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Air Power for Peace
All caught up with the Michigan Wolverines taking the National Championship and the political dueling in Iowa and New Hampshire, the story of the testing of the first B-21 Raider stealth bomber wound up on my stack of stuff.
The initial B-21, one of six pre-production models the Air Force plans to acquire, has been making test flights out of Edwards Air Force Base in California since November, but only became known to the public recently.… read more
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Years ago, when concern for global warming began to heat up – pardon the pun – and climate change became part of the terminology, I recall writing about the plethora of studies coming out of our universities and think tanks that supported the government’s environmental agenda.
The U.S. has funneled billions, yes, billions, to the United Nations to fund the work of the International Panel on Climate Change, where funds go to hundreds of climate scientists in the development of their annual report, designed to scare the hell out of us.… read more
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To begin, I’m so impressed with the Democrat leadership at the top with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. It’s unfortunate they are not on the November 8 ballot where I vote, In Arizona.
The Republicans jump on every little thing these people do or say. … read more
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President Biden’s speech to the National Education Association, in an appearance sponsored by the Democrat National Committee on September 23, 2022, made political sense because 98 percent of the NEA’s contributions went to candidates on the left.
Once again, however, it provides me the opportunity to remind readers of another speech; one that was given on July 6, 2009 by the NEA’s retiring general counsel, Bob Chanin.… read more
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The saying – “the chickens have come home to roost” – with its meaning that bad things done in the past have come back to bite you in the ass – fits all too well with President Biden’s decision to forgive college loans.
In 2010, when I was living in Texas, writing op-eds published in several newspapers, I recall a critical piece I wrote when then President Obama signed legislation overhauling the student loan program.… read more
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Watch Zelensky’s Speech or Go for Ice Cream?
When White House Mouthpiece Jen Psaki was asked if President Biden would be watching Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s virtual presentation to Congress on Wednesday, she intimated it depended on his daily schedule. Really, Jen?
As a former spokesman in the corporate world, her answer should have been: ‘While I haven’t seen his schedule for the day, I’m sure viewing that speech will preempt anything previously scheduled.’… read more
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(NOTE: I am not a doctor. I only played one in a made-for-TV movie. But I do possess a degree of common sense.)
Weeks ago, I decided I didn’t want to read one more story about Covid or the variants and stopped covering it in my blog.
I had it with the “experts,” – Fauci and all of the talking head doctors – featured on the networks and in newspapers. … read more
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Coincidentally, “Enemies of the State,” was the heading on John Hinderaker’s blog, PowerLine, in which he, too, noted Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to go after so-called “domestic terrorists” – parents and grandparents – who are practicing their right of free speech at school board meetings.
While my enemies list refers to enemies of the people, Garland views every day Americans, interested in their children’s education, as enemies of the state.… read more
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On October 5, 2021, my wife and I celebrated our 65th wedding anniversary.
Perusing our album of black and white wedding photographs was a vivid reminder of how times have changed since 1956. I would suppose that wedding photos today are taken on an iPhone.
The American flag hung in every classroom, where the pledge of allegiance was repeated each day, and prayers were not out of the question. … read more
NOTE: In my last blog, I wrote of President Biden’s botching of the Afghan withdrawal, relating it to his decades of foreign policy failures. Since we are now getting 24/7 reporting on the situation in Afghanistan, I have decided to comment on another topic high on his agenda … equity.
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On President Biden’s first day in office, among that stack of executive orders on his desk was his policy outlining a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.… read more