“I’ll be your huckleberry.” – Doc Holiday to Johnny Ringo A huckleberry, on the hoof, is a midnight blue, bush-born berry, not unlike the elderberry or blueberry. The huckleberry has ten ...
“He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.” ― Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin once claimed that the Ru...
https://ljpkjsah.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/normalizing-grotesque/
“The most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” – Orwell We hear much these days about paradigm shifts and resets. Much of the chat comes from crucibles like the Wo...
No one abuses or misuses language better than a politician, except maybe a political “scientist.” Calling the study of politics, science, is in itself more than a bit of a reach. Serious stu...
https://ljpkjsah.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/jawboning-the-jihad/
The greater our wealth, the greater our dangers.” – Aristotle The only bet more speculative than assessing personal motives might be a bet on conventional wisdom, issues like national securit...
“Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” – Stevenson Not long ago, the adjective “bully” meant superb or wonderful. Indeed, Teddy Roosevelt coined the phrase ...
“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.” – Adam Smith There’s probably nothing more annoying than listening to political drones preach on some social issue clea...
“My definition of a man’s man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.” – Kurt Vonnegut Reality is often stranger than fiction. A few day...
https://ljpkjsah.wordpress.com/2021/11/22/gunfight-at-the-pc-coral/
Charlie Foxtrot on the E-Ring “The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.” – Ge...
https://ljpkjsah.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/the-biden-skedaddle/
Black victims and white guilt now meet at the merge of journalism and the academy; nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of Nikole Hannah-Jones and the so-called 1619 Project, a clever p...
https://ljpkjsah.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/gaslighting-at-the-academy/