The Much-touted MOU... is a whopping page and a half. Not much to sink one's teeth into despite being touted as the be all and end all of the Iranian conflict. Hell, CME is that long. Reminds me of a saying attributed to Winston Churchill. When asked his strategy for defeating the German U boats in WW2, he replied, "Drain the Sea." When asked how, Churchill replied, "I don't know. Don't confuse me with the details." Well the MOU sounds a bit like that. By the way...Paki

(A "brief" Special Edition - Eight Days in the African Bush) The African day begins when the fiery orange ball creeps above the horizon and shatters the star-filled inkiness. Night's occasional shriek from a doomed prey or the bark of surveillant baboons are soon replaced by the chorus of exotic songbirds. Bundled against the wintry chill, our military grade land cruiser ventures us out. Such wonders to behold. It never takes long. Yards from camp, a 6000 pound white rhi

(***Sorry, kind of a long one 'cause CME will be dark for a few weeks.) That's What Some Are Calling AI The thought goes beyond cocktail parties in the Bay Area. Wildly grandiose, even blasphemous? Certainly seems so. Totally far fetched? In concept maybe not so much. While AI, wherever it ends up, will never be supernatural or divine, more and more onlookers think this new super power will eclipse all predecessors by a wide margin. Dwarfing the impact and influence of t

God Bless Them All Memorial Day is, of course, the American federal holiday that commemorates all service personnel who died defending you and me and this country we call home. The first national observance of what would become Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868. Then known as Decoration Day, the holiday was proclaimed by Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic – a fraternal organization of veterans – to honor Union soldiers who had died in the A

War is Same Old, Same Old But It Has to Be Done The reason is quite simple. Iran intends to obtain nuclear weapons by any means available. The original ruler and his senior leadership — all dead now, as are their replacements, and many of the replacements of the replacements too — were "crazy," "lunatics," and generally fanatics don’t make for good negotiating partners. President Trump has tried. He’s tried at least four times. But he is not former President Obama for whom a

Do We Really Wanna Make Deals? What do the following have in common: Linda Sun, aide to NY Gov Hochul; Christine Fang, honeypot of Eric Swalwell; Russell Lowe, Chinese national and longtime driver for Senator Dianne Feinstein, Harvard Prof Charles Lieber; Congress staffer Chris Chen; Shujun Wang; Cindy Yang, and the most recent, Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, CA? Besides being the tip of the iceberg, all are proven spies for the Chi-coms. Embedded in US society and reportin

How is that exactly? This idiocy comes from the mouths of leftwing critics of the Iran war. Simple question...how much more hard line can they become? They murdered 45,000 of their own people. For All Our Sake...Finish the Job The "leaders" left standing in Iran (the ones with the guns at least) are fanatical killers who cannot be trusted. The blockade should stay in place until full commercial traffic to every country not named Iran resumes through the Gulf. The repudiatio

Tomorrow, May 8. Also the birth date of Harry "the buck stops here" Truman and the Catholic Church's greatest orator since Jesus, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Regrettably birthdates are all we share.. Next up for me... the big Eight - Oh! U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product This crosses an almost unthinkable threshold. On the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. As of March 31, the country’s publicly held debt was $31.265 tr

"The Way to Stop Racial Discrimination... ...is to stop discriminating by race." (Chief Justice John Roberts) Last week SCOTUS struck down Section 2 of the Voting Rights ACT, which had allowed that race could be used in establishing voting districts. The Court ruled that the social conditions, which warranted it at the time, no longer exist. The Court decision means that in the future race may not be used to determine voting districts. The VRA was enacted in 1965 to proper

(Let's take a break from the war and our 11th ceasefire attempt. Return to AI, which I suspect we will do...oh about a trillion times more as its era unfolds.) Some Ways to Think About AI Let's start at the end. AI is coming, we all know that. The question is do we lead or follow China. It's that simple. Down to us or China to control the space and thereby destiny. Forget about the Europeans. They are in irrevocable malaise. First, be clear. Many don't want us to win.

Tough to Fight Two Wars at Once Iran on the battlefield. TDS ideologues at home. Leftwing elites refuse to recognize the accomplishments of a war that is less than two months old and has cost few, very few, American lives. On April 11, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said the quiet part out loud on CNN. He admitted that while he wanted to see the Iranian regime defeated militarily “because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” the real p

Can't Negotiate ...with someone who does not acknowledge reality. Iran still thinks it has leverage. Terrorist partners, missiles, nukes coming, SoH control. Look again. Yet they won't face reality. Finish the Job An all too common scenario is we or Israel take out terrorists then get all gooey. Grant them ceasefires. Shovel tons of aid. What happens? You guessed it, they reconstitute. Just like Hamas is doing now. Just like Hezbollah did. The media flies to the aid

First the war...Can You Spell F-R-A-G-I-L-E? (Last Friday early AM) This so called Double Ceasefire sure looks un-promising so far. Missiles still being fired. Strait not quite open. No idea who's in charge for the Bad Guys. Experts say a panel of five. All hardcore America/Israel haters. Great, huh? But most importantly of all...these lunatics are liars. So many snags. Who's gonna be in charge? How we will verify? How do we ensure no retaliation against protestors?

Mad King Blinks. ..Or Did He ? Well, the Donald granted another reprieve. A cooling off period of two weeks to cobble together some kind of lasting peace. Good luck. So Dems, the Lamestream Media and, of course, the Mullahs and their band of merry thugs would have you believe he "blinked" . That is nonsense. Only the coalition of Trump Haters could see it that way. In fact, I have no doubt they were all rooting for him to go scorched earth. That way they could finally p

United We Stand, Divided We fall Powerful words oft repeated throughout history. First in the Bible: "If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" (Mark). Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand" (Matthew). In March 1799, Patrick Henry, famous for his Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech, invoked in his last public speech. Clasping his hands and swaying unsteadily, H

Sure Hope The Donald holds an Ace. Tough sledding. So much negativity. Securing nuke-enriched uranium stocks likely needs ground troops. A big No-No to Americans even though - to date - we've lost only 13 lives. Of the 300 injured, 250 plus have been patched up and already returned to duty. Still very hard to see how this gets resolved with all strategic boxes ticked. The Mullahs and their very well paid military thugs seems to have an inexhaustible supply of figureheads

Hard to Tell Seems little question that Epic Fury combined with Israel's intrepid will has brought Iran to its knees. At least in terms of leadership and military strength. Still it is difficult to know what is next or what the final outcome might be. Clearly the Administration is under great pressure to ensure a satisfactory outcome without a protracted conflict or large scale commitment of ground forces. Either action would likely hand the government over to leftwing D

America is Drowning All relationships depend on trust. The decision to participate, to contribute, to commit typically come down to trust. Right now our country is bereft of trust. We are drowning in a sea - not of mistrust - but outright DIS-trust. Polls show we don't trust any of our news sources or our politicians, our government, most of our corporations and universities, many of our religious leaders and too many of our doctors. And we also don't trust the polls that

You have to win it History proves unequivocally, when facing enemies sworn to your destruction holding diametrically opposed values and ideologies, it is never possible to negotiate or buy a binding truce, let alone long term peace. Only winning, total destruction of one's enemy, can assure peace. That is a fact. Think Japan, Germany. War of Choice, Trump's War All day long liberals spout these aphorisms intended to signify that this is NOT a war Americans "want". Let's be

Not the One in South Bend If nothing else, the Iran mission puts a fine point on the urgency to shield America from enemy missiles. It also reaffirms the strategic necessity of Greenland access over which these missiles would likely fly. Imagine if some Woke PM in Denmark decides to pull a UK or Spain and give us the cold shoulder in a time of need. Ronald Reagan had it right 40 years ago. Call it Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars, Golden Dome, Iron Shield. Doesn't