Paul McCartney recently released the last Beatles song, and the Rolling Stones topped the charts with their new album. We tangle with Iran, and then there are sudden uprisings in Beirut. Just how far back did we set the clocks last weekend?
With death tolls in conflicts around the world sometimes reaching the level of a weekend in Chicago or Atlanta, many news items have fallen through the cracks. As Biden perhaps "wags the dog" with the Middle East and Ukraine, other things are going on. I offer summaries of a few:
The more evolved segment of the Republican Party, led by us few, small-"l" libertarians, has the GOP heading in the right direction on wars. Tired of endless wars with no objective or quantifiable outcome, in countries that hate us, we see foreign entanglements in a more jaundiced light.
As I watched rockets flying at each other, "devout" Muslims attacking the Jewish people and then vice versa, I thought to myself, "Yet another display of very religious people just being religious."
Everyone loves to visit our nation's capital in Washington, D.C. Some 1.2 million visitors go through the White House each year. The only other U.S. attraction with more annual visitors is our Rio Grande River.
I attended the Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club near Rome with some old friends to witness the biennial men's golf matchup that pits the United States' best players against the whole of Europe.
As I have said over the years, I am not at all concerned about a federal government shutdown. My worry is that it might open back up again.
U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, turned heads recently.
Since my looming family reunion will be the first one without our beloved Druncle Mac, I thought it would be nice to remember him and revisit his life lessons.
Even for the left, it is getting harder to ignore the aging of Joe Biden that is happening before our eyes.
