Category: Government (Page 18 of 34)

Arctic Analysis

March 2, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I am always going to click on an article that sounds like the name of a Tom Clancy novel. This article opens with a photo of a submarine conning tower jutting through the ice. There are a few other nice photos and what seems to be a deep analysis of the geopolitics of the Arctic.

I don’t know anything about the organization, IM, that posted the article, but it seems balanced and informative. I only read a bit of it, was in over my head, and Sparky wants to go outside.

Let me know if it’s worth reading.

Foreign trade by state.

February 28, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

With foreign trade and tariffs in the news, that map of Top Import Partner of Every U.S. State is a little bit interesting.

Everyone is being manipulated.

February 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The Manipulation Machine

We are being manipulated. We have always been manipulated, but in the past decade or so, it’s been more obvious. How does something like the George Floyd case get world-wide attention? Yeah, the incident is terrible, but in a country of 350 million people, all sorts of things happen all the time.

Lamentations of their women.

February 26, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

NYT: Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Commie Libs’

Michelle Goldberg, the author of this opinion piece, doesn’t understand how much we enjoy this article. It reminds me of that famous dialogue from the movie, Conan the Barbarian.

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

Michelle’s column is all lamentations, and it is good.

Trump’s great story about meeting the new chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

February 22, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 1 Comment

Trump nominates Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine for Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan ‘Razin’ Caine may or may not be the right person to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Trump tells a great story about meeting Caine in Iraq.

Audit everything

February 21, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The last time Fort Knox was audited, was in 1974.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there is an audit every year

Internal and external audits aren’t the same thing, but corporate media won’t explain that. Who cares? Nobody trusts the government, so audit everything and report the results.

Regular guy is now running the Social Security Administration.

February 21, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Worker Removed for Aiding DOGE Is Made Social Security Boss Within Days

Such a great story.

Down with democracy.

February 20, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

This is old news, but it’s been bugging me.

The UK government is all mixed up.

February 19, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I’m the abortion campaigner name-checked by JD Vance.

It’s really disappointing to see how the UK government has deteriorated.

Progressives are cool with censorship.

February 18, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 1 Comment

CBS host blasted for ‘bonkers’ claim that Nazi Germany ‘weaponized’ free speech

This is a minor incident that will circulate on social media as a meme. A CBS journalist was talking to Marco Rubio about a speech JD Vance made at the Munich Security Council.

Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,

The CBS journalist was making the case that freedom and civil liberties were a tool of the Nazi Party.

Liberals never liked the 2^nd Amendment, Progressives don’t like the 1^st Amendment either. The Democratic Party endorses censorship as long as they are the authoritarians.