All Hail, Geezer! It has always been the old men who send the young off to war. They pump them full of hatred for an unfamiliar enemy, fuel their addiction to a love of country that blinds them to reality,…

Russia claims Volodymyr Zelensky is not the legitimate elected President of Ukraine. The United States claims Nicolas Maduro is not the legitimate elected President of Venezuela. (They had a practice run in 2020 about claiming election fraud and learned from…

“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.” Yogi Berra (sort of) America faces the most challenging crisis since the Civil War. Our government of checks and balances is now woefully unbalanced, controlled by those with checks…

Okay, class, we are going to start the day with a pop quiz. Simple two question test on current affairs. Ready? Who WAS Alejandro Carranza? Who IS Juan Orlando Hernández? Come on, now. This should be easy. Okay, times up.…

If you were to ask most Americans to name the longest war we have ever fought, they would say the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would be wrong by a factor of three. This one is still ongoing. The…

Coming up on the twelve-year-cycle I wrote about here, https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2019/01/24/an-american-twelve-year-memory-loss/, I wonder what 2028 will offer us? The last time I wrote about this, 2016, we had just elected Trump to his first term. Somehow we survived, chose not to…

We live in a time of chaos with a President whose behavior mirrors that of a petulant child rather than a statesman. The Oval Office, once a symbol of dignity and deliberation, becomes a stage for tantrums, impulsive decisions, and…

In one of the better examples of how failing to understand history can lead to repeating the same mistakes, we have this. 1960 The Catholics are Coming; The Catholics are Coming. 2025: The Muslims are Coming; the Muslims are Coming…

A lightly sarcastic post on Facebook about the ineptness of certain members of the Trump administration, illustrated with an image of the Three Stooges, brought an unusually virulent torrent of criticism from those who blindly and enthusiastically support this administration.…

If Mr. Trump has a unique talent as President it is the ability to ruin moments of true statesmanship with pettiness and vindictiveness. Mr. Trump’s bringing the Peace Agreement together in Gaza is a significant accomplishment. I dare say it…