“Remember the Maine,” Remember the Maddox (Gulf of Tonkin). Well, if you can’t, then get ready for “Remember the Straits of Hormuz”? Or whatever it takes—like those alleged Iraqi WMD—for…
I begin this post with a confession, or maybe it’s just an admission. But it’s controversial and I’m taking the chance that some readers might be pissed off at me.…
As the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China continues its boa constrictor-like suffocating of the human rights and liberties of the people of Hong Kong, its latest authoritarian…
Last week Trump announced his promise to give another $19 billion in support to the farmers who have been economically injured by his trade war with China. That gift,…
In these pages over the years I have written admiringly of my uncles who served in WWI and WWII, three in combat roles, and one in the Army Air Force…
Or, how I (accidentally) prevented the People’s Republic of China from ripping off my “intellectual property”. We all know that among the complaints that the US likes to lodge against…
One aspect of the rationale for Donald Trump’s ramped up the trade war with the PRC is that the Chinese are deceitful thieves (see, it takes one to know one)…
I watched dumbfounded as Texas Senator Ted Cruz (always dumbfounding to watch) gave a passionate defense of President Donald Trump from the Senate floor las week. I could not help…
There have been several Quasimodos, even a cute Disney animated version. The best known were played by Lon Chaney Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Hopkins. The movie lore is…
It has been nearly sixty years of carrying around the guilt of it. Me, a (now emeritus) professor, an academic cheater, one who has committed the mortal sin of academe. …