The President is winning the geopolitical battle with China Francis Pike, The Spectator June 22 2026 Almost all media commentators seem convinced that Donald Trump’s foreign policy in his second term is a disaster. He is bogged down in Iran, snookered in Ukraine, his tariff agenda has failed and he has alienated his NATO allies. But this consensus has been too hastily formed. Looking at the bigger global picture, Trump’s foreign policy has been a spectacular success. Take the

The story below came out one year before the first Trump election. You know the one where the media and every single poll had Hillary crushing it. It explained why the polling model was broken. They got it right. Why polling is a dead science? Most people no longer use landlines (if they do, they block spam calls) making a pollster's job miserable. They're ability to find a representative sample is hard. GOP (or right leaning) voters tend to be less likely to answer a cell

What a load of crap. We just went in, took out two levels of the nation's leadship, blew up 85% of it's weaponry, put it's nuclear program back years and managed to avoid civilian casualties. We did this without asking China and established our military supremacy not to mention our control over the world supply of oil. We can go back there anytime we want and bomb the sheet out of them again. Go ahead and complain if you want. I put this one in the win column. Both sides of

I did a little work using Claude. Globally things don't look that bad. This is because Africa and India are cranking out kids (which helps round out the numbers) The chart draws on UN World Population Prospects 2024 data and projections. A few things stand out: The most dramatic shift is in the over-65 cohort, which roughly doubles from about 8% in 2010 to nearly 17% by 2050 — a consequence of aging baby boomers in the West and rapidly rising life expectancy globally. The UN

It's good to see the NY Times is breaking new ground on virtue signaling! https://cooking.nytimes.com/68861692-nyt-cooking/44325010-juneteenth-recipes?campaign_id=58&emc=edit_ck_20260616&instance_id=177111&nl=cooking&regi_id=45469457&segment_id=221599&user_id=8e401d9416e7f1a3e7a1c03800630af5