Ben Tanosborn And the beat goes on!  More studies, more surveys, more statistics, more data to feed the ongoing fires in present day American cultural wars.  Apparently, it isn’t enough to have the constant bickering between the three conservative factions in American politics – ultra-right Tea-partiers, old-guard Republicans and Democrats – so we are now witnessing an attempt … [Read more...]

Ben Tanosborn It was the time to go to the barricades, not just unionized labor but the rest of America’s middle class that union activism had helped create.  It was the time to reverse the ill-advised globalist course in which Reagan and Bush Sr. had taken the nation.  And, as it later proved out, it was to be the very last chance. That was back in the 1992 presidential … [Read more...]

Ben Tanosborn It’s been almost two decades since the “Kitty Hawk incident” (1994) and the display of American naval power in the Yellow Sea.  Since then, no US aircraft carrier has had a presence north of the East China Sea.  But that will come to an end shortly as the U.S.S. George Washington is on its way there, not just to show military muscle to the North Korean regime but … [Read more...]

Ben Tanosborn Will US politicians kick the can down the road once again?  Need we ask? Of course they will, except each time that happens, the can gets heavier and travels fewer and fewer feet, giving us an indication that soon the can might be so heavy that they’ll bust their toes.  Or will they? No, it won’t be politicians but the people who’ll find themselves with the … [Read more...]

Ben Tanosborn I’ve always been convinced that all great conspiracies, at least those which might be regarded as successful, have one thing in common: no identifiable conspirators.  We may identify them, but will dare not accuse them for either lack of perceptible proof or the probable dire consequences we would face as disadvantaged accuser(s).  In these United States, two … [Read more...]