Who Gives Two Hoots About the Houthis!

Who Gives Two Hoots About the Houthis!

by | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized

Yesterday we noted that the ascension to NATO of the Balkan Five (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania) and the Baltic Three (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) amounts to some kind of bad joke. Their combined active military forces total...

Progress toward Ending US Government Funding for NPR and PBS

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Uncategorized

On November 9, a few days after Donald Trump won election to return to the White House, I wrote an article titled “Defunding NPR.” In the article, I presented reasons why “a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for [Department of Government Efficiency...

Arrested And Deported For Exercising First Amendment Rights?

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Uncategorized

President Trump announced earlier in his second term that foreign students who engaged in illegal activity would be deported. Most people agreed with the policy. But then his Department of Homeland Security began showing up with masks on and in plainclothes to arrest...

A Brief History of the Freedom of Speech

by | Mar 27, 2025 | Uncategorized

“I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.”— Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists’ grievances with the British government. Notably absent were...