Crude Unglued
The big news in the financial world for the past few months has been the dramatic drop in oil prices. Since June oil has lost nearly 50% of its value and is now at a price not seen in over five years...
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Ukraine’s Viking Revival
When I wrote “The Ukraine Crisis — Some Background and Thoughts” back in February 28, 2014. I expected the Russian – Ukraine War in the Donbass to be headline news in the American media. It turned...
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History Friday — MacArthur’s High Tech Radar Commandos
One of the more frustrating things in dealing with General Douglas MacArthur’s World war 2 fighting style was how many ‘will of the wisp’ intelligence, logistical and special forces operations he...
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History Friday — MacArthur’s 7th Fleet Guerilla Support Group
When I started writing my “History Friday” columns, one of my objectives was to explore the “military historical narratives” around General Douglas MacArthur, so I could write with a better...
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So: how does it feel at World’s End?
[ Reposted from Zenpundit ICYMI there — on conveying the experience of the eschatological — on the way to better understanding the allure of IS ] . And the fifth Angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a...
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History Week End — Who Were Those Guys? Section 22, GHQ, SWPA as of Oct 1944
One of the most frustrating things in researching General Douglas MacArthur’s World War 2 fighting style is dealing with the mayfly like life of the many logistical and intelligence organizations his...
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History Weekend — MacArthur’s Parachute Resupply in the S.W. Pacific
When I started writing my History columns here on Chicago Boyz, one of my objectives was to explore the “military historical narratives” around General Douglas MacArthur, so I could write with a better...
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History Friday — MacArthur’s 5th Air Force Indian Code Talkers
The amazing thing about General MacArthur’s South West Pacific Area (SWPA) Theater is how amazingly bad the histories on it are. The place spun off more under or unreported “will-o-the-wisp” logistical...
View ArticleWar in Heaven at Art of Future Warfare
My science fiction piece, War in Heaven, was a finalist in the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare contest. You can read it here: http://artoffuturewarfare.org/2015/04/war-in-heaven/ A taste...
View ArticleOne Observation, Another Perspective
Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. Coke: Debate in the Commons (1628-05-17). A Catholic perspective.
View ArticleI’m thankful for Franklin Roosevelt
It’s hard for me to believe but I’ve finally found a reason to be thankful for FDR. Were it not for him there would not be a 22nd Amendment. And were there no 22nd Amendment, Obama would be running...
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Greek Idylls – Part 4
(And the last of my reminiscence of living in Athens from 1983 to 1985) This is the conversation I had many times, on my days off while we were in Athens, when we would be sightseeing here and there,...
View ArticleOn the Outside of the Hugos, Looking In
The 2015 Hugo awards were given out over last weekend, at Worldcon in Spokane, and the meltdown is ongoing. The commentary on this at the follow-up post at According to Hoyt has gone over 1,000...
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Two Views of Immigration
Mary Antin was a Russian Jewish immigrant who came to the US with her family in 1894, at the age of thirteen. I briefly reviewed her 1912 book, The Promised Land, here. Browsing through a used...
View ArticleGermany’s Aims
Nato has failed. Lord Ismay, first Secretary General for Nato famously said that its purpose was to keep the Germans down, the Americans in and the Russians out. The Russians, in typically boorish...
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The Coming Impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
According to a number of right wing media sites — Glenn Beck’s “The Blaze”, Gateway Pundit, True Pundit among others — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is going to face a House authorizing vote...
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The Secret War between Russia and Iran’s Quds Force in Syria
There appears to be an on-going, unofficial, and secret war in Syria between Putin’s Russia and the Iranian Republican Guard Corps’ Quds Force involving do it yourself drones in the hands of Syrian...
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COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 Update 2-23-2020 — When the “New Versailles Class” Meets...
The themes of this update will be on issues of COVID-19 spread, testing, public health institutional credibility, some e-mails evaluating the CDC and our elites, and my personal analysis of same after...
View ArticleTexas Aggie Doctor Reports — Clinical Pearls Covid 19 for ER practitioners
The following information is from a front line ER doctor using the handle of ‘nawlinsag’ on a Texas Aggie web site. I’ve included the link below. I’ve also included the complete text of his post in...
View ArticleSARS-CoV2/COVID-19 Update, Easter 2020 edition
There are lots of hopeful reports — despite the USA COVID-19 infections being over 1/2 million and the total deaths of over 20,000 people — that the pandemic will soon be “Over.” This is fantasy...
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