I have lived in California for more than four years, having married a lifelong California girl a while back, having come here after retiring from being a college economics professor in Western Maryland at the end of 2021. Presently, we live in Roseville, a city of nearly 150,000 that has been called one of the country’s most livable cities.

7 May 2026

An alleged suicide note, handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, was found by the late financier's cellmate back in 2019. A federal judge has just released the note to the public.

7 May 2026

Israel's strike on cities in Lebanon continue despite the ceasefire. Some of the more recent attacks have hit a commercial center in the southern part of the country and buildings in Beirut’s suburbs.

7 May 2026

An evangelical preacher out of Tennessee, Perry Stone, claimed on a podcast that government officials held a secret briefing for pastors. Religious leaders were allegedly urged by the ruling class to prepare their congregations for the imminent release of information about alien life and unidentified spacecraft, or UFOs (unidentified flying objects).

7 May 2026

Axios reports that the White House is nearing a preliminary deal with Iran to end the war, as Trump's post appears to offer an olive branch.

7 May 2026

We live at a time when deception is running rampant. Iran is not telling the truth about what is going on in the Strait of Hormuz. Neither is the Pentagon. On Monday, a few commercial vessels were able to get through the Strait. On Tuesday, that number dropped to zero. That isn’t progress. In fact, that is the opposite of progress. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is the greatest threat to the global economy that I have seen in my entire lifetime. If it is not reopened soon, it will be an unprecedented catastrophe for the entire world.

6 May 2026

With all the focus being on fuel prices as the Strait of Hormuz crisis expands, it was easy to forget that another war continues to rage and the United States continues to fund it. Washington has approved a bomb deal for Ukraine as it continues to blow through money on its own war with Iran.

6 May 2026

Iran launched its first missile and drone attack on the United Arab Emirates since a ceasefire with the United States took effect on April 8th. It also fired two drones at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, UAE authorities said Monday.

6 May 2026

United States President Donald Trump has temporarily put "Project Freedom" on hold, pausing military escorts in the Strait of Hormuz. He said that the blockade of Iranian ports will “remain in full force and effect” until a final agreement with Tehran is reached.

6 May 2026

In January of 1917, V.I. Lenin was disappointed. He was living in exile in Zurich, having failed to bring about a communist revolution in Russia in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Yet, being a committed revolutionary, he refused to declare defeat. In a speech to socialists on January 22, Lenin described the failure to win a decisive battle against the Russian regime as a “temporary defeat.” Nonetheless, he did not know when a similar opportunity might arise, and he told his audience: 

6 May 2026