The Feel of a Real Newspaper
The Feel of a Real Newspaper
Newspapers have a smell. If you’re lucky enough to find a physical newspaper in our digital world, you’ll notice the smell first. Fresh newsprint paper. SoySeal ink. Still warm. It’s a unique scent. …READ MORE…
The Yellow Badge: History’s Favorite Tool for Picking on Jews
Most people think the Nazis came up with this little accessory of oppression, but, surprise! Humanity has been forcing Jews to dress differently for centuries. It’s not just a Nazi thing—it’s more like a historical tradition of “othering” dressed up as law. The Nazis were just the ones who made it globally infamous, but they were late to the party of discrimination. …READ MORE…
WATCH: California’s Insurance Crisis
As multiple wildfires damage tens of thousands of structures in Southern California, experts warn it could exacerbate the state’s already unstable insurance market. The Supreme Court clears the way for President-elect Trump to be sentenced in his hush money case. And in a show of unity, the country mourns former President Jimmy Carter. …WATCH HERE…
Becoming Like East Germany- No humor or smiles
Almost 20 years ago, I got a chance to go back to Germany. I hadn’t been there for 25 years prior, and now that the Iron Curtain was down, I planned to go into the former DDR… i.e. Communist East Germany. I had been there once before, in 1979, when the Army let me go to Berlin for a week. During that visit, a group of us spent one day in East Berlin, a so-called “show city” of the Communist world. There was one thing that really stood out in that visit…
… nobody smiled. …READ MORE…
Threat Deflation and Other Last-minute Gifts to China
Psychologically undermining US efforts to counter communist China
The Biden-Harris administration has been conducting what amounts to a scorched earth policysince Kamala Harris and the Democrats were routed by President Trump and the Republicans on Election Day 2024. Scorched earth refers to a military tactic of destroying everything that enables the enemy to wage war. Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz pointed out in 1832 in his treatise On War that war is the “continuation of politics by other means.” In this instance, the Democrats are engaged in political warfare and appear to be doing what they can to sabotage the second Trump presidency in ways similar to, but not matching, what they did during the first Trump presidency. …READ MORE…
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