High Ground Underground

I was a Korean War baby, so the war has technically never ended for my entire life. Not to count the chickens before they've hatched, but this is heady stuff -- at least apparently the closest we've been in 68 years. It reminds me of the reunification of Germany. Of course it took some initiative by the S. Korean leader, and maybe the nuclear threats by the North to wake us all up. But surely the change from decades of pussycat diplomacy to "Fire and fury" by president Tr ump also woke up Kim. That, maybe together with the tightening sanctions, increasing defections, and Trump's saying that Kim was on a suicide mission -- I think he realized that the path he was on was just that. And the Korean Olympics was also timely. But with all their subterfuges and broken promises of the past, the standard for verification of denuclearization and peaceful intent needs to be much higher before any relaxation of sanctions, signing peace accords, demobilization,...

Contents Capitalism vs Socialism Prager University's huge social media impact Student anti-gun rallies Keep guessing (or conjuring) Hillary The media/Left double standard on Presidential promiscuity Administration chaos, or "business as usual?" The 1% State of the Union The House Intelligence Committee's FISA memo Politics in movies (reprise) The Schumer Shutdown Rebellion within the rebel state (California) Free Market Capitalism vs Socialism A recent email exchange between myself and a colleague: My colleague who seems to idealize the more socialistic countries, and think our tax rates should be higher, took issue with my statement that free-market capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other system, and that socialism/Communism has failed over and over. I happened to get later that day an email from Prager University featuring a new short video addressing that very issue, which I then shared with my colleagu...