In the entire response to Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine, from the U.S, U.K., and E.U. and similarly aligned countries have said a great many things that are necessary and have provided much assistance. Additionally, there are the sanctions, the crackdown on the oligarchs, the economic and diplomatic isolation that if sustained, would […]

For millennia, walking or harnessing an animal was the only means of traveling on land. Heating for survival, comfort, and for countless industrial applications when needed was made by burning combustibles that are by today’s standards, the worst polluters, and sources of carbon. A hundred years of innovation with various fossil fuels resulted in vastly […]

I’ve avoided bringing local politics into Northeast Reader (a separate project may soon fill that void) but this topic has national implications and segues into something much broader. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is finishing out his second and final term. He’s been very popular throughout most of his tenure and currently ranks as third most […]

When I was coming of age in the 70s, a Soviet dissident, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn gained hard earned notoriety as a contemporary prophet after surviving some of the worst of his country’s oppression under communism. His enormous story, ‘Gulag Archipelago’ was published in 1973. A shorter more readable rendition, ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan […]

With the imminent purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, I’m finally in, cautiously. Originally, I stayed out because of its reputation as a snake pit. Ain’t no time for that. Over the years, I choose to at least selectively engage with the perimeter of some progressives on other social media even though my message is […]