(Alexander of Macedon visited Afghanistan, 300 years Before the Current Era). There is some talk this morning about the end of the twenty-year American experience in Afghanistan. For some of us it goes back a little further. For others, a lot further. Some of the Writers Section participated in one. I got to watch two, […]

Afghanistan is falling to the Afghans, or some Afghans, this morning. The images of hundreds of young people squashed against US Air Force transport aircraft trying to board surpass the old standard established on the Embassy roof in Saigon. This is a new graphic summation of bad decisions. It includes reports of stowaways on the […]

In the Piedmont of Virginia the dawn mimicked dream nicely. It mingled with the warmth of decent coffee. Low gray skies, dark things flitting across the limited view from under the dark green awning of canvas surrounded by the rich green of pasture grass. The birds in the bright dark colors of night echoed the […]

Author’s Note: There was one spark of good news in the mail today. Some good people may have helped get an Afghan translator and family out of th disaster that has a lot of Veterans pensive about the collapse of a nation. And Education…this is not a polemic, just an attempt to describe a system […]

The Styx River passes through our lives, carrying away family and dreams, lovers and comrades in its slow but inexorable and mighty flow. We watch the vast eddies in the immense course of the mighty current that separates our existence from one reality of human joy and pain to the endless wonders of eternity. We […]

(Morning! Sad day yesterday- the passing of an old friend, the end of something long and hard in a place far away where many had served. Emotional. I was going to run portraits of Messrs Sunstein and Ayres to go along with this piece. They are architects of the new ruling class, and to recognize […]

It is a muggy morning here in the Piedmont. A few puffy clouds are evident under the rising sun, but there is that warm moist blanket of air that is predicted to send us over a hundred degrees by noon. I forgot to check if that is “actual” or “heat effect” temperatures, but that does […]

Well, as taxpayers, we can be proud that the United States Senate was hard at work last night, finally clearing their busy calendar a couple minutes before 0500 this morning. I don’t know how they do it. I am not sure that our elected members actually stayed awake and in session for the whole night, […]

There is something magical in the country, watching the Earth produce whatever particular glory it chooses to brighten the morning. Loma was late for the pre-meeting today. He had been next door attempting to negotiate for some fresh eggs from the Russians, and got a dozen nice ones. It is useful that people around the […]

Editor’s Note: There is plenty to talk about this morning, but the Infrastructure Bill- the ‘bi-partisan’ version of it is 2,700 pages and no one has read it, specifically referring to the people who are about to pass it and make law out of what the lobbyists gave them. I like the part that includes […]