Earlier this evening, both the US and Iran have each announced that a two-week ceasefire has been agreed to. I employ this somewhat stilted phrasing to signify that each side is making rather different statements on the matter. For example, President Trump’s announcement on Truth Social1 predicated the ceasefire on “complete”, “immediate” and “safe” opening […]
Last night, April 1, President Trump made a roughly 15-minute televised speech to the nation in which he purportedly outlined the progress of America’s war with Iran. While the speech itself was a tangled mess of lies, distortions, and outright inventions, the following four main points could, with some effort, be extricated from the verbiage: […]
A few days ago, the seemingly moribund Syrian conflict suddenly came to life once again, as anti-government forces burst out of their enclave in the northwesterly Idlib province and swiftly overran the city of Aleppo and much of the surrounding regions. As of this writing, the Syrian army, bolstered by Russian air support, appears to […]
This past Thursday, as befits Thanksgiving Day, the Chicago Bears were squaring off against the much superior, at least if win-loss records are to be believed, Detroit Lions. While the end result, that of a Bears loss, was perhaps not at all unexpected, it was how they lost, and in particular the utter confusion that […]
During the 2024 US Presidential campaign, and in its immediate aftermath, a lot of words were expended both by Trump himself, and especially by Trump’s newest billionaire ally, Elon Musk, on the subject of the federal budget deficit and how this could, or, more stridently, would, be remedied. The anti-China tariffs, for example, were supposed […]
One of the centerpieces of Trump’s 2024 Presidential campaign was his promise to, once in office, enact a harsh across-the-board tariff against all Chinese imports into the US. As he repeatedly made the case in his campaign appearances, doing so would, on the one hand, restore America’s long-lost industrial base by protecting it against Chinese […]
To be completely honest, I could probably have written a largely identical post a month ago, or even earlier. At that juncture, however, I would have come up against two valid counterpoints – that the polls were too close to call, meaning that it were still possible for my specific criticisms to end up as […]
I felt, subjectively, that Trump was going to pull it out around 11 o’clock in the evening, Eastern Time. I had put up the election night livestream from NBC News in on of the windows on my home computer, and it was around 11 or so that one of their presenters, standing next to a […]
Without apologies to the Bard of Avon – to Trump, or not to Trump, that is the question… We begin the analysis of the upcoming Presidential Election in the US with two facts that are beyond dispute. One, as with many previous elections, this particular contest will be decided by a relative handful of so-called […]
In my second post on the site, I thought I might quickly go over some ground rules for the project. Privacy Policy I do not intend to collect any data from anyone, ever. There is a chance that some of my installed WordPress plugins might collect some information, for example for security purposes, however I […]