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The U.S. recently announced it would be sending 31 M-1 Abrams tanks into the war in Ukraine. This is merely the latest in a series of war material and funding the U.S. has provided to Ukraine over the past eleven months.
If the thought of a cashless society, government-issued digital currency, and the specter of some form of mandated medical passport cause you some concern, you have every right. Whether these concepts are currently on your personal radar screens, they will soon become an imperative for us all.
“For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
It turns out the pandemic-driven Zoom classrooms which too many teachers and their unions heartily embraced, and were too reluctant to surrender, released an evil genie – a truth which most assuredly cannot be returned to its bottle.
Five years ago, the huge and sprawling Hearst Media corporation established Hearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG) to acquire CT media properties. HCMG now owns nine daily newspapers, 13 weekly papers and CT Magazine.
While British Prime Minister Truss’s astonishingly rapid rise and fall is most certainly a personal tragedy and a national political embarrassment, it may also be the most portentous warning to the international economic system since the great credit freeze of August 2007.
Jim Himes, the House Representative for CT-4, goes far out of his way to pose and present himself as a ‘moderate’ to his constituents here in Fairfield County. Conventional wisdom for the past couple of decades tells us that the district has shifted from historically Republican to a ‘swing district.’ Therefore, Mr. Himes takes pains to consistently tell us he is a Moderate, aligned with the views and dynamics of his district.
Are events over the past decade revealing one of the most ingenious geopolitical reversals of position and fortune in modern history? In just fifty years, have the Chinese, under Communist rule, gone from the world of rickshaws and bicycles which greeted Nixon and Kissinger in 1972, to the putative masters of the relationship?
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut has received some notoriety this week for his exuberant appearance at the Connecticut People’s World Committee’s celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA.
As the events precipitated by the Pandemic have unfolded over the past six months, their impact on our culture, the economy, and politics have converged with a Seventh Crisis already underway in America.
With the pace quickening, in a blink, our clock has literally skipped four and has struck pandemonium. As May turned to June with red states reopening apace and blue states slow-walking the process, we were suddenly jolted from diminishing concerns regarding the Pandemic to staring kinetic Marxism straight in the face.
To quote a historical figure who will be nameless here: “There are decades when nothing happens; and then there are weeks when decades happen.” As many of us can sense, we may well be in such times.
As our metaphorical pandemic clock strikes two it seems the oxygen-breathing people of the country have caught a whiff of overkill in the air. Boat owners in Michigan are told sailboats are approved on the lake, while motorboats are not. Vermonters are told books and seeds are “non-essential” items and may not be purchased, even while sitting right there on the shelves.
It’s still March and feeling like we’ve been cooped up forever, but we’re in only the first tick of a Wuhan Virus pandemic clock destined to possibly tick on for decades. In comparison to the multiple social, economic, geopolitical, and military impacts of 9-11, we are only at the equivalent point in time of impact of the second plane on the World Trade Center.
In the wake of both the recent SCOTUS ruling on Affirmative Action and the Independence Day celebration of our nation’s founding, we now return to our current “times that try men’s souls.”
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