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World wars as a category may be expanded to include wars among European nations that were carried around the world through naval actions and colonial infighting. Certainly the competition between… Read more

President Trump plans to attack states right’s to set automobile exhaust quality standards. Plainly that is taking federalism too far and in the wrong direction. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-23/trump-is-said-to-seek-repeal-of-california-s-smog-fighting-power Read more

Reading an article in Quanta mag on-line https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/ I discovered a post-doc mathematician looking for a job in her field of Octonions and the standard model. Apparently some PhDs have a… Read more

In the lead up to the Iraq war President Saddam Hussein threatened the Mother of All Battles would follow U.S. military regime change intervention in his nation. History shows that… Read more

President Trump should directly end the Dept. of Energy’s silly, troll-like plan to give the coal and nuclear power industries $34 billion. Neither industry is good for national security (unless… Read more

Was the U.S.A. shaken by 9–11? The United States isn’t generally attacked at home. President Clinton had bragged after creating a new military intelligence super-agency that it would not be… Read more

Venezuela might surge into all those vacated nations and conquer the Eastern Hemisphere. The Swiss might quit being neutral and cut a deal with Cubans to create a vast right… Read more

The era of the American dream as it pertained to post-World War Two expansion for the poor and middle class with good jobs and the ability to afford a home… Read more

Apparently land east of the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea is regarded as Asian. Indian is Asian yet not so as it is a sub-continent. American farmers might think of… Read more

Scientists studying the carbon sequestration cycle of the ocean have looked at micro-organisms in the ocean’s depths that consume phytoplankton falling dead from higher up that have consumed carbon.  When… Read more