That Was Then There was a time when the nations of the world at least paid lip service to the idea that national borders were sacrosanct. Any intrusion into another country’s territory was an act of war. Of course, there was a huge black market in revolutionaries, terrorists, and other insurgents, but while many of…
Month: October 2025
Politics
Trump Doesn’t Want Peace
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Here are several bits of analysis that reveal what’s going on behind the scenes at the White House these days. First, there was a deal on the table from early in the war, set out by Biden. At that time, Netanyahu wasn’t interested. Biden was an enlightened democratic leader. He had no chance of securing…
Social Commentary
Science Has Done Its Share of Evil
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There is a lot of well-deserved blaming going on regarding the activities of various church groups in the last couple of centuries. This has resulted in a serious swing of the us-against-them pendulum towards the idea that religion is evil and science is the cat’s pajama’s. Not so Fast, Folks We need to take another…
Social Commentary
Things We Can’t Seem to Fix
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No matter how much and how fast our societies are developing, the route to democracy is a slow and painful one, and there are specific problems that nobody ever manages to solve. The Auditor General’s Report. No matter how many times these talented people give their opinions at no matter what level of government, everybody…