Author Archives: Mike

Below, Sir, is part of Mr. Lincoln’s Proclamation of 15 April 1861. In it, Lincoln is responding to the armed rebellion that Confederate President Jefferson Davis had initiated by bombarding Fort Sumter (12-13 April 1861). By then, seven southern states … Continue reading →

Mr. President, what possible reason is there not to immediately attack the rioters who are sacking multiple American cities? The rioters do not give a good damn about Mr. Floyd, who is reported to have died at the hands of … Continue reading →

  Please see: https://reason.com/2020/05/27/nursing-homes-account-for-42-percent-of-americas-covid-19-fatalities/ It is a superbly detailed and important piece. I wrote and published a little longer piece on the article earlier today, but it has disappeared from sight. Coincidence I suppose.

Well, it seems the Chinese Virus has given Democratic governors a splendid opportunity to try out the signature part of the Obama’s healthcare program, the death panels. Around the country, these governors – with Andrew Cuomo of New York so … Continue reading →

As noted here previously, Godaddy deleted this blog in, I think,  July, 2018. It was a summary execution, simply a note that said “You’re done and there is no appeal.” Most of the finished pieces from the blog did not … Continue reading →

Forty-five years ago, when I was an undergraduate, I read a book called Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers, by a fine historian named Adrienne Koch. The book was excellent, then and now, and there was one passage in Professor … Continue reading →

I have seen the first few episodes of a television drama series called “World on Fire”. Those episodes covered the second Great War’s first year and a bit more. It is a pretty interesting series, and surely worth seeing. One … Continue reading →

One of the major stories coming from the Chinese Virus drama is the dysfunction of American federalism. Woodrow Wilson’s administration began the process of accumulating power at the expense of state governments, and Franklin Roosevelt added to the theft by … Continue reading →

–Curtain Goes Up –-ACT I: Okay, many millions of Americans are unemployed. What do they need? They need jobs. Who are the biggest employers in the United States? Small businesses. Trump’s administration funded small businesses to the tune of $350 … Continue reading →

This piece is a rumination on hatred and its sources. Hatred, of course, is just one of a long list of human emotions, feelings, or thought processes that are hard-wired in all people and so are unable to be eradicated. … Continue reading →