Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

America’s political Gossip Sheet supplies more of the Kamala Harris political melodrama. One of Senile Old Joe’s advisors, on his VP pick, is former Senator Chris Dodd. Political sclerotics rule the roost! Poor Kamala f’d upped when she attacked Joe … Continue reading →

In the Catholic Tradition the search for heretics dates from its beginning.  The reader could profitably start her inquiry with James J. O’Donnell’s Augustine: A New Biography that provides a record of his campaigns against sects that he identified as … Continue reading →

Futurism is now in vogue, as a tool for Pundits to enliven their jejune commentaries, an ersatz touchstone predicated on the imagination, rather than demonstrable fact. Read Bret Stephens’ latest New York Times essay, as a necessary proof of the … Continue reading →

Headline:What Will a Post-Trump G.O.P. Look Like? Sub-headline: And consider, what will it take for the Republican Party to begin to heal itself? Whenever Mr. Stephens predicts the political future, its a signal, that he hasn’t got too much to … Continue reading →

Headline:US to pull nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany Sub-headline: Trump administration’s move set to exacerbate tensions within Nato … But critics have warned US withdrawal would undermine a strong symbol of Washington’s commitment to its European allies and embolden … Continue reading →

… ‘Given Mr. Trump’s epic blunders, inoffensiveness may be enough to propel the former vice president to the White House. But it’s a lot easier to be inoffensive when you’re a man.’ Eva Figes’ book was published in 1970: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-18207-7 … Continue reading →

Steph Umbert is a new name in the Neo-Conservative coterie , at least to me, presents his  ‘vision of the future’ garishly decorated, with the most bizarre iteration about the Post-Modern, since the American Intellectual Provincials ,George F. Will and … Continue reading →

Headline: Donald Trump’s little green men Sub-headline: US president wants to ignite a cultural war to save his re-election campaign Here is Mr. Luce’s clumsy attempt to make a usable political amalgam of Putin The Terrible/The New Cold War and Trump. … Continue reading →

You must grant, that Mr. Drost, doesn’t just know what the reactionary coterie’s of political actors, within both the Republican and New Democrat parties, are not thinking, because that endeavor might just trigger an inconvenient moral/ethical impulse, while strategizing for … Continue reading →

The New Cold War held aloft by a 55 page ‘report’ , with very impressive coterie, of the members in good standing, of the British National Security State. Instead of something even resembling ‘evidence’ ! In sum, a ‘Bill Attainder’ … Continue reading →