About a year ago, the US experienced an INSURRECTION, right?
An insurrection is a riot, revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or a government.
Insurrectionist holding a souvenir lectern whilst remaining inside the maroon velvet ropes in the Statuary Hall of the US Capitol.
Did the events of 6 January 2020 constitute an insurrection? It depends upon whom you ask. Continue reading
Today your Big Red Car sits down with Year 2021 to discuss its last day of existence.
Between you and me, Year 2021 looks a little green around the gills and shows a lot of wear-and-tear — what might be called “ridden hard and put up wet.” Continue reading
I am hereby declaring the Year 2021 to be over. It has been a terrible year surpassing 2020 which was a bloody hard act to follow.
I am also declaring that the Year 2022 has begun. Today is January -6, 2022, rather than 26 December 2021. It is still Sunday.
Good riddance, you miserable, worthless, destructive year. I want to be the first person to write your obituary and to throw dirt on your casket.
I think everyone in the United States understands we have entered a period of increasing prices — inflation. Nobody thinks it is actually going to be transitory.
Even the Biden admin says it’s going to be here through the end of 2023 after suggesting it would magically disappear by the end of 2021. Nay, not so.
Those who are students of the economy will fairly point at the extraordinarily naïve energy policy actions of the Biden admin as a trigger point or at least a milestone.
Nobody has missed that the price of gasoline has doubled since Joe Biden took office.
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The United States is approximately 18.5% Hispanic while America is 13.4% black.
The Hispanic vote has typically been much heavier on the Democrat side than the Republicans, but this is changing.
Here, dear reader, is how it is changing:
1. In the 2016 Presidential election, Hispanics voted 66% for Hillary Clinton and 28% for Donald Trump.
I stumbled on an interesting study recently. It goes like this —
College students who would not “go out on a date with” someone who voted for the opposing Presidential candidate?
Democrats – 71%
Republicans – 31%
Women – 59%
Men – 33%
College students who would not “shop at or support a business of” someone who voted for the opposing Presidential candidate? Continue reading
Eighty years ago today, the Empire of Japan unleashed an unprovoked attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on a clear Sunday morning whilst soldiers and sailors innocently ate breakfast, prepared for church, raised the flag, and went about their business.
Two waves of Japanese bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters — 353 in all — sent America’s Pacific fleet to the bottom of the mud, killing 2,403 Americans and dragging America into a world war.
The battleship Arizona — sunk, total loss, 1,177 KIA, remains sunk at Pearl Harbor;
The battleship California — sunk, refloated, returned to service February 1944;
The battleship Maryland — damaged by direct hits, returned to service February 1942;
The battleship Nevada — managed to get underway, beached itself to avoid clogging up the main entrance to Pearl, sunk, decommissioned in 1946, shipped to Bikini Atoll as a target ship for nuclear weapons tests, sunk by Naval gunfire in 1948;
The battleship Oklahoma — sunk, total loss, never repaired;
The battleship Pennsylvania — damaged by bombs while in drydock, returned to service March 1942;
The battleship Tennessee — minor damage, repaired and returned to the fleet in February 1942;
The battleship Utah — capsized, never repaired, remains at Pearl Harbor (the Utah is often overlooked as it was not moored on Battleship Row, but was at anchor off Ford Island after returning to Pearl following gunnery exercises); and,
The battleship West Virginia — sunk, refloated, returned to service July 1944. Continue reading
Being a Supreme Court Justice seems like a good gig. Full disclosure: I have never been a Supreme Court though I once met John Roberts in the bar of the Old Edwards Inn in Highlands, NC and chatted with him amiably about local fly fishing. He had two enormous US Marshalls guarding him, both of whom could have started for the Dallas Cowboys. For the record, he sat down next to me and initiated the conversation. Looked lonely with a sunburn.
You are appointed for life, you work in a nice building with great parking and security, they provide you with clerks to write the opinions, you can wear anything you want under your robe, they give you free latte, and they have unlimited M & M’s in the kitchen. [Associate Justice Sotomayer refuses to eat the yellow ones.]
Different set of Supremes than the group that sang, Stop in the Name of Love, Back in My Arms Again, and I Hear a Symphony.
What’s not to like? Continue reading
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