If Democrats were expecting an electoral boost from the proceedings of the January 6 Select Committee, it seems they’re destined for disappointment. And why is that? After all, testimony so far has cast a less-than-flattering light on Donald Trump and his scurvy minions. Ah, but there was other news on January 6, 2021. That day, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was $2.00 (regular) and $2.15 (premium). For diesel, the average price per gallon was $2.20. Any questions…?
Sure, anybody can take a spill, as Joe Biden did yesterday. But most us need not worry too much about the optics. Not so with our stumble-bum president, however. Let’s just say that a chief executive in his late seventies, already burdened with a reputation for cognitive decline, fabulism, incoherence and general incompetence, shouldn’t be allowed on a bicycle. What on earth was Dr. Jill thinking…?
Steve Phillips of that reliably Bolshevik rag, The Nation, wants us to remember that nothing is inevitable. So all the signs may point to a Democrat debacle in the upcoming midterm election, but it doesn’t have to be that way! After all, in the 1998 midterms, the Dems actually gained seats. Okay, sure, that was a quarter of a century ago, Bill Clinton was president, there was no such thing as the Squad, and a pound of ground sirloin wasn’t worth its weight in platinum. But yeah, the Dems could gain seats in the House this year…and I could hit the lottery for a few million…
Wednesday, June 22, 2022, will mark the seventy-eighth anniversary of the launch of Operation Bagration and the subsequent Battle of Byelorussia, the Red Army offensive that smashed German Army Group Center, inflicting 450,000 casualties—a full quarter of the German Army on the Eastern Front. Together with the Battle of Normandy, in which the Germans suffered some 400,000 casualties, Bagration sealed the fate of Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich. Though Germany was to fight on for eight more months, with these twin victories the Grand Alliance had effectively won the war. Bagration was named after General Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, a Russian hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812).
Today is Father’s Day and as always I find myself thinking of my father, George W. Gregg Sr., who passed away in 1988 at the too-young age of sixty-six. Here he is in 1943, left, with his brother Robert and his father William. The brothers, both of whom were serving in the Atlantic, Dad in the Coast Guard, Uncle Bob in the Navy, had the good luck to get leave at the same time. All gone now, but definitely not forgotten…