This was the Big Deal in a Big Week as the spotlights wheeled southwest from Manhattan to arrive at the East Room of the White House. The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is what provided the venue for most UN member states to send senior delegations to the event. Aside […]

  Editors Note: According to the METOC Weather Guessers, we are officially in Fall. We thought a quick note on Greenland would be useful, since it won’t be sporting anything except white and some soot from jet engines until Spring! What a week! Greenland This was not intended to be a summary of the disparate […]

The component parts of the Big Week are coming into somewhat sharper focus, now that some of the jet exhaust has blown away in the big Nor’easter along the coast. We’re ready to settle down and see what may have happened with the two major conflicts still simmering. One of the Big Moments in the […]

  A Big Day …In a Very Big Week! The massive storm that soaked the nation has almost passed. East Coast residents are still advised to keep an eye on the sky. We’re seeing sunlight in Fairfax for the first time in over three days. We are hoping for a runnier if slightly smaller week […]

HI! There was more unfolding in this Big Week of local, state, national and international issues of common concern. We gathered in the Conference Room for Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks this morning to Manhattan at the UNCA and marveled as a substantial contingent of the diplomats exited the chamber before the state of Israel rose to […]

For a few hours this week, it sounded as though the Strait of Hormuz might reopen. An unnamed senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran could restore passage within seven days if the United States eased military pressure and began lifting its blockade of Iranian ports. The proposal, the official said, had reached Washington through […]

  The historical irony here is almost too loud to ignore, so why don’t you come on in and snuggle up and enjoy some of it with us? The Opium Wars are back! It is what China wants to do to us by self-driving cars as we have done to them in other generations- by […]

“Operation Argument” was the name of the military operation launched by the United States Army Air Forces, supported by the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command, against Nazi Germany in February 1944. Airplanes loaded with high explosives were supposed to demonstrate the gravity of the discussion. The big argument in progress then, the biggest ever, was […]

The Conference Room was filled yesterday morning to see our President- a man arguably acting as the Chief Executive of a lot more territorory- told the Iranians he was prepared to annihilate them to make Iran a world-class state in the great tradition of Persian nations. He looks a little tired these days, and we […]

Orchard Owner William Tyson and His Corner, 1951 Peaches in a savory dinner? Yes, please! Our pal Amanda has a wonderful recipe for Peach Balsamic Chicken over at her Homestead Site. But hold on for just a second. Those of us who hang out in a Conference Room about forty feet on the diagonal from […]