In 1939 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Germany to sign a deal with Adolph Hitler, allowing Germany to annex the largely German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Agreement, in Neville’s mind, spelled “peace for our time.” He proudly told the British people that for the second time in history a prime minister had returned from Germany “bringing […]
Shakespeare famously noted that “A rose by any other name would smell the same,” which is probably not something anyone would argue over, or disagree with. However, President Trump spent today in Qatar, which got me musing over the pronunciation of that country’s name. Almost everyone on American television pronounces it “Cut-ter,” but I heard a high mucky-muck in Qatar, […]
Famed French actor Gérard Depardieu has received an 18-month suspended sentence in a French court for sexually assaulting two women on a set in 2021. He was convicted of groping a 54-year-old woman responsible for decorating the set and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). He was also ordered to pay a total of 29,040 […]
President Trump was celebrating V-C (Victory over China) Day on Monday, May 12, as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States issued a joint resolution to cut tariffs by 115 percent. Both China and the U.S. had set tariffs at 125 percent following Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2. Those tariffs are now 10 percent for the […]
I’m sure most of us recall the promises Donald Trump made while campaigning to be president. He’d end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and he’d make sure Iran never got nuclear weapons. Okay, Sir Donald, where do we stand? Today, Monday, May 12, is the day that European leaders and Ukraine President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy have set as […]
Believe me, religion is the last subject I want to discuss, but the elevation of a Pope has global significance of no small magnitude. It can be a positive development, or a mysterious one. Recaall the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. That duo truly changed the world for the better. After a Pope who seemed to […]
President Trump today touted the conclusion of the first trade agreement since Liberation Day on April 2 when prohibitive tariffs were levied on virtually every nation in the world. Trump said the deal “opens up a tremendous market for us” and added that the agreement was actually years in the making, but it took his team to wrap up negotiations. […]
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) for some bizarre reason invited Joe Biden over for an interview on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. Biden, of course, never served in any military unit and orchestrated, or at least rubber-stamped, the biggest military embarrassment in U.S. history — the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Anyway, from what I watched of the interview, Biden could barely […]
Reuters, among other media outlets, is bringing back bad memories for us, an event that was completeliy downplayed if not outrightly ignored by the socialist media of our country — that of Joe Biden’s effort to support Hamas rebels in Gaza by building a floating pier to bring in so-called humanitarian supplies by sea. The bridge, which cost some $230 […]
As I worked to set up my new site — this one — I heard news coming out of France that a court had blocked Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years. I turned to my AI news-generation assistant and this is what it came up: “The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from participating […]
