industrial province on its northeast Mediterranean coast. In November 2014, 80% of Catalonians polled favored independence in a non-binding ...

November 28, 2015

The End of Academic Elites

The internet has changed everything, so much so that even I, a man who has been online for 19 years, am constantly amazed at the pace of accelerated change. The printing press changed the world in a few decades in the 16th century. The internet ...

October 15, 2015

Before all Hell Breaks Loose

The present "third intifada" is on. I stand horrified at the loss of all lives. Of the loss innocent Jewish life, but also ironically at the loss Arab youth inspired to fight for a lie. The Arab claim to the Southern Mosque -- I refuse to c...

October 8, 2015

Are Mideast Muslims Dying for a Myth?

Given the way the Mideast is headed, things are so unpredictable that this present Jerusalem flare-up could run the gamut from burning itself out in a few days to inciting a war against Israel, eventually bringing in Iran, the Muslim world, and then ...

September 12, 2015

Syria's Civil War in Perspective

The Syrian Civil War has been going on for four years now. It is being waged quite barbarously However, before the world reacts, we should put everything in perspective. While terrible, Syria's war is rather mild by the standards of historical ci...

September 7, 2015

Hooray for Pallywood!

About 15 years ago, I stopped watching mainstream news when I found out how vastly different what the media reported was from reality.  Recently,  a video surfaced concerning a weekly protest in Nabi Selah, a town where the "Palestinia...

August 23, 2015

Demography Versus Democracy: A Time for Israel to Act?

Israel is losing the world's sympathy because it has allowed a growing Arab demographic time bomb to fester. This has led to charges that millions of Arabs are disenfranchised, a practice which runs counter to the accepted Western paradigm of gov...

August 13, 2015

Not Again! Will Argentina Elect another Peronist?

The economic Nobelist Simon Kuznets is credited with having said: [T]here are four kinds of countries: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina - Slate Yes, as anyone who has studied history over the last century ...

July 28, 2015

Iran Deal and the Hudaybiyyah Precedent

What President Obama gave us is not a peace, but a treacherous hudna, a deceitful truce.  It is hard to believe that no one in the State Department knew this; and even harder to believe that Obama himself, who was educated in a Muslim school in ...

July 18, 2015

China's Uyghur Problem

China has a problem with its Western Xingjiang province. The population is about 60% Muslim, has a history of on-and-off independence,  speaks a Turkic language unrelated to Chinese, and is separatist. They are violently resisting China's ce...

July 5, 2015

Whom The Gods Would Destroy: How Madness Rules Our Age

Never has the world run so headlong mad into inconceivable folly as the recent embrace of gay marriage. Western democracies, even tyrannies such as Cuba, have started to embrace the madness. Now, I have not been, nor am I now, an advocate for the ...

July 3, 2015

The Uniqueness of the American Revolution

The American Revolution was absolutely unique.  I can find no other counterpart to compete with it. Much of modern history is that of peoples seeking to replicate the success of the American Revolution, and failing, usually miserably. Before,...

June 28, 2015

The Whiskey Talking

A new brouhaha is surfacing that can only be described as surreal. An Irish dance company in Israel will be initiating Israel's first national Feis (a Celtic folk dance celebration). Now, by any stretch of the imagination, 'tis a gloriou...

June 27, 2015

A Denouement For Woody Allen

Woody Allen has been making movies for over fifty years, now. When younger, I loved his films, and fancied them as stellar intellectual explorations of life's great questions. Over time, I noticed that he never drifted far from the script of olde...

May 29, 2015

Brazil Runs into the Reality of Race

When I think of Brazil, what comes to mind initially is Aquarelo Do Brazil [Water Color of Brazil], an absolutely glorious samba written by Ary Barroso in 1939, which went international when Walt Disney made a breathtaking cartoon in 1942 using the s...

May 24, 2015

Why Official Christianity Is Dying

I write as someone who, during his lifetime, has attended Catholic, Baptist, Independent Bible, Pentecostal, Calvary Chapel, Seventh Day Adventist, Episcopal, and Lutheran services. So I am familiar with what all of them teach -- and I am familiar wi...

May 23, 2015

Soccer of the Absurd

Right now, Israel, the Palestinians, and the FIFA [Fédération Internationale de Football Association], the World Soccer Authority, are engaged in a struggle of the absurd. The Palestinians claim that Israel has been interfering with the...

May 22, 2015

A Counter Proposal For European Immigration

Europe is now being flooded with immigrants, chiefly from Africa or the Arab world, those least likely to assimilate well. As Europe confronts a rapidly escalating migration crisis driven by war, persecution and poverty in an arc of strife from ...

May 19, 2015

Palestinians, Israelis, the Nakba and Realpolitik

This past Friday was the 15th of May, the day that the Arab world celebrates as Nakba day. The day of the "catastrophe," which is what the Arabic word means; the founding of Israel. Whether one accepts the validity of the Arab or Israeli na...

May 12, 2015

The Real Problem in Europe

A rather formidable writer here at AT has written a synopsis on Hibernian anti-Semitism in Ireland, but I fear that he has misidentified the problem.  By defining the problem in particularistic Irish idiosyncrasies, the author woefully understat...

May 2, 2015

Two Underrated Peoples

In looking over the history of the past 500 years, four nations stand out for having completely and massively altered world civilization in a way that no others have, before or after: England, Spain, France, and Portugal.     No oth...

April 19, 2015

Mac as a Metaphor

I am a PC man, long since disabused of any preference for Apple computers. My brother had an Apple IIe in the 80s, and I worked on it.  I worked on spreadsheets on a MacIntosh in 1990, and loved Apple computers at the time. I fancied they were s...

April 18, 2015

Palestinians and the Art of the Possible

Bismarck once said, "Politics is the art of the possible." So it is with the Mideast, as much as it was in the Europe of Bismarck. The pro-Western, and pro-Zionist side is failing to take this insight to heart, preferring legal theory ...

March 28, 2015

Chile -- A Rising Star

When I first started to seriously study South America -- from a mix of curiosity and an attempt to relearn the high school Spanish that I had forgotten lo those many decades ago -- I fixed on Argentina as the one South American country with the ...

March 25, 2015

Time for the Obamadorian Reaction

Unlike many, I do not think President Obama is a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Nor do I think he has sympathies for radical Islam. His gay friendly endeavors run counter to sharia. Rather, I think President Obama is a benighted le...

February 21, 2015

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

As an amateur historian, familiar with the histories of many nations, I am always asking myself why nations succeed and fail. Many answers have been suggested. Most of them proved to be nonsense. However, I have found two principles that are iron-cla...

February 15, 2015

The Government They Deserve

Though I am American, I have found myself constantly fascinated by the Republic of Argentina. If ever there was a country that should have rivaled or even surpassed us Americans, it should have been Argentina. Yet, Argentina fails, and fails so massi...

December 26, 2014

Let's Be Honest about the Mideast

A doctor's job is to properly diagnoses the problem, be honest about it, and then apply the proper treatment.  This is true of medicine, of engineering, etc.  Yet honesty has fled the debate concerning the Mideast. The problem in the...

December 3, 2014

A War over Words

A sort of totalitarian vocabulary police preclude rational discussion on the Mideast. One expects such Orwellian vocabulary police to prowl the salons of the Left, but sadly the Right has now adopted the practice. Of course, the greatest newspeak ...

November 29, 2014

Why Did It Take So Long?

Recently Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made this statement: There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan[.] Personally, I have no problems with that ...

October 12, 2014

A Major Root of the Problem

Supporters of Israel have failed to address one matter that won't go away by itself: the exiled Palestinians.  It is not enough to declare they are no longer refugees, as if that would make them disappear.  Nor will calling them Fakesti...

September 28, 2014

The Lie That Will Start a World War

The Muslim claim on the Temple Mount is the biggest fraud in history.  No one dares say it, but unless someone does, another world war will erupt. Right now, even as we speak, frum (pious) Jews are trying to gain access to pray on the Temple ...

September 26, 2014

Equal, Not Identical

It may be necessary for those who think clearly to be precise in their definitions, particularly when comes to the politically contentious definition of equality.  May I suggest that what is being pushed is not equality, but identicality? Let...

September 16, 2014

Israel, Palestinians and the Nation State

Israel is now being forced to confront what it means be a nation-state.   The evident fact that Israel will never withdraw from the territories is forcing Israel to confront the awful question that it has dodged for far too long since 1967....

August 24, 2014

Israel's Initial Premises

What we are watching in the Mideast is a civilizational war being played out in a local arena.  The Israelis and the Arabs operate from completely different worldviews and premises.  If one accepts either side, then one usually accepts the ...

August 17, 2014

It's Back to Square One

Like it or not, Israel has taken a public relations beating during this last military operation against Gaza. The Palestinian side of the "narrative" has come to the fore, and the only thing that saved Israel from a rout in the media was th...

August 12, 2014

When Muslims Fall Out

The U.S. is now bombing ISIS positions in Iraq.  Before we get heavily involved in a losing battle – no matter who wins, we lose – the U.S. should consider its options wisely.  We should not let emotional pleas overrule reason. ...

August 9, 2014

The Spin of Things to Come

Five Latin American nations pulled their ambassadors from Israel over the recent Gaza war. Fear not for Latin America. Rather, fear is what is coming to the United States. El Salvador recalled its Israeli ambassador from Tel Aviv on Wednesday to...

July 12, 2014

Soccer: War by Other Means

Like most Americans, I am not a fan of soccer.  Were I so, I would call it by its universal name, "football," which transcends languages. The Spanish call if fútbol  and the Germans call it Fußball.  It has becom...

June 16, 2014

Let Them Kill Each Other

I know, I know, the recent ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) gains have everyone scared.  No doubt, the Islamophilic administration will want to step in, and save Islam from itself once again.  Let me advocate a course of action that ...

June 14, 2014

Lebanon is a Fiction

Lebanon, the dream of Mideast Christians is over.  It has ceased to exist as a functional nation state.  Islam destroyed it. Right now, Lebanon can be divided into four regions.  The center is Christian.  The North is Sunni....

May 31, 2014

The Greatest Murder Machine in History

When one thinks of mass murder, Hitler comes to mind. If not Hitler, then Tojo, Stalin, or Mao. Credit is given to the 20th-century totalitarians as the worst species of tyranny to have ever arisen. However, the alarming truth is that Islam has kille...

May 24, 2014

Now That the Two-State Solution Is Dead

Anyone with half a brain knew that there would be no two-state deal.  The ugly truth is that only viable solution is moving the Arabs in Judea and Samaria out.  Ugly?  Yes, but all other options are primed to fail. The lion's sh...

March 6, 2014

1914 -- The West Starts Dying

Most competent historians can trace the decline of the West to World War I, which started 100 years ago.  The slaughter on the fields of Flanders, the subsequent influenza epidemic, the dissolution of centuries-old European monarchies and empire...

January 10, 2014

Losing Latin America to the Palestinian Cause

On Tuesday, January 7, 2014, the Washington Times reported that a scandal has arisen in Chile.  It seems that the Palestino Soccer Team has now decided to wear jerseys which show a map of Palestine that erases Israel from the map. [The Pales...

December 18, 2013

A Bi-national Nightmare

There will be no peace as Kerry promised. The minimum any Palestine leader could accept is far more than Israeli could safely give; and the maximum that Israel could give is far less than any Palestinian leader could accept. However, a greater threat...

December 16, 2013

The Land is not the Issue

Kerry is in the Mideast trying to impose a solution. Pro-Zionists sites are producing maps and trying to dissuade the powers that be from dividing the land, as if that were a real possibility. But the issue is not the land, but the Arabs on it. Call...

December 7, 2013

Asking the Right Question

The neverending Mideast Crisis is like a sick patient who refuses to get better. Eventually a hundred doctors are called in to give their opinion. While they all agree on the symptoms, none can agree on the cure. The problem is that no one asks the r...

November 15, 2013

There Will Be War

What was going through the President's head when he eased up on sanctions on Iran?  The only reason Iran was willing to talk was because Iran was breaking.  He should have held his ground. Anyone who saw Netanyahu the other day de...

November 10, 2013

Who Invented Zionism?

To refute the Arab lie that Israel is somehow a conspiracy of Jews who took over the Western world and its policies for their own service, it is good from time to time to remember that it was Christians, across all spectrums of Christianity, who enco...

November 6, 2013

Lame Duck Policies and the Mideast

What is coming out of the White House concerning Mideast Policy is beyond belief. We are watching a lame duck presidency sliding into the maliciously irrational.He has reduced funding to Egypt. For what? For getting rid of a Muslim Brother...

October 9, 2013

No Territorial Concessions

The fact that so many still entertain that Israel should give up her inheritance is bad enough, but many think that Israel should divide Jerusalem. Ponder that for a moment! Would you ask the French to divide Paris? Would you ask the Italians to div...

September 18, 2013

The Israeli Right Was Wrong

I am not an admirer of Rabbi Kahane, but he was correct about one thing: the Palestinians must go. Kahane was brutal in his delivery.  He would walk up to Arabs and called them "dogs" (see 7:40), one of the worst insults possible to Muslims, w...

September 14, 2013

Copyright Strangulation

Copyright law in America gives individuals, and corporations, a paralyzing stranglehold on our culture.  Though its proponents claim that it protects creativity, copyright law's exaggerated length and scope actually chokes off artistic genius an...

August 20, 2013

A Hotbed Boils Over

Israeli papers are abuzz about the brutal tasing of the right-wing pioneer, Boaz Albert, by IDF soldiers. It is causing a scandal in Israel. Mr. Alpert is a religious Jew who feels that he has a God-given right to settle anywhere in the land of Israe...

August 15, 2013

Muslim History 101

This is what the fight is all about: In the center of Jerusalem is the sacred structure which the Jews label as the Temple Mount, and the Arabs refer to as the Haram al-Sharif (the noble sanctuary) and Al-Aqsa (the farthest Mosque). A mere 35 acres; ...

August 11, 2013

The Crusades Reconsidered

One of the idiocies passed off for decades among Western historians is bemoaning the Crusades as evil. The Islamic world -- the Ummah -- has disseminated this imaginary charge against the West, and like fools, we have absorbed Arab lies and take...

July 21, 2013

Palestinian Power Politics in Chile

Chile overall has had a relatively democratic history for Latin America.  With the exception of the Allende/Pinochet era, Chile's history has been a slow progression of liberty over time, as more and more rights were extended down from the ...

July 7, 2013

The Palestinian Problem

The chief problem in the Mideast, as far as the world is concerned, is that Israel refuses to disappear. The chief problem in the Mideast, as far as Israel and the United States is concerned, is that the Palestinians refuse to disappear. Since they b...

July 6, 2013

Elements of Mideast Style

The Mideast has raised linguistic dishonesty to new levels. I daily watch videos and read articles where language is contorted and twisted until what is said has absolutely no meaning. If for no other reason than sheer honesty, we should agree on som...

July 4, 2013

Why the Revolution Worked

If there is one extremely deceptive aspect of the American Revolution, it is that the Founding Fathers made revolution look easy. Since that fateful day, over two centuries ago, revolutions have ruffled across the globe, many claiming to follow in th...

June 30, 2013

Requiem for Lebanon

Lebanon is dying. Once again, it is being flooded with refugees; this time from Syria, many of whom will never leave. The usual explanation is that Sunni-Shia rivalry is causing the present imbroglio, Nonsense! The real cause is Islam. To understand ...

June 16, 2013

Why Israel is Losing the Internet War

Israel is losing the internet war for chiefly the same reason that France and Poland fell early in World War II. Israel is fighting a new war using old methods. The end results are predictable and devastating. The first alarm bells should have gone ...

June 2, 2013

The White Paper of 1939

We Americans live in an Anglophile culture. This affects our perception of history.  One of the great tragedies, or crimes - depending on who is asked - of the 20th century, can be laid at the feet of the English.  This is either omitted fr...

May 31, 2013

Iranian Terror Cells All Over South America, Says Prosecutor

South America is being overrun with Iranian terror cells.  So claims the Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who has handed in a 500-page indictment of the Islamic Republic.  And a lot of leftist South American governments, including Nisma...

May 26, 2013

A Jerusalem State of Being

The Mideast Crisis is not something that the West is equipped to handle, or will ever be. The Israelis and Muslims understand this, but won't state it. Our press and leadership are not even aware of it. I am going to submit that the problem runs far ...

May 18, 2013

The Expulsion of the Moors

To this day, the Muslims of the world lament the loss of Andalus, the Arabic name for their Spanish Kingdom. While every Muslim knows what a mortal blow the loss of Spain was, few in the West are aware that even after the fall of Granada, the Spanish...

April 20, 2013

A Retrograde Creed

Contrary to what has been told us, Islam may be the most sterile philosophy to have captured the mind of man. No other philosophy so thoroughly destroys whatever people it has gotten a grip on. Once Islam is firmly in control, the society not only ha...

April 19, 2013

Giants in the Land?

There is story in the Book of Numbers: Moses sent in spies to scout out the land of Canaan before the tribes of Israel entered in to conquer.  They came back with a frightening report of giants in the land.  The Israelites were demoralized ...

March 30, 2013

Brutal Realism About the Middle East

History is made by imperfect men. This should be obvious; but only Israel is held to standards of perfection that no one else could measure up to. Yet, this is the drivel which is now taking over the planet. We see the BBC regularly condemning the J...

February 25, 2013

George Galloway Out of Control

There are few times in history when one is privileged (or horrified) to see a person of rare force rise above national boundaries to become an international phenomenon almost single-handedly.  Even rarer is to see someone who both entrances and ...

February 10, 2013

How not to Defend Israel

Experience has taught me that some of the worst anti-Israel polemics come from those who think they are defending Israel. In an age where large sections of the planet have access to the internet, the old methods for defending Israel will not work. Ti...

February 9, 2013

Divestment and the Destruction of Israel

Right now in Brooklyn, there is a major debate over whether Brooklyn College should allow speakers who advocate a policy of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel. The college president, Karen Gould, is allowing the scheduled forum to go a...

February 8, 2013

Argentina Freezes Food Prices

If this were not true, it would be unbelieveable.  You could not make this up, let alone imagine it. Argentina's food prices are out of control. Just read that title, and  ponder what an absurdity that is. Argentina arguably has the best ...

January 13, 2013

The Palestinian Buyout Plan Gains Steam

A buyout plan for Palestinians is resurfacing again.  Moishe Feiglin, a right-wing Zionist  in Israel, has suggested buying out the Palestinians for $500,000 per individual if they would leave voluntarily. Likud Knesset Member candidate ...

December 30, 2012

Latin America, the Mideast, and the Pope

I have taken on the dubious effort of translating some news reports from South American TV into English. Though my Spanish is fractured and weak, I can still glean one trend that is ominous. South American media has taken a viciously anti-Israel turn...

December 12, 2012

Free Speech: Either We Have it, or We Don't

The First Amendment to the Constitution of United States is the crown jewel of liberty in Western Civilization. There is nothing in history to compare it to. It is now under assault, not merely from a hoard of villainous dictators,; but more pernicio...

November 22, 2012

A Christmas Carol for Gaza

In the opening days of this new war in Gaza, Al Jazeera has reported from Israel that a religious Jewish woman had told them, "The messiah needs to come." All the talking heads of the news networks and all the politicians of the world could not have...

November 18, 2012

If You Start to Take Vienna, Take Vienna

The master of military conquest, Napoleon Bonaparte, defined a simple but classic truth which eludes the modern state, in this case Israel. If one seeks to take a territory, then take it. Right now, nations are starting to insist that products made ...

November 11, 2012

The Answer Is outside the Mideast

For over 64 years, the Palestinians have been the football in the Mideast struggle. Neither Israel nor the Arabs have budged one inch since 1948 in regard to the lot of these people. It is folly to assume that any further negotiations will change any...

November 4, 2012

Economic Separatism in Europe: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

As Europe's economy collapses, a new brand of separatism is arising in Europe: Economic separatism.  Ironically, a closer look indicates that these separatists will only be recapitulating the errors of their current arrangements -- and should th...

October 22, 2012

How to Destroy a Rich Country

The next election may determine where America is headed -- to a restoration of its greatness, or to a retreat into the obsolescence of history.  Before one casts a vote, an example stands before us of a country that made the wrong choice, warnin...

October 3, 2012

How the Europeans Saved Islam

A study of Western History shows that on many occasions Islam was on its deathbed only to be rescued by Western intervention. The civilizational struggle we now face is one of our own making. The enormity of this abysmal lunacy becomes apparent when ...

September 2, 2012

The Arabs of South America

Most Americans are unaware of this, but there is a massive Arab community in Latin America.  Overall, 5% of Latin America is Arab in origin, which corresponds to roughly 25-30 million people.  This can vary from a low of 2% in Uruguay to an...