USA History

I do not recall ever seeing the Bunker Hill flag before. I understand the English flag in the upper-left-hand corner, but don't know what the tree means, nor the color. Perhaps, it is a take on the Union Jack. 

An interesting article on Donald Rumsfeld by Edward Luttwak. It shows how the elite work and what problems they can cause or make worse. The country took its eye off the ball with the failed Middle East policies pursued since 1991. For whatever reasons, Trump was trying to reverse this. 

Donald Rumsfeld

Same to all

While reading of Yoni Netanyahu, I came across this very interesting character who was Netanyahu's godfather. 


The godfather of the Israeli military

Yoni is worth remembering. So cool that you met him.

Brad,
My lovely wife was born on the 4th of July. Thus, she is an original Yankee Doodle dandy and it was her 70th birthday so all the fireworks were for her, at least that is what she told the grandchildren, only the 9 year old bought it. We awoke yesterday morning and the refrigerator, almost 19 years old, has decided to return to room temperature. So we spent the day unloading and transporting as much food as possible to her daughters house. Today we purchased a refrigerator that cost more than my first car and which will not be delivered until next week. 

I am coming to the conclusion that home appliances are scheduled to die on holidays. A few years ago it was the dryer--thanksgiving weekend. Before that it was the washer Easter weekend, and a hotter heater Christmas about 10 years ago. The simple things that save time and effort around the house are getting more expensive.

I concur with your thoughts about being around people. I have found myself becoming more recluse over the last 5 years or so. I no longer have any need to go on campus and frankly, the atmosphere is hostile to anyone expressing a conservative or libertarian philosophy that aggravates me so much that it is better for my heart to avoid this kind of upset. My peers in the history department have retired and moved to the country to play golf, a sport I could never get into. Mark Twain called it, "a good walk spoiled". 

Please give her my belated best wishes. 

Today in 1945, the Japanese Empire officially signed the terms of surrender to the Allies.

MacArthur and the Missouri

On September 2, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, which started the war which was ended on September 2, 1945.

Germany invades Poland        

The USA stood at the pinnacle of power twice. First, after the end of WWII at which time the USA shared power with the USSR. Second, after the fall of the USSR  in 1991 at which time the USA held a unique position in history as to its combination of relative power, absolute power and ability to project power around the world in a matter of days. No other country in history has come close to this combination. 

Sadly, our corrupt elites have thrown it away in a matter of three decades. Unbelievable. 

I just came across this piece which gives a good synopsis of the disaster our elites have occasioned on the rest of us since 9/11. I particularly like the fact that the writer points out the horror that is the PATRIOT ACT. I warned against this when it was first mentioned in Congress.  Of course, one little voice out in the sticks was not going to have any effect. The PATRIOT ACT and the Homeland Security Department are monsters which came out of the idiotic and irrational thinking of our elites. 


US$8 Trillion and counting  

Never forget that the lion's share of that money went back into the pockets of the military-industrial-financial-intelligence-state department complex. The U.S. Military forces make up less than 1% of Americans. All that money didn't go to the ground pounders.