Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, and adventurer traveled from Europe to Asia between 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years, and whose Il Milione (“The Million”) known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo (considered a classic in travel literature)...
Recent Commentaries
Legerdemain & the Left
Professional magicians have long known that distracting an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. But magicians aren’t the only ones where legerdemain is critical to fooling people—left wing politicians are also masters of distraction. A magician must...
Thoughts, Observations & What Not
Why is it that you’ll never see a barfight between two guys drinking Chardonnay? What people want most from government is to live their lives with a degree of comfort, a feeling of security, and the belief they can trust the government to function in a reasonable...
Truly Frightening
Many Americans like me fear we are losing the country we grew up in and had hoped or perhaps even assumed that we would pass on to our children, who would in turn pass it on to their children and grandchildren. And there is no better illustration of just how we’re...
You knew it was coming
Delegates from nearly 200 Paris Climate Accord signatories kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to “global warming.” According to the U.N. press release the agreement...
A few thoughts on tomorrow
Has anyone noticed that during the recent campaigning whenever democrat candidates talked about their accomplishments, they always referred to the legislation they’ve passed by their high sounding but misleading names, i.e., the Inflation Reduction Act that doesn't...
The All-Time Greatest Puzzle
To get our mind off of the election I thought we might have some fun today by offering a challenge to my blog readers - below is arguably the all-time greatest word puzzle ever, now there are no catches to this, it's an exercise in pure logic and I'll offer one hint...
The democrats are desperate
Last night I was watching a clip from one of Barack Obama's campaign stops as he tries to pull the democrats' chestnuts out of the fire, wherein he told the adoring crowd that if elected, republicans would take away their Social Security. But what the chosen one...
Lies, lies and more lies
When I look at today’s political scene, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The lies, deceit and misinformation coming from the left is beyond the pale from the Russian collusion hoax to the notion that Vladimir Putin is the cause of our inflation. However, there...
A Fool’s Errand
a/ˈfo͞olz ˌerənd/ - a task or activity that has no hope of success You cannot argue with someone whose thinking is predicated on a bumper-sticker slogan, i.e., “95% of UN scientists agree that…” the reliable fallback position of climate activists who routinely...