by Fred Reed
I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the Us is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and catastrophic miscalculations in fighting small powers, picking a fight with what, increasingly, is again becoming the Middle Kingdom seems less than …
Donald Trump says that he will deport perhaps twenty million illegal aliens. Can he? Legally, yes. Illegals are deportable. Polls show that a great many Americans favor the idea. But practically? If we accept an intermediate guesstimate of sixteen million, deporting them during Trump’s tenure of four years would require ejecting four million per year, …
How time flies, said Fred with scintillating originality. When I was a young lad in rural Virginia in the mid-Sixties, the only thing digital was the local drive-in movie, known colloquially as the Finger bowl. Now the world runneth over with bits and bytes and screens and all. Regarding which: Much of the unpleasantness of …