Foreign News/Policy

For the People of Gaza to Receive Any Aid, They Must Repudiate Hamas and Surrender

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The current ‘Palestinian’ sympathizer meme on Twitter — as always, I refuse to call it 𝕏, the absolute worst rebranding in history — is that the poor, poor Palestinian children, children! are starving. A gentleman calling himself Dr Mohammed al Najjar tweeted:

Doctors in Gaza collapse in operating rooms from hunger.
Ambulance drivers can’t drive, their stomachs empty.
A hungry doctor treats a hungry patient brought by a hungry driver.
To the free people of the world: Say ENOUGH to this starvation

It’s not just Dr Najjar — assuming he’s a real person and not just another pro-terrorist bot — but many others appearing in my feeds.

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Moment Charnière

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The French have a term to depict, to designate, a hinge moment – a turning point in history: Moment Charnière. Some such decisive/earth-shattering incidents that come to mind: Bestowing the Ten Commandments, the birth of Jesus, and more recently the dropping of atomic bombs that decimated Japanese cities.

Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins of July 11th–13th, 2025

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From July 11 to July 13, 2025, President Donald Trump channeled the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” work ethic, weaving diplomacy, leisure, and sports into a packed weekend. He announced a new trade agreement with the United Kingdom, golfed at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, and attended the FIFA Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.

Behind the US-China Tariff Negotiations; Fixing non-tariff trade barriers is a key goal

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Much of the media focus on the Trump administration’s reciprocal tariff policy has been on the progress of tariff negotiations with each US trade partner. With respect to communist China, media headlines in recent weeks have concentrated on the tit-for-tat of tariffs proposed by the US and “countered” by China

Why Should Hamas Surrender?

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When the Allies occupied Germany following World War II, and the United States occupied Japan, we insisted on, and forced, the de-Nazification of Germany, and the removal of the militarists who led Japan into the war. We required a cultural change which would lead to peaceful governments, governments which would not start wars of conquest. …

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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran?

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Former Ambassador John Bolton seems to have never met a war in which he didn’t want the United States involved, but Wikipedia noted his opinions during the War in Vietnam: Bolton was a supporter of the Vietnam War, but avoided combat through a student deferment followed by enlistment in the Maryland Air National Guard. During …

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Republicans talk, Trump does; Oh, and he is much better than they are at talking!

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This time around, Trump ain’t playing games. He sent military troops to the border and started rounding illegal aliens up and spitting them out of the country. He’s taken on the courts, the mayors and smarmy Gavin Newsom. Illegal border crossings hit zero in May.