“I Hope I Get a Good Mafia”
That was actually said in the early days of the crumbling Soviet Union. The speaker was a young man from the Caucasus who had staked out a street corner in Moscow where he planned to set up a kiosk...
Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Russia’s Biggest Hoax, Remembered
vassar / April 22, 2019
(Written years ago, this used to be an annual celebration of Leftist cupidity, but now it's getting serious, especially on the Religion front. I think they're willing...
If It Sneaks in the Night like a Raid, and Targets Like a Raid
It's a raid. Dammit.
And not a war.
A raid is designed to achieve a limited objective. Raids are not impetuous, born of anger or moral indignation...so no, Ivanka seeing children dead from gas did not...
Oligarchs, Toward a Working Definition Inside the Deep State
Steve Bannon recently referred to Michael Bloomberg as an "oligarch", which I believe is a fair extension of the term, since it has been used selectively in the media to a more narrow club membership, as if Russian...
Common Cause
Q: Has America had any enemy or antagonist since W0rld War II which the Democratic Party has NOT made common cause with?
To make "Common cause" generally means “to unite one's interest with another's” and...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...