Category: World News

When it comes to China, I blame the giant panda bears

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Bookworm

I know this sounds crazy, but I think China’s identification with giant pandas leads too many to think the CCP is as harmless as those cute bears.

Down Under, a world asunder thanks to COVID and leftism

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Bookworm

This is a guest post from “Nodrog,” my Australian friend, bemoaning the state of his home country.

What’s happening in Ukraine is not genocide

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Bookworm

What’s happening to Ukraine’s civilian population is terrible and tragic, but it’s not genocide. You’ve probably noticed the word “genocide” being thrown around with abandon in Ukraine. President Zelensky, who is Jewish and whose grandfather lost his family to the Holocaust, used it just recently: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on

Still further thoughts on Ukraine

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Bookworm

A lot of information ends up in my lap and it is confusing me about Ukraine, rather than clarifying things. I’m not evolving on Ukraine, I’m de-volving. The more information comes my way the more I know only two things with certainty: I’m deeply confused and I’m being manipulated. At

Biden, Ukraine, and Al Capone’s vault

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by Bookworm

If Biden looks weak regarding Ukraine (and, boy, does he), he did it to himself, plus a few other thoughts. (Note: This site is going to look funny and function badly for a day or two as I go through the plugins trying to find which is the one messing

Revised thoughts on Ukraine *UPDATED

Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 by Bookworm

Watching Putin’s blitzkrieg, I realize that I have to revise my whole view of things. My fundamental principles have remained unchanged: America shouldn’t be the world’s policeman and it’s absolutely horrific to think of sending America’s young men to war with Biden as the Commander-in-Chief and his woke Pentagon calling

Cost Plus World Market’s hypocritical virtue signaling

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Bookworm

The hypocritical climate-change virtue signaling at Cost Plus would be funny if it didn’t weaken America and strengthen China. I grew up as a Cost Plus child. We used to shop at the original store in Fisherman’s Wharf (where it opened in 1958), although beginning sometime in the 1960s, we

A sad letter from England

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Bookworm

A friend says England is quite a bit the worse of COVID wear. I believe that because no country can survive endless, cyclical lockdowns. One of the joys of the internet is that I’ve reconnected with a very dear friend of mine from England. She is an incredible letter writer

Questions, please, for interviewing an Iranian physician

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Bookworm

I may have an opportunity to ask questions of a physician from Iran. He’s willing to talk about COVID as well as medicine in general. If this comes to anything, I need to use this opportunity wisely and ask the most intelligent questions I can. To me, figuring out how

It’s not just that wokeists are evil; they’re also terribly uninformed

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Bookworm

As a North Carolina professor shows, wokeists aren’t merely evil (although they are very evil). They are also grossly ignorant. The University of North Carolina, a taxpayer-funded institution, teaches a course called “Global Whiteness.” That’s wrong right off the bat and illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It’s hate-filled

Afghanistan v. Abortion: What really riles Democrats

Posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 by Bookworm

Having the Texas abortion issue arise on the heels of the Afghanistan debacle has been illuminating, to say the least. I haven’t written for a while because I find myself with surprisingly little to say. I’ve always written to share information and, to the extent I occasionally have them, insights.

The shoe is on the other foot — and we need to kick some butt with it

Posted on August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 by Bookworm

We need to rub Democrats’ noses in the fact that they are responsible for the horrors in Afghanistan, as well as the decay in the U.S. On January 7, one day after the protest at the Capitol, I got a text from my closest friend of twenty years. Before I

Afghanistan: My take on what’s happening there and at home

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 by Bookworm

The debacle in Afghanistan makes it impossible to ignore Joe’s malevolent incompetence and reveals who’s paying attention — and who’s not. There are no words for what’s happening in Afghanistan. We are abandoning a nation to Stone Age tribal warlords who operate under the same rules that have driven Stone

A letter from South Africa and our Second Amendment

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 by Bookworm

A letter from South Africa describing citizen self-defense provides all the proof you need to defend the Second Amendment. A South African friend sent me a letter that is making the rounds amongst fellow South Africans. If you ever wanted to have facts to rebut leftists who claim there is

Lindsey Graham’s talk about the current Israeli-Arab conflict

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 by Bookworm

Lindsey Graham strongly supports Israel and is proud to say it out loud. Kudos to him for doing so! On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to hear Sen. Lindsey Graham when he spoke to a packed auditorium at the beautiful Chabad of Charleston, South Carolina. It was refreshing to hear