Are You Ready for One Billion “Americans”?

In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA —…

Words Of Warning – The Saturday Round-up

Of note, there is currently a chemical emergency in Garden Grove, California.  Upwards to 40,000 people have been evacuated.  One L.A. TV Station is providing frequent updates, but they are not terribly informative.  The first article (first…

What If God Built The Fort?

General Patton quite famously said, “Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”  He was referring to the castle and latter day fortress (the Maginot line) of Europe.  Patton was, perhaps, the leading proponent of maneuver…

In The Mailbox: 05.22.26 : The Other McCain

Posted on | May 23, 2026 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOMDoug Ross: A Day With Alvin York in the Argonne…

Folly in the Seat of Wisdom

Reports out of New York say that the state’s Department of Health has issued warnings to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, whose order has, for over a century, run a hospice for patients dying of incurable cancer.  Indeed, the village where…