Well, the New Year has begun in earnest, hasn’t it? We turned the corner from the holiday and woke to a brand new year filled with…another year of the election campaign! The one last yer was jus a work up to this one, a sort of exercise in sorting reality. MR. Trump looked strong in […]

A fellow named John Hinderaker writes in the POWERLINE Blog, always provides an entertaining start to the day. This morning featured two interesting items in the misogyny column. We have seen a flurry of notable events in that category lately. Mr. Hinderker attempted to just the other new development: all female flight crews in the […]

(Damian Dovarganes caught this moment in lower left above of the un-surrection yesterday downtown in Washington. We did not know about it since we were streaming marvelous old television series, marveling that the old network sequencing has been replaced with old shows now new again. The new system of airing old series as if they […]

Taiwanese voters headed out to the polls yesterday to determine the island’s next President and legislature. This is the first major world election of 2024, marking the world’s first big election of the year. The winner of the elections ‘could’ have major implications for Taiwan’s fate and its strained relationship with China. That should be […]

(Junior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania John Fetterman, who continues to recover from a stroke during the last campaign cycle. He has become alert, much to the surprise of many observers. Photo Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). We like the date: 1-11, or a least the start of this one. We rose this morning with the usual heightened […]

So, here we are in the New Year! Morning, Gentle Readers! As usual, all sorts of activity going on in our madly spinning world. The actual election year is starting here, and will be the loudest noise through the year. Apparently the MSM has been summoned to the President’s re-election team to be briefed on […]

There is a bunch of stuff going on this morning. We discussed in some minor detail the strange antics of the American Command and Control system yesterday, and the details of the hospitalization of Secretary Austin, and the apparent delay in notification of the PRESIDENT, his DEPUTY, the CONGRESS, CHAIRMAN of the JOINT CHIEFS and […]

It is a remarkable thing, this experience we share on a spinning globe hurtling in an elliptical manner around a gigantic ball of bright burning gas. We have our relatively short times here on earth, and the cohort of the Salts in the circle are all becoming conscious that our time here is entering the […]

Author’s Note: Yesterday we commented that SECDEF Austin was working from home, or something. We wish him well an a speedy recovery. But in our comment on the DEPSECDEF, she was not informed as she went on vacation. Others not in the loop: the President, National Security Council. Congress and the Service Chiefs. The latter […]

It is a big day! Unexpected, though. Bear with us, please. We were going to talk about the big snowstorm but it didn’t happen. Instead, we are going to talk about the Big Anniversary. We may be old, but we are still organized! We had contingency plans to bring out the National Guard to deal […]