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2022
Negev Summit in Israel; two ISIS terror attacks in two days; fallout of Biden gaffe machine continuesoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2022
Biden goes off-script on Ukraine; military expert: Russia no more capable of invading NATO than Mars; has the tank seen its best days?original ↗
27 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022
Ukraine on the counter-offensive? Hunter Biden thrown off the troika? A-list musicians lose lucrative oligarch gigsoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2022
Ukraine: “The drone era has arrived”; the price of “bling over basics” for the Russian armyoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2022
Putin’s former superior officer on Putin; Russian army relying on Ukrainian cell phone network; American coulrocracyoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2022
Russian state media accidentally releases 9,861 KIA toll in Ukraine, then airbrushes; rumors of a possible Kremlin coup – disinformation or real; even CNN sees red wave coming in US midterms; Coulrocracy (=government by clowns)original ↗
22 Mar 2022
Ukraine, vernal equinox edition: David Petraeus sees a “stalemate”; revealing 2018 lecture by Finnish intelligence colonel on Russiaoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2022
Ukraine: is Putin really that displeased? Two contrasting takes; Elon Musk’s Starlink and its role in the drone waroriginal ↗
20 Mar 2022
So how useful would MiG-29s be to Ukraine? Also: the pretzel logic behind the Iran deal; Rasmussen poll predicts rout comingoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Adam Neely on upper extension chords (with popular song examples)original ↗
19 Mar 2022
Unintentional Purim jokes: Putin compares West to Nazi Germany pre-WW II; deep thoughts from Nancy Pelosioriginal ↗
17 Mar 2022
16 Mar 2022
Ukraine, Fast of Esther edition: 1956 Hungarian invasion as foreshadowing; Poland wants NATO humanitarian mission, while Germany rules out military NATO-Russia confrontation; Zelensky’s address to US Congressoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2022
Ukraine war, Ides of March edition: metal prices rising faster than oil prices; China denies claim of Russian request for aid; aid requested from China included MREs (¿Qué? Chto? Come again?)original ↗
15 Mar 2022
Kamala Harris implies Ukraine is a NATO member (video); official transcript airbrushed; new horizons in censorshiporiginal ↗
14 Mar 2022
Is Russia going for broke in Ukraine? Also, Stephen Kotkin and Francis Fukuyama on the situation; DNC midterm strategy: blame Putin for inflation, not Biden’s incompetenceoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2022
The inaugural chess-playing pigeon award goes to “The View”; Marlène Laruelle on Alexandr Dugin, Putin’s alleged philosophical inspiration; cracks in the Kremlin propaganda wall?original ↗
12 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022
Niall Ferguson on current Ukraine events; where it comes to “denazification”, Putin had better sweep in front of his own doorsteporiginal ↗
11 Mar 2022
Ukraine, and the Georgian past as prologue; negotiations in progress; another angle on Putin’s behavior; Kamil Galeev on the Russian economyoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2022
Ukraine war: Russia’s “Potemkin army”; Saudis, UAE decline Biden’s phone calls; Hannity: “the US is in deep Schiff”original ↗
9 Mar 2022
Ukraine war, Day 13: Russian independent journalist interviewed by Der Spiegel about state censorshiporiginal ↗
8 Mar 2022
Ukraine: Israel’s Naftali Bennett trying to mediate; logistical shambles; a look at the Javelin; a win-win for Xi Jinping?original ↗
6 Mar 2022
5 Mar 2022
Ukraine, fog of war edition: assassination of Pres. Zelensky thwarted, Russian general killed; Stephen Kotkin answers five questionsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022
Ukraine fighting day 3: three ways in which the US could hurt Putin without sending one soldieroriginal ↗
26 Feb 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Tatiana Nikolayeva plays J. S. Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier”, books I and IIoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2022
Day 2 of Ukraine invasion: Konstantin Kissin of Triggernometry; some background on Ukraine itselforiginal ↗
25 Feb 2022
Looking around: Putin invades Donbass region; Poutine Trudeau suspends emergency act rather than suffer defeat in Senate?original ↗
24 Feb 2022
Sabbath musical delight: J. P. Rameau, “The Arts and the Hours” (arranged and performed by Vikingur Olafsson)original ↗
19 Feb 2022
Looking around: Narcissus Castreau; wagging the dog on Ukraine?; Bennett state visit to Baḥrain; Nixon was a choirboy compared to Hillaryoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2022
COVID mini-update, Valentine’s Day edition: Ontario drops mandates effective March 1; Douglas Murray in the Telegraph on New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, “performative empathy”, and Justin Brandeau; trucker solidarity demonstration in Israeloriginal ↗
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022
Facebook now “fact-checks” for “misinformation” the “news blog” known as the British Medical Journaloriginal ↗
7 Feb 2022
Looking around: Facebook loses almost quarter trillion (!) valuation in a single day; five questions for Stephen Kotkinoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2022
Here, there, and everywhere: Canadian fake news; behind sudden resignation of CNN CEO; Chicago BLM protection money; percussive sublimation into SCOTUS; Yet another Vitamin D and COVID studyoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2022
COVID19 mini-update, Groundhog Day edition: Israel past the omicron hump, phasing out Green Pass; US cases declining; Denmark dropping all COVID restrictionsoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2022
Here, there, and everywhere, video edition: Thomas Sowell on geography; Rhett Shull on old music driving out new; history of American Jews in the Colonial eraoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2022
Strange new respect for Israel in unexpected quarters: Ukraine, Greece; Amnesia [sic] International stuck on stale narratives while Arab states start moving onoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2022
Black Biden voter explains why he “walked away” from Biden and D party; former Physician to the President about Biden’s cognitive fitness;original ↗
30 Jan 2022
Sabbath musical delight: Mozart, Clarinet Concerto K.622; some myths in the play and movie “Amadeus”original ↗
29 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022
Here, there, and everywhere: Breyer to retire from SCOTUS; oligarchy with democratic trappings; Nicholas Wade on COVID origins; and moreoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2022
Anti-Asian admission discrimination cases against Harvard, UNC before the US Supreme Courtoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2022
Looking around: omicron sitrep in Israel; Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on Putin’s game in Ukraineoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2022
22 Jan 2022
Jordan Peterson resigns from tenured professorship at U. Of Toronto: blistering resignation letter in National Postoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2022
Looking around: Xi gets what Xi wants; Israel breaks omicron records; Netanyahu plea bargain?; Andrew Roberts on America’s last kingoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2022
Ashkenazim and Sephardim? No, there’s more to the story — how about Yehudei Artzot ha-Islamoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022
Sabbath musical delight, with a smile: Weird Al Yankovic, “Craigslist” featuring Ray Manzarek of The Doorsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2022
Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: SCOTUS nixes OSHA vaccination mandate; Kirsten Synema nixes ending filibuster, meaning he cannot pass “ballot-stuffing for perpetual one-party rule” act; even WaPo cannot defend worst POTUS speech in 50 yearsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2022
COVID19 update: South Africa declares “end of pandemic phase”; have London case loads peaked?; sitrep from Israel; derpseals of the weekoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022
COVID19 micro-update: Australia, Israel sitreps, and three possible endgames: like seasonal flu, like dengue fever, or disappearingoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022
COVID19 micro-update: an emerging understanding of why omicron is so much milder than earlier variantsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022
COVID19 micro-update: (1) omicron infection protective against delta? (2) brief omicron sitreps from Belgium and Israeloriginal ↗
2 Jan 2022
2021
31 Dec 2021
Dr. John Campbell: “Omicron will finish this pandemic off, or at least change it into an endemic”original ↗
31 Dec 2021