Foreign News/Policy

The Real Story of the Canadian Convoy And James Bauder

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In the midst of the turmoil created by the COVID-19 lockdowns, there was a powerful movement that started in Canada that most Americans were aware of if not ardent followers of. In spite of the freezing weather in Ottawa at that time, hundreds of people protested the restrictions and curtailment of human rights. The Freedom Convoy originated in response to the excessive COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates for US-Canada cross-border truckers and grew into so much more.

Do the Left Really Hate Donald Trump So Much That They’d Rather See More and More Blood Flowing Than the President Get Some Credit for Stopping a War?

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Our good friends on the left — and I include the recent neoconservatives, who are not really conservative in very much among the left — are up in arms that the wicked, evil, hated President Donald Trump is trying to get at least a ceasefire, and possibly a lasting peace agreement, between Russia and Ukraine, …

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Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins of August 15th – 17th, 2025

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Welcome back to our weekly dive into the art of the deal, where we dissect the moves of the ultimate dealmaker, President Donald J. Trump, through the lens of business principles.

Trump. Leader of the free world.

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On Monday, Zelensky and European leaders flew to Washington to get the terms of agreement for an armistice between Russia and Ukraine after 3 years of war. The details need to be ironed out. Zelensky and Putin will meet head-to-head and then the will go to see the principal—aka Donald Trump—at a time and place to be determined.

By Hoping Trump Fails, Democrats are in Fact Hoping the Country Fails

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As history has shown, the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which ran from 1953 to 1961, marked a pivotal era in American history. As the nation emerged from the darkness of World War II and faced the escalating challenges of the Cold War, Eisenhower’s policies reflected a prudent balance between progressive innovation and traditional values.

We Don’t Know How the Summit Turned Out, But Our Neocons Are Hoping For Failure!

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Our good friends on the left are just up in arms over President Trump’s meeting with Soviet Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in Alaska, ostensibly to discuss some way to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has been raging — well, maybe raging isn’t the right word; how about plodding along? — for 3½ years now. …

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Thoughts on Nagasaki Day

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My mother served as a WAC — Women’s Army Corps — in General Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo during the Korean War, and she came to know the Japanese people, inasmuch as that was possible for a white woman who didn’t speak Japanese, in the early 1950s. She met and married my father there, so …

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Simplified Complex Issues

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Trump’s closing of USAID agency has stopped the delivery of tangible contraceptives. This could reverse declining birth rates in many countries. Do we want other nations to increase populations – especially those aid-dependent nations in African, Asian and the middle east? If the Fed refuses to drastically lower the interest rates as Trump wishes and …

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Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins of August 1st – 3rd, 2025

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Flanked by LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, controversial New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor, and other sports icons, President Donald Trump revived the Presidential Fitness Test with an executive order, emphasizing American strength and resilience.

Introduction to Business 101: Golf with THE Chuck – Trump’s Weekend Wins of July 25th–28th, 2025

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The July 25–28 weekend exemplified Trump’s tireless pursuit, from sealing EU trade pacts to celebrating PGA success and brokering the Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire, while peace deal announcements signaled global progress.

If you are not calling on Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, your cries about people suffering in Gaza are worthless.

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Armand Domalewski describes himself, in his Twitter biography, as a “Data scientist” living in San Francisco, and “Co-Founder, YIMBYs for Harris”. He’s actually followed by several real people I know, so perhaps he’s not an actual Palestinian bot, like so many of the other pro-Hamas posters on social media, but in this, he might as …

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