Yeah, this is not the kind of promise you keep putting out—again and again and again—when you can actually win the war. In news links here and in commentary from my campaign , I have already lightly covered the ongoing debacle of Donald Trump’s war again Iran. As I said early on, what makes me even angrier about this story is that I am a longtime Iran “hawk,” as my regular readers know well. I…
An abandoned church in North Dakota. Get prepared to see a lot more of this. Now that I’m back to providing regular commentary here, I’m eager to catch up on a couple of big news stories that popped up in the past few months. The first of these is something I wasn’t exactly prevented from commenting on in this newsletter, but—well, discretion is the better part of valor. Given the possibility I…
A Reuters photo shows a sculpture in Washington, DC, titled “Sacrifice,” recently re-gilded at great expense and surrounded by National Guard troops, who are now a permanent feature of our imperial capital. There are multiple levels of symbolism going on here. I’m returning to covering news links, but in a format a little more expansive than the link roundups I’ve been sending out for the past…
The more I think of it, the real miracle of the American Revolution is that people wrote stuff like this—and the average American actually paid attention to it. Readers of this newsletter have probably seen the news that I did not win the Democratic primary for Congress in the Fifth District. Voters went with the known, comfortable, established guy. I coaxed a couple of thousand people, in a…