Curbing Population Growth and Climate Change
Our world is waking up to the disaster that is climate change, but a key upstream cause is unsustainable population growth. Too many people being born need water and food in places they don’t exist. People build economies that demand for more energy, minerals and other natural resources than our ecosystems can sustainably produce. We have been seeing our babies in the river for years, but have refused to act upstream.
What War With North Korea Looks Like
The batteries of North Korean artillery lie just on the other side of the divided peninsula’s demilitarized zone. There are thousands of them—some hidden, others...
It’s Beyond Parody How Beyond Parody Donald Trump Really Is
"You can't make this stuff up!" is an all-purpose punch line to point out something in reality that's so absurd that a punch line would...
WTF? Krazy Krauthammer Gleefully Imagines Possible Preemptive Nuclear Strike On North Korea
John Amato Displayed with permission from Crooks and Liars There was a lot of nervous chatter today in the Beltway after it was reported that...
Why Are We So Sure A Government Shutdown Will Be Seen As A Trump Faceplant?
There might be a government shutdown soon, and conventional wisdom says that this will be a disaster for the GOP, especially for Donald Trump, because America will realize it’s all his fault.
What Happens If Congress Doesn’t Pass a Federal Budget?
Government shutdowns are nothing if not looming. The specter of a shutdown often floats on the horizon every year as Democrats and Republicans barter over how to allocate money. This time, one of the big sticking points is a fight over using taxpayer dollars to build a massive wall along the southern border of the United States, a proposal long-promised by Trump.
Rule Britannia!
There are so many many places on our tiny island that can make you feel life is always worth living. You can stroll through the New Forest – which, oddly, is hundreds of years old – and watch the wild ponies and pigs. You can wander through woodlands galore and feel alive in ways you never will in a town or city albeit there are good things in towns and cities – I suppose 😉
How Our Former Presidents Can Prevent America From Being Unrecognizable in 2020
The first weeks of Trump’s presidency—our introduction to this man as chief executive—visited havoc on the nation. His tweets were impolite, immature, and menacing, from targeting a sitting federal judge to attacks on The New York Times.
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, and the Nedelin Disaster
The almost instant explosion of the North Korean missile test launch brings to mind another missile failure, with deadly consequences and a remarkable change in the direction of world history.
Will The Far Left And Far Right Ever Learn?
Britain and, I believe, much of the west are instinctively politically centre right with certain centre left tendencies. Alternatively perhaps centre left with centre right tendencies. Take your pick. Either is fine.
In America You Can’t Rule By Fiat
Barack Obama signed less executive orders than Bush, but that did not stop conservatives laying the false allegation at Obama’s feet that “we don’t live in a monarchy,” and your “signing executive orders is governance by fiat.” Of course, they never called Barack Obama “King Obama,” for that would have been a bridge too far for even conservatives to cross, for that would have provided legitimacy to an already legitimate President.
The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland-A One Party State.
Now we all know that Putin runs Russia. I'm somewhat aghast that, as I write that, I have no idea what his political party is....
White House Staff: It Smells Like Pigs Around Here!
Apparently Ted Nugent expressed his opinion that Hillary Clinton is a “worthless bitch” and President Obama a “subhuman mongrel.” By not having him thrown out immediately, Trump affirms that opinion and affirms that he has no business representing the United States of America.
Emperor Trumpicus the ‘Madman’ Brings Pigs Into the White House
Antiochus IV “Epiphanes” devastated Jerusalem in 168 BC, defiled the Temple, offered a pig on its altar, erected an altar to Jupiter, prohibited Temple worship, forbade circumcision on pain of death, sold thousands of Jewish families into slavery, destroyed all copies of Scripture that could be found, and slaughtered everyone discovered in possession of such copies.