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The Kennedy Effect on Food

It’s been just over two weeks since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and already some companies are adopting policy recommendations aligned with the MAHA agenda.

In what might be the biggest shift yet, the CEO of Chicago-based Mondelez International, Dirk van de Put, announced the food conglomerate would begin to use European recipes for its U.S. based products. Mondelez is one of the largest snack companies in the world,producing popular ...

Pentagon Döstädning: A Good Idea

Trump has proposed that the United States, China, and Russia cut their defense budgets by half.  If the administration pulls the trigger – death cleaning the Pentagon – most Americans won’t notice and all will benefit.

Swedish death cleaning – döstädning – is about getting one’s house in order, in preparation for handing over what has been accumulated to the next generation.  The Pentagon was finished in 1943, apparently as a big place to run the war.  Less than two years later it became a big p...

Modern Times and Ancient Truths

Eighty-nine years ago this month, the film Modern Times, starring Charlie Chaplin, was released. Considered one of the greatest movies ever, it was a comedic but savage critique of industrial capitalism and a prescient indictment of the alienated modern life to come, as Chaplin’s character, the Little Tramp, worked on an assembly line where he suffered a nervous breakdown from the stress and repetitive nature of the work.

But the film ends on a hopeful note, as the Little Tramp and his beloved E...

Population Bomb; Hear It Exploding?

Pestilence, Famine, War and Death; the Apocalyptic Horsemen of prophecy gallop over the planet; a purely predictable downside result of population ecology!
….Or we can just pretend that technology will save us, that food and water will simply fall from the cloud, or that our soulless selfish elites have not been working for decades to dispose of billions of deplorables?

Lessons from the Wild

Look at animal populations that outgrow available food supplies and lose the predator/prey balance.

The ...

EU/NATO Keeps Poking the Bear, Still Wants Troops in Ukraine

UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer is looking to pitch the plan to Donald Trump, masking it under the “readiness to deploy British troops as a security guarantee for a free, sovereign and democratic Ukraine”. However, as Moscow is perfectly clear that it won’t tolerate any NATO occupation forces, this proposal makes no sense – unless Starmer is trying everything in his power to sabotage an actual peace deal, just like Boris Johnson did back in 2022.

As the strategic irrelevance of the dying European...

Confessions of a Catholic Fundamentalist

Apparently, I’m a Catholic fundamentalist.

At least, that’s the assessment of Boston College theology professor Fr. Mark S. Massa, S.J. In his recent book Catholic Fundamentalism in America (Oxford University Press), Massa warns of the threat of Catholic fundamentalists, who “combine a sectarian understanding of religion with an aggressive anti-progressive stance.” He highlights in particular seven individuals and movements “that embody the Catholic fundamentalist impulse,” and one of those case...

The Left Has Left the Building

The new, “Woke” Left has entirely taken over my old party, the Democrats. There literally isn’t a single Democratic Party elected official who is redeemable in the least. They are all irrational devotees of Identity Politics, where emotion rules instead of reason. They are authoritarians in pink gloves, tattoos, and multi-colored hair.

In 1975, at about the time of my political awakening, there were a lot of younger Democrats in Congress, elected in a post-Watergate tidal wave. The Freedom of In...

In Science We Trust

I feel constrained to continue the theme of what I wrote in this column last week. Most Americans are not paying attention (there’s nothing new about that, of course), but this is especially true of political conservatives and religious evangelicals. But the impending introduction of Elon Musk’s technocratic-dominated governmental system being launched under Donald Trump is more dangerous than almost any of us realize.

I am going to refer often to a fascinating treatise—with the title that I bor...

Is The Stage Being Set for Damascus To Be Utterly Destroyed and Turned Into a Heap of Ruins?

The Sunni radicals that have taken over Syria are demanding that all Israeli forces must leave Syrian territory.  On the other side, the IDF is hammering military targets in southern Syria with a blistering wave of airstrikes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that any military forces aligned with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will not be allowed south of Damascus.  Do you understand what this means?  It means that Damascus is now right on the front lines of a conflict between Israel ...

The Funeral That Sealed Hezbollah’s Unbreakable Covenant

BEIRUT – It’s about 1:30 pm on Sunday, 23 February. Inside Beirut’s vast Sports City Stadium, at least 100,000 people clad in black and draped in yellow resistance flags pay their respects as the caskets of the late Hezbollah secretary-generals Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine begin to make a slow turn around the arena.

Suddenly a triangular formation of Israeli F-15 and F-35 fighter jets pierce the skies, buzzing the stadium as low as aeronautically possible. In any other nation, on such ...