Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
Mike Johnson, the smooth-talking Congressman from Louisiana, is our nation’s 56th Speaker of the House. He entered Congress on January 3, 2017. Before then, he served in the Louisiana legislature and worked for a conservative Christian group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. The four most vulnerable states due to the Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act,…
President Trump recently called in the cavalry to rescue Washington, DC. A member of his DOGE squad (aka, Big Balls…that’s what Trump calls him) was mugged, and Trump had an excuse to call in the National Guard to make Washington safe again. He claimed he has a mandate to reduce the violent crimes in this…
I have visited the Rust Belt many times. I drove through Youngstown, Ohio, in 1970 and 2005. I have seen whole neighborhoods bulldozed. The same thing happened in Michigan and other Rust Belt states. I understand the pain and the loss. So, what happened? America still produces lots of mechanical and industrial engineers. We still…
Beliefs about Artificial Intelligence How does everyone feel about artificial intelligence (AI)? AI has been around since the mid-1950s. I asked my tech guru in the 1970s to define AI, and he responded, “It’s using a computer to do things we haven’t done before.” In the beginning, one of the goals of AI was to…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will host an event on the White House lawn on July 4, 2026, to honor the sacrifices of founding fathers like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Madison. The fights will be conducted inside an octagon-shaped metal chain-link fence. The cage will be about thirty feet in diameter and…
Instead of “firing up” or improving American capitalism, President Trump is firing or humbling America’s CEOs. Instead of continuing or improving the capitalism that energized America for 250 years, Trump is transforming it into some version of state capitalism. Wikipedia defines state capitalism as “An economic system in which the state acts as a dominant…
Many people do not have the time or inclination to read posts. So, I am adding short videos in place of or in addition to my posts that contain text and images. The following is a video about how confusion becomes the norm, which is posted on YouTube.
Many people do not have the time or inclination to read posts. So, I am adding short videos in place of or in addition to my posts that contain text and images. The following is a video about political identity now posted on YouTube.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed Alice in a languid, sleepy voice. “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was…
The translation of the news flash in Spanish is “Dictatorships Do Not Function.” For anyone who believes that authoritarian regimes are good for anyone but the dictator and his family, there is a perfect example to bet against authoritarians. The BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, and South Korea’s intelligence service—consistently cite an initial North Korean deployment…