James P. Pinkerton

Another figure from France’s past is looming larger: Joan of Arc (1412-1431) was the maiden who, as a teenager, rallied the French to fight off the English.  After winning battlefield victories, she was captured by the English and burned at the stake.   

The Art of the Deal comes to medicine, and with those deals, new breakthroughs and cures.  

In just a month, Project Hail Mary has rocketed to more than $616 million in box-office receipts; it’s the boffo breakout of this young year.  More than half-a-billion dollars–no wonder they’re already talking about sequels and spinoffs. 

Among the cultural and financial elites (defined as affluent people clustered in big cities with good access to/ownership of the Main Stream Media), there’s hostility to the police. 

James Carville’s latest rant shows a key difference not only between the two U.S. political parties but between worldviews.  On one side, a desire to destroy, on the other, a desire to build.

Revealing headline in MSM publication Politico: “Trump’s Greenland Gambit Has Broken Brains Across Washington.” 

The January 7 death of “warrior” Renee Good has drawn attention away from the issue of fraud in Minnesota–at least that’s what Gov. Tim Walz and other Democrats are hoping.

President Trump has long had his eye on Greenland, seeing not only its natural wealth, but also its strategic position, midway between Eurasia and North America.

As details about the accused assassin of Charlie Kirk emerge, we’re going to learn a lot about Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Furry Shades of Gray. These exotic digital underworlds seem to have bent the alleged shooter, and perhaps other young people as well, toward conspiracy to do evil.

Hard to believe it’s been 24 years since 9/11. The memories are so fresh: the planes crashing into buildings, the people fleeing, the firemen running—hundreds of them to their deaths—and the bells tolling. With the passage of nearly a quarter-century, it’s worth distilling some hard lessons.

What does Google think of Breitbart News?  I asked it. I took headlines from Breitbart and turned them into questions to Google.  The answers were revealing, showing us how Google—including its artificial intelligence (AI) programs—plans to persuade us to be obedient liberals. 

For the longest time, Democrats could gerrymander the states they controlled, while Republicans did not reciprocate. Those days are over.

The New York City mayoral race is the most interesting election contest this year, as it’s shaping up to be not just a battle over the socialism espoused by Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, but also as a proxy battle between President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama.

Elon Musk’s time in Washington, DC, is over; but the work he started at DOGE will live on despite the howls of his critics.

Don’t tell anyone, but Hollywood has made a movie that endorses Donald Trump’s worldview.  It’s about building amazing new structures.  It’s about the strength of creativity and can-do, not letting bureaucratic bosses get in the way.  It’s about protecting one’s own territory and keeping evil-doing foreigners out. 

On April 10, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Having brushed aside questions about the minor SNAFU known as  “Signalgate,”  Caine now has the task of helping President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth make the American military great again.

The Republican president had just replaced his unpopular Democratic predecessor.  A top issue for the new commander-in-chief: Ending a foreign war that had dragged on too long.  Looking at the problem with fresh eyes, the Republican made a deal to stop the fighting.  It wasn’t a glorious victory, but it wasn’t a defeat, either.  Most of all, it was an end to the bloodshed, allowing Americans to refocus on peaceful pursuits back home.

Trump wants to deploy a “next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next-generation aerial attacks,” adding it “will be made all in the USA.”

The American President, born to wealth in New York City, was known for both his tough talk and his populist appeal.  He also had a strong interest in Panama, seeing it is a key strategic and economic chokepoint that the U.S. must control, staving off any hostile power. 

An interesting November 15 headline appeared in Politico: “Washington’s lobbyists are stunned Trump chose RFK Jr.”  As the article detailed, the Swamp Dwellers were hoping for “a more conventional” choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Instead, they got Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and so they “are plotting how to stop the Senate from confirming him.”

The cynical joke about elections: It’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes. To which we can now add a third clause: In a presidential election, what counts is the ascertaining and tabulating of votes in the electoral college.