I’m not sure who first used this title, and it may even have been me, in 2009, when I wrote a short essay on “Homer Simpson and the Constitution” at RedState.com The line had nothing to do with the content of…
Category: Race and Culture
Gaijin
Gaijin, pronounced “guy-jin” is a Japanese word meaning “foreigner”. But it is much more than that. I lived in Japan 1972-1975 as an Army officer. And I had studied Japanese for four semesters in college to satisfy my language requirements.…
Of No-Go Zones and Dragnets
It was this way once and it may have to be again. This is Walter Huston, “Beast of the City”, a 1932 gangland film, one of the early talkies, pre-censorship, and probably a scene which never really occurred in the real…
Gotta Smoke? The Veteran’s Edition
I once heard Paul Harvey say It’s the sound of work boots going up the steps, and the sound of bedroom slippers coming down. Mr Harvey was comparing America to Europe at the time, and it was the 1960s.…
Trade Brinksmanship, not Trade War, versus Globalism
“Trade War” is a term the enemies of Donald Trump use to denigrate his proposals for restoring a balance to American trade policies. Only it’s not “trade war” but trade brinkmanship, which, as it was first used to define JFK’s strategy against the USSR…