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Living in the Bad Old Days.
Baby, It’s cold outside, even in Florida Most of you, like me, remember living through the bad old days – of the 1970s. You know unaffordable heating, waiting in line for gas (every other day) for gas...
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The Triumph of American Oil
If you remember the cold war, America won it when we buckled down, built up the military threatening the Soviets when technological change they couldn’t deal with, and simply outproducing them into...
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Of Cars and Definitions of Efficiency
Yesterday, I was reading an article at PA Pundits, that highlighted that CAFE mileage standards, which were implemented during the oil crisis during the seventies, have rather severely distorted the...
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Horsepower and the Police
Things that can’t go on, don’t. We all know that, but we don’t have to like it. In my lifetime, America has had two types of car guys, normal guys that like to go fast, and cops that like to go fast –...
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RAF Centenary 1918–2018
This came to me from The Churchill Centre, as it may have to some of you, by Robert Courts The Mall leading from Buckingham Palace to Admiralty Arch is alive with red, white, and blue. Union Jacks...
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Severing the Future from the Past
There is a really good piece from Scot S. Powell up at The American Spectator, and you really should read it. Some excerpts: […] The Reformation and Renaissance set in motion a cultural awakening as...
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A Free Man and Boring Pigs
First a note: Tommy Robinson is out on bail, to be retried at a later date. It’s a victory worth celebrating, but not a complete one. The court said this: In the ruling, the lord chief justice quashed...
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Making American Steel Great Again
If one was to drive up Broadway (the main street) in Gary, Indiana, probably not a recommended thing these days, although my mother and sisters used to do their Christmas shopping there saying it was...
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Ripples in the Bricks
The title refers to a column in the Purdue Exponent when I was there, and indeed we are going to talk about Purdue today. It’s also mostly a good news post, because we are overdue for one, in my...
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THAT’S ZINNCREDIBLE
Steven Hayward over at PowerLine published an article Monday about Sam Weinberg’s review of Howard Zinn’s History of the American People in all its shabbiness. Steven says this. I’ve never bothered to...
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Totenfest, All Saints Day, Heroes and Saints
I see a fair number of you have been reading this, from back in 2012, so let’s bring it forward for the rest. It’s one of the few where I talk about my family, and it goes to the purpose of All Saints...
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SIOP
Let’s do a bit of not so long ago history. If you were paying attention in the sixties and seventies you may have heard the word SIOP. Well, not really a word, it’s an acronym for Single Integrated...
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A Boondoggle in Hoosierland
From James Taylor at American Spectator. Under a renewable energy proposal from Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), Indiana consumers would face a 12 percent electricity rate hike, which...
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The Fires This Time
The wildfires in California seem to be getting worse, and maybe they are. Why? Ila;ways suspected the answer and here it is. from Bill Croke in The American Spectator. In August, 1910, a huge fire...
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All Aboard! Trains Aren’t Planes!
Salena Zito has some thoughts about getting there by train. They’re good thoughts. PITTSBURGH — For nearly a quarter of a century, Amtrak’s Capitol Limited route has taken me from my beloved hometown...
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Welp, my internet went down quite early this morning, and I just got it up. But I’ve nothing prepared, so… I’ve had this in my files waiting for an opportunity to share it. It’s one of the great...
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American Historic Moments; Then and Now
Don Troiani- “The Last Salute” HAP Our friend, Practically Historical, reminds us that 154 years ago today General John B Gordon (seven times wounded, including 5 Minnie balls at Antietam) by order of...
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Memorial Day Weekend
I’m going to be out most of the day, supervising a job, so entertain yourselves, and I’ll catch up later. Well, we’ve made it to the traditional start of an American summer, Memorial Day. We’ll be...
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50 Years Ago Today
It really was 50 years ago today that this happened. That Saturn V rocket, the most powerful vehicle ever built by man, launched three Americans, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins into...
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Trinity, 74 Years On
Trinity from the Department of Defense On Tuesday we spoke of Americans on the moon, and safely home again. And by the way, the first thing done on the moon that day, 50 years ago, was to thank God and...
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