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Marxist Propaganda and Economic Claptrap in the History Department
Karl Marx (1818-1883) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) First I’ll readily admit that I know very little about Japanese history, Capitalistic, Imperial, or otherwise. I do however know something about...
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White Ensign and Navy Jack
English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I notice in the British news that tensions with Spain over Gibraltar are high again, and that soon a task group of the Royal...
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Fracking Freedom
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: A new ‘Battle of Britain’? Caving in to the anti-fracking fanatics is a craven surrender to mob rule | Mail Online This may be the silly season, but we should be rubbing our eyes in...
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The Battle Of Crécy, 1346
Josuapundit wants to remind you that 667 years ago the unmatched superiority of the noble over the common man ended. As should surprise no one, it was ended by the English. Here’s the story. The Battle...
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End of an Era
California Highway Patrol (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m a bit tired of pontificating about Syria and war and such, so let’s talk about something else, shall we My friends over at Ancestral Yuba...
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You Really Ought To Go Home
You know there is a group of Americans, and yes, they are epitomized by fighter pilots, whose whole ethos is exemplified by getting it done, quietly and real quick. For these people, it’s all about...
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Arsenal of Democracy
We often speak here of how the United States became the indispensable power. This was true long before our military became pre-eminent. It actually became true somewhere around the turn of the...
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Break the Paradigm
The frontispiece of the book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You know for 130 years now, the federal government has had the civil service. It began with the Civil Service Act under...
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Ulfberht: Viking Technology
An SVG version of this image. Created with Adobe Illustrator CS3. Based on the blank Europe map available on the Commons. The enclosed legend is as follows: eighth centuries ninth centuries tenth...
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“Failure Is ALWAYS an Option”
Yesterday, Moe Lane had post that talked about “Failure not being an option”. It’s a fantasy, as anybody who does real stuff can tell you. We all like to talk about the space program in the 60s, me...
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Then and Now
Wright Flyer III de 1905 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Then 110 years ago today, a plan came together. A couple of bicycle mechanic from Dayton, Ohio studied some stuff, worked hard, applied what they...
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All Aboard
One of my favorite writers and bloggers, Rachel Charmley of Changing Skin and other stories ( you should follow her blog, if you like good fiction) asked me the other day what it is like to travel on...
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Autonomous Cars? Really? Why?
Shelley, the autonomous race car (Photo credit: Saad Faruque) So are you excited about what they’re calling ‘Autonomous Cars’? Personally I think them a horrible idea. First, the more complex you make...
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Why Do I Write So Much About History?
Edmund Burke Image via Wikipedia [Yesterday we ran one of Jessica's older posts and today we're going to represent one of mine, not (entirely) because I'm lazy but, because they have kept their...
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Who We Really Are…On Father’s Day
This is based on an article from Tracie Louise Photography from a couple of years ago and wanted to add quite a lot for Father’s Day. Read her work, it made my monitor blurry, not many do that. I had...
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Reflections on a Train Trip
[This was the very first post on Nebraska Energy Observer, and I doubt many have seen it. So I thought for the third anniversary of the blog, which is today, I would bring it back. I hope you enjoy it,...
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Dodging Bullets
#185189957 / gettyimages.com While dodging bullets is not a recommended practice, it is considered far superior to not dodging bullets. What is he talking about?, I hear. This, apparently we got lucky...
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All Gone
At 08:15:15L on 06 August 1945, the Enola Gay, dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, and many things changed. Strangely, other than being the first use of an atomic weapon in war, there was actually little...
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Computer Programming in the Curriculum? K-12? Really?
This is interesting, apparently starting next fall every student in Great Britain, from K through 12 will start to learn coding. I see the point, of course, but I think this may well be misguided....
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Media Companies Spin Off Newspapers, to Uncertain Futures – NYTimes.com
English: Headline of the New York Times June-29-1914 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is quite interesting, in a ‘I told you so’ sort of way. It seems that the big media companies are finding it quite...
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