Category: History

While the extreme right and MAGA nothinks celebrate today’s Supreme Court ruling, they keep overlooking one significant item. Donald Trump is not the current president and if this ruling applies to the Trump presidency, it applies to every presidency. And if they follow the Yellow Brick to their OZ, that…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson went to Columbia University to see what all the brouhaha over the Gaza protests is about and was unsurprisingly (at least to this writer) not well received. He went on and suggested that he would demand that President Joe Biden call up the National…

These two photos were shared with me on social media. And these are only two of the many photos that were shared but they mean something right now and one means something more to me. But these photos are from the museum at Bastogne, Belgium. The Siege of Bastogne was…

Of course I realize that the State of the Union speech has morphed far beyond a discussion of the actual state of the union into political posturing, particularly when an incumbent is in re-election mode. So the bluster and direct talk from President Biden wasn’t unexpected. BUT: That doesn’t mean…

Precisely. ^^stolen from social media

This is just an update from a previous post to move the date to 2024. But the sentiment is unchanged. Sadly the war in Ukraine is still hot and if not for western support, Putin’s neo-Soviet forces would be knocking on Poland’s and Finland’s borders. Yet traitors in our midst…

The above quote is from British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on September 30, 1938 after co-signing the Munich Agreement allowing Nazi annexation of the Czechoslovakian area known as the Sudetenland. We know how well that went. But in case you have forgotten: And just to keep it real, this past…

After Neville Chamberlain and the West looked the other way to the intentions of Adolph Hitler and his expansionist moves, on this date in 1939 Poland surrendered after being invaded by the Nazis and the Red Army. This effectively started World War II. Let’s not repeat history and let Ukraine…