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Sunday, December 7, 2025

Remembering Pearl Harbor

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Eighty-four years ago, on a Sunday like today, naval aircraft of the Empire of Japan attacked the US Pacific fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Saturday Snark

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Images courtesy of Power Line 's The Week in Pictures and its Comments section.

Russian Recruiting for Ukraine

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The war in Ukraine is a meat grinder for both sides, more reminiscent of World War I than of II. I have imagined Russia filling its many vac...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Friday Snark 2.0

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Images courtesy of Real Clear Politics' Cartoons of the Week.

Friday Snark 1.0

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Images courtesy of Politico 's The Nation's Cartoonists on the Week in Politics.

A Modest Win-Win Proposal

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Writing for PJ Media , Stephen Kruiser looks at the billion dollar level of primarily-Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota and concludes , “The...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Thursday Snark

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Image courtesy of Instapundit .

Getting Real About Ukraine

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If you care about the outcome in Ukraine, or about how Trump looks when his efforts there fail to produce a ceasefire, I have a column you ...

Churchill, on Hudson Bay

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RealClearDefense links to a New York Times article that is not behind their paywall. It concerns renewed interest in the town of Churchi...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

A Motive Hypothesized

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At PJ Media Matt Margolis floats a theory about the motive the Afghan guy had for shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, ki...

A Problem and a Recollection

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There have been several related stories recently in a section of the media I regularly read, but only occasionally write about: defense. The...

Another Nothingburger

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A week ago Democrats had momentum; they'd won three off-year elections in blue states in November and believed they were "on a roll...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Negligent

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I have no inside information but … some believe it possible, perhaps even probable, that Dr. Fauci was complicit in ordering and providing g...

Humidifier Update

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A quick follow-up note. You'll remember we were getting excessive dust on our furniture while using a "cool mist" humidifier? ...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Update

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At midnight eleven twelfths of 2025 will be in the history books. We then will be three weeks from the winter solstice and the technical beg...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Saturday Snark

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Images courtesy of Power Line 's The Week in Pictures and its Comments section.

Friday Snark, a Day Late

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Images courtesy of  Politico 's  The Nation's Cartoonists on the Week in Politics.

A Least Bad Choice

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Seventy plus years of Communism and the almost forty years since have largely extinguished the Russian public’s optimism about its influence...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Our First, Failed Socialist Experiment

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Each year at Thanksgiving Power Line reprints an evergreen column written in 2009 for PL by history prof Paul A. Rahe. He relates the Plym...

When … Not If

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September 11, 2001, October 7, 2023, the National Guard shooting in DC, the San Bernardino and Bataclan massacres and so many more. You have...
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