There is a dizzying amount of stuff percolating up from the fetid waters of the Tidal Basin here in DC. It was not an unprecedented event- Attorney General Barr decided not to show up up an inquisition by House of Representative staff attorneys, though he did appear before the more user-friendly Senate committee yesterday. Eric […]

It is the first of May, a famous holiday celebrated by the former Soviet Union and its satellites as a victory for the proletariat. It is not as big a deal as it was before Communism collapsed, but Venezuela might disagree. NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers formally retired on May 4, 2018, just a couple […]

(Military intelligence asset and mobster Lucky Luciano). I am sorry to plow old ground again, but this is a flip account of the involvement of Naval Intelligence with a unique troika of New York law enforcement and The Mob. Forgive me. I just binge-watched the Sopranos and am a little nostalgic. I was tipped off […]

This is a special day, and you may or may not be aware of the significance of the holiday remembering the men of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who were ordered to assault what Winston Churchill called “The soft underbelly” of Europe at Gallipoli. It wasn’t. My son marched on this day in […]

Well, it is actually a quiet week in the swamp. Many of the Creatures are out in the hustings, addressing the great inequalities of a society whose largesse is the greatest in the history of this pesky species. With the issuance of the Mueller Report, one might expect that lane of hysteria would quiet, but […]

The Office of Strategic Information: Part Two of the Post 9-11 Saga “Stupid Plastic Shoes” “The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by DoD in October 30, 2001, to support the Global War on Terror through coordinated Psychological Operations- PSYOPS- at target countries around the world. OSI was prohibited from operations […]

I was going to tell you about the ill-fated and brief trajectory of the Office of Strategic Influence in 2002, a wild hallucination that came as close to getting my name in the pages of the Washington Post as I pray I will ever be. They say there are a lot of Swamp Dwellers preparing […]

(Some Attorney General or another. Apparently he had a press conference this morning). Editor’s Note:As you might have heard, there was a paroxysm of emotion surrounding the issuance of a report authored by that Mueller fellow, which after more than two years of diligent investigation has shown nothing regarding coordination on the 2016 election between […]

Events overseas galvanized the world this week as the famed Cathedral of Notre Dame burned. It was like the end of the World War Two movie when the Germans wanted to know if the city was in flames as they fell back in the face of Patton’s advance. Thankfully, the conflagration was not as destructive […]

I remember the last time I was in the cathedral of Notre Dame in a city that at this distance in time- like San Francisco once was- is frozen in amber magic. A lot has changed since I last visited either of them. A pal sent a “poop map” of the City by the Bay […]