I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture. Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty. The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred. Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose. We don’t hear much about lofty goals anymore – we only hear about “Candidate X must be stopped.” Sure Candidate X may need to be stopped because he or she is perceived to be opposed to some lofty goal, but somehow the lofty goal gets rapidly lost in the conversation, leaving only opposition. And with the lofty goal lost that opposition quickly turns to something much
Numbers are not supposed to lie. Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in...
After the two major, one of them deadly, chemical tank incidents of last week, the drumbeats continue to sound for increased regulation. On Monday I covered the cultural differences between the two...
Back in 2020, when they endorsed Joe Biden for president, I wrote an epitaph for the magazine Scientific American. Sure, it is still being published, but it is now just another Trump bashing bit of...
Best as I can tell, everybody has heard about the near disaster related to a tank in Garden Grove, CA. The emergency is subsided, the evacuation over. The predicted explosion or major release...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune called into the program today to talk about the need for the entire GOP to rally behind Texas Senate GOP nominee Ken Paxton after Paxton’s win over Senator Cornyn in Tuesday’s primary run-off: Transcript: HH: Pleased to welcome now the leader of the United States Senate,...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune returned to the program today: Transcript: HH: There’s a lot to cover today, but I’m very, very grateful that the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, John Thune, has joined me this morning. Senator, welcome back. Good to have you. I believe it is the case that when you...
Hugh discusses Asia’s premier defence summit, the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and Graham Platner with Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and...
Hugh discusses Iran, Graham Platner, and New Jersey House candidate, Adam Hamawy who testified for the defense at the Blind Sheikh’s 1995 terrorism trial, Vic Matus, Arts & Culture Editor,...
Hugh discusses Iran, China, and Armenia, and talks with Senator Tom Cotton, Intelligence Committee Chair, author of, “Sacred Duty,” Sam Brownback, author, “China’s War on Faith,” former...