The Likes of Which Are Rarely Seen Consider the evidence. Democrats flipped seats in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maine. Democrats could be up to 56 seats in Senate. They picked up 43 in the House. The Democrats won the majority of governorships for the first time in 16 years and this is after the massive exodus from Blue States like CA, IL and NY. Democrats haven’t won full control of government in Arizona in 60 years, in Pennsylvania since

There can only be one TOP STORY this day. #1 - Democracy is the theory... that Common People know what they want and get it...good and hard. (HL Mencken) The country has repudiated Donald Trump. Can't say we didn't see this coming. For once, the polls were spot on. Historically, the party in power loses ground in the midterm election. But... Republicans were shellacked. And low turnout among Republicans can't be blamed. No doubt a confluence of factors led by Trump hatr

Three Top Items (7 min) #1 - AI Update #2 - Gun Violence: Mis-Diagnosed #3 - Tomorrow's Decision #1 - AI Update: Heard of "The Hackening"? This new term refers to AI's growing capability to identify and exploit weaknesses in existing software systems. Of all kinds. Apparently new and coming versions of AI can search and expose vulnerabilities at unimaginable speed, thereby making timely fixes impossible. There have been a dozen cyberattacks in just the first two days of Oct

Top 3 #1 - France's Humiliation Accelerates. #2 - AI: Next Big Short? #3 - Grandma's a Problem Here Too. #1 - Not About School Hours Any More This past June I was having dinner while on holiday with a couple who lived in Paris. The wife was British and the husband was French. I made the indelicate observation that Paris used to be my favorite city but my last two trips there revealed things were no longer the same...and "not" in a good way. The pair took great umbrage at m

Top 3 Posts: #1 - Iran Update: Keeping Perspective By now everyone on the planet is fed up with U.S. involvement in the Iran conflict. We are sick and tired of its impact on gas prices and inflation. We no longer trust anything President Trump or the regime in Iran has to say about what to expect next. We see no end in sight. Amidst all the calumny and malaise, it is useful to keep some facts in mind: The Mullahs and their military thugs have been the world's greatest spon

Top Three #1 - Grandma's to Blame #2 - Iran: Same Old Same Old #3 - Fraud Update #1 - Euro Dilemma It's long overdue that European governments receive their richly deserved comeuppance after the absurd social contract they implemented post WWII. In a blatantly self-serving attempt to win back public trust after nearly losing the continent to Hitler, they gave away the store. Nationalized healthcare, five week vacations, no layoffs, and a cornucopia of other government hando

Top 3 Items (9 min read) Three Year Anniversary Iran Update None #1 - October 7, 2023 On this day, as everyone not living under a rock knows, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and murdered 1,200 Jewish citizens. 226 civilians and 25 IDF soldiers were taken hostage and stored in tunnels under Gaza. To put this in perspective...1,200 Israeli civilians is equivalent to 44,000 Americans being murdered within hours. Atrocities perpetrated with these murders included hundr

(6 minute read) Top Three Tags... Public School Spending: Mind Boggling More Education Bad News AI Safety Accords *** #1 - Public School Funding: Funding What? US public schools are given over $1 trillion in funding each and every school year. That averages out to $21,100 per student. Per-student funding was highest in NY averaging $37,500.  Think about it. The average classroom size is 24 students in NY. Thus, OVER $900,000 PER CLASS a year. Under $100,000 of that goes to

Top 3 Tags Netanyahu at UN Trump-Xi Summit - Ho Hum Iran: Oil's Back Flowing, just not Iran's Read time - 10 minutes *** #1 - When Haters Walk Out before You Start ...you know it's gonna be a cracker of a speech. Bibi Netanyahu, one of the very rare Good Guy leaders with stones (N.B., plenty of Bad Guy leaders have stones), let 'em have it at the UN General Assembly last Thursday. A mass walkout of delegates occurred before the Israeli Prime Minister’s address even started.

(Now that my uncontrollable urge to vent via a Letter to Donald, let's get back to business) Systematically Bamboozled Latest polls show Americans are 70-30 against the data centers upon which AI supremacy depends. This is not good. When asked why...water depletion is #1 and electricity is #2. Let's examine reality... Water: The vast majority of data centers under construction use closed loop water cooling, which means water is recycled not consumed. As such, datacenter wat

Dolly leaves us and... we are poorer. Dolly Parton passed away at 80. One of a kind. A Pure Product of America. Grew up dirt poor as one of 12 children in the Great Smoky Mountains. Was married for nearly 60 years. Her husband, Carl Dean, died just last year. Funny how that goes. So often one spouse soon follows another in "real" marriages. When asked how she kept on performing and writing songs at her age, she replied, "I ain't got time to get old." Dolly may be the l

Whatta Ya Got to Lose? Looks like in the state of Montana you can now try experimental drugs if you're game. For a cost of $12,500 and a review board okay, you can sign up to try an experimental drug. One not yet, maybe never, approved by the FDA. The drug company sets the price. For the first time, Biotechs have a faster path to market. This "right to try" legislation seems like a good idea to me. At least at first blush. That said...can you imagine the disclaimers on t

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

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

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

Check This Out The Council on Criminal Justice, a non partisan, independent think tank, just released some eye-opening stats. Murders in the US dropped by 20% in 2025 from 2024. Spurred by drops of 30% in Chicago, 20% in NYC, 31% in Baltimore, 26% in Atlanta, 33% in Oakland, 31% in our Nations capital. Motor Vehicle theft - is down 25% Robberies - down 18% Violent crime arrests - up 100% Gang disruptions - up 210% Illegal Border Crossings - down 99% Overdose deaths - down 21%

Under the leadership of the ATW, which mercifully ended on January 20, 2025 ... our nation performed as follows: Inflation hit a 40 year high. The monthly mortgage payment on a median price home more than doubled. The inflation-adjusted value of the average American’s weekly paycheck fell 4%. Native-born Americans were losing jobs while net job growth went to foreign-born workers. The cost of servicing the national debt exploded 117%. Bureaucratic government jobs exploded by