If you think today’s entry is about the squabbles between the White House and Pope Leo XIV, you are half right. To paraphrase Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent assessment of the relationship between modernity and the founding documents, the Pope may be new but the White House remains the same. In this case, “Pope” refers … Read more
This morning’s New York Times included a guest essay by retired marine general and former commander of the U.S. Central Command Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. In “Iran Got Trump All Wrong,” McKenzie lauds Donald Trump’s use of U.S. military power as an effective tool for tempering the influence and geopolitical agenda of the Iranian Islamic … Read more
I want you to look at him in all of his glory: “Larry the Liquidator.” The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people’s money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. … Read more
Let’s go to the video tape! ~Warner Wolf/Sportscaster Two days ago, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the state’s attorney general was reopening an investigation into potential sex trafficking and other illegal activity at Zorro Ranch, the 7,560 acre property Jeffrey Epstein purchased in 1993 from then New Mexico governor Bruce King. This latest … Read more
