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Aug 18, 2025, 8:17 AM

The Great Threat: Woke Driven Acquiescence To Islamic Jihad

Between 1232 and 1243, Europe, and Western Civilization was on the cusp of coming out of the so called ‘dark ages’ and embarking on intellectual growth, the Renascence, and, eventually the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the age of ‘Reason’. This...

Jun 22, 2025, 6:14 AM

Biggest Boneheaded Military Hesitations in History

There are many examples of dumb attempts to fight a war that can cost a superior force the victory. While war is a nasty, deadly business, there some major factors to consider, if one has no choice but to...

Sep 23, 2024, 10:16 PM

The World Is Upside Down

I keep hearing from many that “the world is upside down”! In fact, it was a tune played by the British army band at Yorktown in 1781 when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, ending British rule. In fact, the world...

Aug 14, 2024, 9:07 PM

Geo-Political Status in Israel: An Analysis

Current conditions in the Middle East require a constant evaluation of ever-changing situations and possible outcomes. Broad sweeping predictions are no longer effective or accurate as global balances continue to erode standard thinking. The following points, although just generalizations,...

Jul 2, 2024, 7:08 PM

Obama is getting what he wanted

Blinken: Israel effectively lost sovereignty in North due to Hezbollah. The very nature of the wording of what Blinken is saying here, echoes the Obama worldview. Biden is but an afterthought here, as he is irrelevant. This is all Barack...

Apr 21, 2024, 6:43 PM

Let My People Go!

At the end of Dickens’ ‘Tale of Two Cities’, Sydney Carton states “It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done, and a far, far better place I go to than I have ever...

Oct 1, 2022, 8:18 AM

The Strangeness of Narratives

The tragedy of Hurricane Ian as it destroys the lives of people up and down the Florida coast and elsewhere, is a nightmare for the victims, and for our country as well. But I witnessed something most remarkable in...

Jun 23, 2022, 7:43 PM

Will the Eagle be lost?

Six weeks after female eagle is slain in Seward County, male and chick die, too. Sioux City Journal 6-22-22 The ancient Romans had a saying. “When the eagle is lost, honor is lost, when honor is lost, all is lost.” The...

Mar 25, 2019, 7:05 PM

The Sennacherib Effect

A Fictional Short Story

Mar 18, 2019, 6:57 PM

Exploring Purim as History and the Joy of Discovery

Purim has always been one of my favorite holidays. As a child…yes that was many years ago…the magical atmosphere of the carnival at our synagogue and sometimes at the Jewish Federation here in a small Midwestern city in Iowa,...

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Mitch is currently retired and an adjunct instructor at Western Iowa Technical Community College Sioux City Iowa USA.