The Well Run Dry

Conversations between some people can seem a lot like beating a dead horse over and over again until the horse has been turned into equine h...

2024 Note: Please forgive the pro-Russian bias in the 2016 version of this post.  It has turned out that Russia has proven itself to be a na...

It's been interesting to read much of what has been written within the last three months about Syria and the Western "fight against...

Once again, I find myself writing about a gruesome subject, in the aftermath of the mass shooting in San Bernardino.  I certainly do not wis...

My intuition was piqued after a Turkish Air Force F-16 shot down a Russian fighter-bomber within Syrian airspace.  As I read about the Turk...

After yesterday's post, I thought about further information on the Paris attacks.  This was information I had not considered while writi...

A co-worker ran into me yesterday afternoon in the office kitchen. “Did you hear what happened in Paris?,” he gravely asked. “I can't he...

Many Europeans are becoming quite upset at the refugee crisis in Europe.  There is increasingly violent rhetoric being directed against the ...

Many of you may not know this, but the United States has resumed combat operations in Iraq .  It seems that the US is deathly afraid that it...

The Russian military intervention in Syria has produced a lot of interesting fallout.  It is now becoming clear that the militants whom Russ...

Update - 9 March 2020: This post should be taken with a grain of salt.  I wrote it during a time in which most of the West was being flood...

Here's an article on another blog which illustrate the point I made in my last post, namely, that the United States is beginning to reap...

As I have watched the unfolding events in Greece over the last several weeks, I've had a strong sense of deja vu .  Consider the traject...

To summarize last week's post, present-day American narcissism stands on the following legs: A 1700-year legacy of the preachin...

ISIS has been in the news a lot lately. I don't have a lot of time to search out links, but I will give a summary of my ...

I've been reading a lot lately about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD for short. My reasons for doing so involv...

Our knowledge of history is under threat in the United States – especially our accurate knowledge of recent history. An accurate knowled...