Napoleon Bonaparte, Bette Davis and the New President By the time most read this the election will be over, a new president will have been elected, and everyone, particularly the media pundits, will be in full throat, telling us what happens next. In that light, a little history to provide some context… (Charles Joseph Minard, […]

Shia radicals launch missiles at a US Navy destroyer, missiles provided by Iran, probably made in China. North Korea continues development of a nuclear weapon and an ICBM. Russia bombs insurgents in Syria; Russian naval forces return to the Mediterranean; Russian intelligence personnel return to Cuba. China pressures Japan on islands in the East China […]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – Preamble to the Declaration of Independence It’s time to choose. Despite all the noise, the choice between the two […]

General Maxwell Taylor, a great combat soldier who became a horrible Washington DC general, brought the theory of proportional response to our national security. He convinced the Kennedy and Johnson administrations of its merit and they embraced it – Vietnam was partly the result. The essence of the theory is that when some other country […]

Would you vote for a candidate who said: “I personally believe the following is wrong, but I’ll do it anyway if you vote for me!” In an Oscar winning performance from 1966, a hero states that: “…when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by […]

Editor’s Note: The famed orator and philosopher Arias joins us this morning to point out some foibles of the Ruling Class- widely acknowledged by themselves as the smartest people in the room. See what you think. Vic Arias Speaks: Deplorable and Stupid Mrs. Clinton, in a statement she later retracted (though one suspects with some […]