Friday, June 13, 2025

Happy birthday, US Army!

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On Saturday, the US Army will celebrate its 250th anniversary. It is a year older than the country it defends. In all honesty, I didn't ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

"Why don't you say thank you!"

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Our hillbilly elegist scolded the president of Ukraine for his lack of gratitude for US aid (which Messrs Trump and Vance have stopped). It...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Veritas

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In the curious way he has, our 46th president turned my mind toward Harvard's 384th commencement (assuming there were no years without a...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Book of the year!

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2025 isn't half over, but I doubt it will bring us another book as compelling as On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future o...
Friday, May 16, 2025

When will Trump realize he's being played for a fool?

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Donald Trump cut off military aid to Ukraine, scolded the Ukrainian president like an errant schoolboy, and kissed Vladimir Putin's ass,...
Monday, May 12, 2025

NATO troops in Ukraine? The horror!

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Really, Putin's spokesman has a future on Saturday Night Live. Talking to ABC yesterday, Dmitry Peskov "rejected the idea of deploy...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Making Stalin great again

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Not content with nearly obliterating the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, the Russians have now graced it with a bust of Stalin inscribed ...
Friday, May 09, 2025

Leo XIV and the vernacular Mass

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An American pope, how amazing! I wonder what Trump will make of him -- and vice versa! But mostly I wonder, as the agnostic son of two Irish...